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Oak Island Town Council took advantage of an opportunity to buy more sand as part of its ongoing beach renourishment project. Council voted 4-1 at the board’s Dec. 9 monthly meeting to approve a pair of contracts totaling $3,070,300 that will bring more than 110,000 additional cubic yards of sand to two pre-selected sections of… Read More
The Town of Nags Head initiated the procurement process for its next beach nourishment project in fall 2025, with bids officially opened on November 13, 2025. Three qualified dredging contractors submitted proposals, offering options for construction during the summer 2026 or summer 2027 work windows. At its December 17, 2025 meeting, the Nags Head Board… Read More
Marco Island will not pursue a public/private partnership that would have started with a study about getting the city’s gunky canals dredged and building mangrove islands with the dug-up materials. Engineers hired by the city examined an unsolicited proposal for a partnership with Earthwerks Land Improvement and Development Corp. and said the idea of dredging and building… Read More
WPTV’s Ange Toussaint digs into the restoration project aimed at reversing severe erosion and is critical to protecting homes, infrastructure and wildlife habitat DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — A $19.2 million beach restoration project aimed at reversing severe erosion along Delray Beach’s shoreline is set to begin in the coming weeks, a project city leaders said… Read More
PETERSBURG, Fla. — The City of St. Petersburg says a stormwater study is a direct result of summer walking tours held weeks ago. Its public works department wanted to hear directly from residents about the flooding problems in their neighborhood. The city now says it will conduct a study to dredge the shallow canals in… Read More
BAY COUNTY, Fla. – A project to restore local bays and estuaries is moving into the next phase. The Coastal Conservation Association of Florida has just completed Phase One of the St. Andrews Bay project. They completed the $1 million job in September, installing close to 25,000 sediment tubes and more than 49,000 nursery-grown seagrass… Read More
Contact: coastal@la.gov BATON ROUGE, La. – The Deepwater Horizon Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has posted a video recording of its 2025 Annual Update. This update serves as the Trustees’ annual meeting. The video includes information about the current status of funding and the progress made in planning and project implementation in the last year. The Trustees will take public comment on… Read More
PORTLAND – A long-awaited dredging project is underway to keep Portland Harbor clear. A dredging boat will call Portland Harbor home for the next several months, working to clear out more than 40 marine sites along Portland’s waterfront, many of which have been untouched for the past 70 years. “This is meant to be a… Read More
The flooding comes a month after feds declined request to dredge Leaders around Cowlitz County said Friday that sediment from Mount St. Helens worsened flooding along the Cowlitz River and called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start dredging it — a request the Corps has long avoided. Millions of tons of sediment from… Read More
Protecting the headwaters of Bulow Creek from development’s proximity went from a hope to a plan Monday as the Flagler County Commission voted 5-0 to ratify an application process seeking several million dollars from Florida Forever, the state’s conservation fund, to buy 153 acres around the creek near Flagler Beach. To improve and accelerate chances… Read More
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announces grants from its Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced the award of more than $57 million in obligations from its Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF) for five new projects and three amendments in the states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. This… Read More
Annapolis, MD – Anne Arundel County and the Resilience Authority of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County announced today that they have been awarded a $1,007,500 National Coastal Resilience Fund grant, leveraging $2,916,000 in matching funds, to complete final designs for three restoration sites that will use Regional Sediment Management (RSM) to rebuild and protect coastal… Read More
MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama State Sen. Chris Elliott has confirmed he is working on legislation to ban thin layer dredge material placement, a practice that has faced criticism for its environmental impact on the bay’s ecosystem. It’s called “thin layer placement” — those who are against it call it “mud dumping” and say it’s destroying Mobile Bay’s… Read More
Washington, D.C. Opening remarks, as prepared, of Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Mike Ezell (R-MS) from today’s hearing, entitled “Changes in Maritime Technology: Can the Coast Guard Keep Up?”: The maritime industry is undergoing a rapid period of transformation, including the adoption of autonomous technology and robotics that could transform the sector, as… Read More
After nearly a decade of planning and delays, work to dredge sediment from the bottom of the Newport Harbor has begun. The project, contracted through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and co-managed with the city of Newport Beach, will remove sediment that flows down the watershed and has built up through the decades to… Read More