The Port of Salisbury will be ready for scheduled maintenance dredging, helping protect a key economic asset and support the region’s maritime economy, following the completion of Phase Two of Wicomico County’s dredge material recovery and relocation program. The project moved another 110,000 cubic yards of dredge material from the Sharp’s Point Dredge Management Facility to… Read More
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) projects are moving forward, thanks to a state-federal partnership. On July 21, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District signed an agreement to expedite construction of a seepage management pump station (part of the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir project) and the Blue Shanty Flow… Read More
These silted up channels have dramatically reduced capacity to move floodwater through the delta and into the San Francisco Bay It’s January 2027, and for the last few months, a super El Nino has already delivered torrential rains to the Pacific Coast of North America. California’s reservoirs have been releasing record quantities of water to preserve… Read More
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Moore today toured the progress being made on the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild with members of the Maryland congressional delegation and other congressional leaders to highlight the critical importance of the bridge both to the State and to the entire nation. The governor was joined by Chair of the Senate Environment… Read More
By Alan Bosworth The US Army Corps of Engineers’ Buffalo District has begun dredging Buffalo Harbor to maintain safe navigation for commercial vessels, cruise ships and recreational boaters on Lake Erie under a $2.3 million contract awarded to Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction in April. The project will remove about 190,000 cubic yards (145,265 cubic metres)… Read More
By: Julianne Grohowski ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — Every year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges the mouth of the St. Joseph River in St. Joseph, but this year, a new dredging technique has created a new peninsula just south of Silver Beach. Doug Krafft, the U.S. Engineering Research and Development Center Research Civil Engineer explains… Read More
By: Nick Broadway NAGS HEAD, N.C. (WAVY) — The Herculean effort of beach nourishment continues along a several mile stretch of Nags Head, including the area around Jennette’s Pier, where crews are storing the rest of the large pipes and construction equipment. “It’s been pretty crazy, I’ve seen all the pipes,” said one visitor. “Sand… Read More
By Carrie Speranza Large, colorful homes propped up on tall stilts dot much of the 120 miles of North Carolina’s skinny and sandy Outer Banks. The coastal homes have long faced bright blue waves largely undeterred, with the stilts dug in deep enough to keep the structures standing amid swells and storms. There have been some… Read More
By Kristin Danley-Greiner, HARFORD COUNTY, MD — Officials announced Monday that Harford County has been awarded $1.5 million from Maryland’s fiscal year 2027 Waterway Improvement Fund for the maintenance dredging of the Gunpowder River and Taylor Creek in Joppatowne. The project – designed to improve public boating access and public safety – is expected to… Read More
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 15 July 2026 – The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has announced that TerraMarine, a consortium including Van Oord, Aecon Group, FlatironDragados Canada and Carlson Construction Group, has been selected as the preferred contractor for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 – Landmass and Wharf progressive design-build project in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. The… Read More
An impressive aerial view of the Stuyvesant at work in Corpus Christi, Texas, supporting the Corpus Christi Entrance Channel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District. During the first half of 2026, The Dutra Group removed more than 3 million cubic yards of material to help maintain safe and efficient navigation through this… Read More
By Pat Sharkey BARNEGAT BAY, NJ — A major navigation and infrastructure initiative is officially underway in Ocean County this weekend. The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has launched its highly anticipated Beach Haven West dredging project, a move designed to clear vital waterways but one that will require local mariners to alter their usual routines…. Read More
By Anthony Evangelista OCEAN CITY, Md. – A federal dredging vessel is expected to spend about two weeks removing sand from the Ocean City Inlet, where marina officials say shallow water has caused boats to run aground and created concerns for visiting mariners. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
By Aaron Styza – St. Pete Catalyst “When anyone else needs sand, come to this location and grab it.” Nearly five months after Bayside Dredging LLC cleared thousands of cubic yards of sand from Johns Pass, Hubbard’s Marina owner Dylan Hubbard says boaters are safer — but the fix may not last. According to coastal scientists,… Read More
By:Joy Crist As Dare County prepares to place approximately 2 million cubic yards of sand along Buxton’s oceanfront and repair the southernmost of the village’s three Navy-built groins, the projects represent the latest chapter in a shoreline-management effort that stretches back decades. Sand placement is currently expected to begin in late July and continue for… Read More