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DNREC can no longer shoulder the $10 million to $15 million annual burden of beach replenishment in the state, according to Jesse Hayden, environmental program administrator for DNREC’s shoreline and waterway management division. The agency has just launched a study to seek new funding sources, including potential cost-shares with local beach towns, and officials announced… Read More
Bulldozers are moving mounds of sand to renourish Emerald Isle Beach. Crews with heavy machinery are building up the sand around the point of the island – and down the beach to Doe Drive. Officials say an Army Corps of Engineers contractor is dredging 200-thousand cubic yards of sand out of the nearby waterway crossing… Read More
SAN CLEMENTE— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has informed the city that it is actively assessing various possibilities to resume the supply of sand. Dredging operations commenced on Dec. 21 with the contractor delivering approximately ten loads, mainly consisting of cobble, gravel and shell fragments, accompanied by some sand. However, operations within the… Read More
RYE, NY — The winter dredging work in Rye Marina is complete. The City of Rye has completed the dredging project at the Marina. Workers are now replacing the old Marina pilings and reinstalling the docks. This is expected to be completed by mid-February. The area is now being surveyed to determine the exact amount… Read More
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Oceanside City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the Re:Beach Oceanside project at a workshop. The innovative program is aimed at restoring sand to Oceanside’s beaches. On Wednesday, North County leaders got together to rally support. “If you look behind us right now, you can see the water coming all… Read More
New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a bulkhead to protect itself, ruling that no one is in imminent danger. The state Department of Environmental Protection told North Wildwood on Wednesday it will not give permission to the city to build a steel… Read More
Oceanside’s City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to proceed with a sand replenishment and retention project that includes pumping nearly a million cubic yards of sand from offshore deposits onto the beach and holding it there with two artificial headlands. The next steps for the “speed bumps” idea will be to complete the final engineering and… Read More
Michels Construction Inc. is currently undertaking dredging the Scarborough River, a federal project initiated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredging, which began Nov. 13, aims to remove approximately 130,000 cubic yards of sandy sediment, improving navigational conditions for commercial fishing and recreational vessel traffic as part of the Scarborough River Federal… Read More
Baltimore’s beloved Mr. Trash Wheel and its family reached a major milestone last year: the collection of over 1 million pounds of litter and debris from the city’s waterways. The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore credits the historic milestone to a second consecutive year of operating four wheels, as well as an increase in winter rainfall… Read More
“Season” in Southwest Florida means a bevy of activities in our coastal communities. Chief among them: beach trips. The beach is one of our most celebrated natural resources, and rightly so. We know beaches as tourist magnets and economic drivers. But we less often consider the beach as habitat, a wildlife corridor spanning over 800… Read More
Recent storm impacts did not disrupt the beginning of construction for the Army Corps beach sand project in mid January, which will add 700,000 cubic yards of sand along the beaches in Solana Beach, city officials said during a Jan. 24 council meeting. The project is the culmination of a plan that started in 2000…. Read More
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When governments find themselves fighting the threat of coastal erosion, their default response tends to be pretty simple: If sand is disappearing from a beach, they pump in more sand to replace it. This strategy, known as “beach nourishment,” has become a cornerstone of coastal defenses around the world, complementing hard structures like sea walls…. Read More
By Peter Zeihan on February 1, 2024 No matter how much bubble wrap and caution tape we slap onto global maritime shipping, the industry has found itself in quite a predicament. Despite the Ukraine War, a drought impacting the Panama Canal, Houthi attacks in Yemen, widespread piracy, and mounting geopolitical tensions in the South China… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Protection Monday granted Edgartown emergency authorization to dredge Katama Bay, clearing the way for a project intended to help restore the storm-battered South Beach. In a meeting with town officials earlier this month, the select board declared a local state of emergency after the Island was hit with three strong winter storms. The… Read More