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A portion of the Greer Island beach will be closed through the beginning of September as a dredging project continues. According to the Town of Longboat Key’s Public Works Department, an area along the west side of Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island, is undergoing dredging of the sandspit near the dock area…. Read More
Watch Kennedy’s full exchange here. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today raised questions about the fairness of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act’s (GOMESA) limits on revenue that Louisiana can receive. Kennedy and Louisiana’s Gov. John Bel Edwards, a witness at the hearing, agreed on the necessity of passing… Read More
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is off to an aggressive start, with three named storms in the month of June for the first time in the history of recorded hurricanes. With this strong kickoff, many Floridians understandably are feeling a sense of unease following the devastating hurricane season of 2022, compounded by the lingering effects… Read More
City commissioners were surprised and confounded to learn the Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District told Pinellas County that none of its beach renourishment projects are moving forward, even though they were ready to go out to bid, because some beachfront property owners refuse to grant the federal government perpetual public access easements to come… Read More
Over the last several years, the residents of Santa Monica, a coastal city on the edge of Los Angeles, saw something neither they, their parents, or perhaps even their grandparents had ever seen before: a three-foot-tall dune system rising gently from the flat, groomed expanse of one of the world’s most famous urban beaches. It’s… Read More
Ron Helbig, managing partner of Mystic Shipyard, led Gov. Ned Lamont and officials on a tour Thursday morning of the Essex Street facility in Mystic, pointing out features from the pressure wash recycling equipment to the rigging areas. Helbig said during a news conference that the shipyard has a long heritage of shipbuilding and he… Read More
In February The Logan Daily News reported that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources was making preparations to dredge Lake Logan to reduce a build-up of organic material in the lake, but had not yet started the project. ODNR subsequently began the dredging, and was depositing the silt and other material removed from the lake on… Read More
Today, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, Robert L. “Bob” Woodard, Sr., issued the following statements regarding federal funding for a feasibility study performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on beach nourishment for the village of Rodanthe. “I am delighted to work with Dare County… Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has begun a maintenance dredging campaign on the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers in New Jersey. The USACE will dredge both the entrance of the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers at Sandy Hook as well as the Navesink River to Red Bank and the Shrewsbury River as far as the… Read More
Dredging at the Tarentum pump house likely will be postponed after bids came in nearly double what was expected. The work helps make sure that the facility operates efficiently and reduces the amount of particulates to be filtered out at the water treatment plant. Borough Manager Dwight Boddorf said council usually budgets $130,000 for the… Read More
The Triplicate has learned through internal communications between a past harbormasterand elected commissioners, evidence that contradicts Harbor claims the District was unaware of critical dredging priorities back in May of 2015. The evidence submitted helped arbitrators decide in favor of a $1.9 million Harbor award for Fashion Blacksmith in its lawsuit against the harbor. The… Read More
Only three Harbor Commissioners were present and met last Tuesday to update the public on status of future dredging permits in the inner harbor. Also reported were a grants application schedule and an update from the CCHD comptroller on current finances. There was no agendized report on how or when the Harbor will address the… Read More
A dredging company has completed construction of an underwater sill across the bottom of the Mississippi River at Myrtle Grove to block saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico from reaching public and industrial water supplies in upper Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes as well as New Orleans. New Jersey-based Weeks Marine Inc. began dredging from… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed dredging and placing 1.3 million cubic yards of sand on the Delaware beaches. For context, a standard dump truck holds between 12 and 15 cubic yards, according to Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Stephen Rochette. “These projects are important because a strong dune and beach system has… Read More
Brighton Beach is a mile long city park, and projects are continuing. A couple are related to the shoreline restoration, after storms wreaked havoc back in 2017 and 2018. Getting the funding puzzle pieces put together took some time, along with the design work. Some of it had been 3/4 of the way done, when… Read More