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It’s a first-time feat for Eurobodalla Council crews who created and stacked 400 sandbags to protect the shoreline at Long Beach. A geotextile sandbag structure has been installed to protect the shoreline and Bay Road against potential collapse. Project engineer George Workman said the sandbags are a medium-term fix until a more permanent solution occurs…. Read More
Dredging work near the Carolina Beach Inlet is scheduled to continue through August 31st. The dredge MERRITT arrived in Snows Cut on August 19th to begin the project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District says the goal is to dredge the bar in Carolina Beach Inlet to a project depth of eight feet…. Read More
There’s a lot more to be settled besides an inter-agency tiff over financing and depth levels before the long-proposed St. Thomas Harbor dredge project becomes a reality. Among the issues are a shipwreck that may need to be relocated from the project area, endangered and threatened coral species that should be moved, and the replanting… Read More
About Proposals must be received through Grants.gov by 11:59 PM Eastern time on November 17, 2023. $240 million in funding is available for habitat restoration and coastal resilience through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. Projects selected through this funding opportunity will have a transformative impact for coastal communities and tribes across the country. They… Read More
Panama is about halfway through its rainy season right now, and one of the wettest countries in the world is having one of its driest seasons on record. At the Panama Canal, where freshwater serves as the lifeblood for its lock-driven operations, the lack of abundant rainfall is leading to lower water levels and putting a… Read More
The Panama Canal, a vital passageway that moves 6 percent of the world’s maritime commerce, will extend transit restrictions due to drought-induced low water levels. Canal authorities first announced restrictions this year, creating a backlog of vessels waiting to cross. But on Thursday, those restrictions were extended for at least 10 additional months. “We are currently… Read More
Vilano Beach Renourishment UPDATE +++++ USACE Jacksonville has begun pumping sand on Vilano Beach as its 2023-2024 renourishment cycle gets under way. The crew has begun beach fill at the northern end of the project area and will move south; see this week’s progress map for projected dates per section. Operations will be under way… Read More
The Mississippi River is just part of life here, so much so that perhaps we do not often think much about living on one of the great rivers of the world. Its broad avenue of commerce has nurtured this region and the nation for centuries, dating back to the days of dugout canoes. So while the cost… Read More
A team of scientists recently toured Dunkirk’s Lake Erie shoreline, marking the start of planning for actions to ease wave action and sediment accumulation. The scientists from Proof Project LLC and Anchor QEA toured the lakefront from the water. They used the Dunkirk Fire Department’s new boat, piloted by Capt. Gary Katta. Mike Przybycien, deputy… Read More
There has been movement on the restoration and development of the long-closed Wildwood landfill, City Administrator Steve O’Connor said, Aug. 9, beginning the process of removing what he called an embarrassment for a shore community. “How can we have an open landfill in a waterfront community?” he said. The project, he said, would become a… Read More
On Saturday, August 19th, one of the Army Corps of Engineers dredges made it to Ocean City. By Monday, August 21st, the dredge was out in full force, scooping up material from the inlet. The Army Corps tells WBOC the dredge is expected to stay in the inlet until August 30th. For years, fisherman and… Read More
A wetland restoration project is now underway in the 400-acre former herding area known as Ackerson Meadow, which was controversially added to Yosemite National Park in 2016, the National Park Service announced this week. Ackerson Meadow is on the west edge of Yosemite, on Evergreen Road in Tuolumne County, between Highway 120 and the entrance… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has launched a massive undertaking: a $4.5 billion project to rebuild wetlands on the disappearing Barren Island in the mid-Chesapeake Bay. Barren and its neighbor, James Island, have withered away to small spits of land. They’ll serve as the long-term site for dredged material from the Port of Baltimore’s… Read More
One of the most critically eroded coastlines on the First Coast is getting some relief. A beach renourishment project is underway for a three-mile stretch of Vilano Beach. A dredge is offshore with a massive tube running up to the shore and filling the berm back in. Once the sand gets ashore, heavy machines are pushing… Read More
An increasing number of climate-driven extreme weather events is taking its toll on the world’s major shipping routes — and El Niño could make matters worse. El Niño — or “the little boy” in Spanish — marks the unusual warming of the surface waters in the tropical central and eastern Pacific Ocean. It is a naturally occurring climate pattern… Read More