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ATLANTIC BEACH, Carteret County — Are you interested in the progress of the winter dredging project on the East end of Atlantic Beach? The Army Corp of Engineers now offers a Sand Placement Tracker that shows the progress of the project in real-time. Please click below for both the web and mobile versions. This periodic… Read More
San Clemente’s beach building is officially underway. Officials gathered on Monday, Dec. 18, to mark the start of the long-awaited San Clemente Shoreline Sand Replenishment Project, with heavy equipment in the backdrop shifting sand to make way for the dredged sediment pulled from the ocean floor in Oceanside. Beachgoers will notice a large barge off the… Read More
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Officials continue to monitor the coastline following the storms this past weekend in Flagler County. On Monday, they were out doing a visual assessment to determine what damage was caused by the severe weather. “I have been making my way down from Marineland where we just finished the project a couple of… Read More
Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic. Massive machines like the Dredge Goetz, a 225-foot-long vessel with a suction pipe nearly two feet wide, were moving through the river… Read More
A “living shoreline” in Jefferson Parish, a lock complex for the Houma Navigation Canal and work on an unprecedented Mississippi River diversion are among a long list of coastal restoration and hurricane risk reduction projects state officials hope to prioritize in the next fiscal year, a draft plan amounting to $1.68 billion shows. That’s the largest amount in the 16-year history… Read More
According to the Virgin Islands Port Authority, the maintenance dredging of the Noel “Breeze” Boynes Car Ferry Dock in Red Hook, St. Thomas is completed. The project contractor, Divic-Madou Enterprises, completed the 10-day job in just three days. The dredging was performed at night and did not interrupt ferry operations. The Boynes Car Ferry Dock… Read More
In one of the great on-again-off-again local projects of this century, dredging looks to be coming back to the Assawoman Canal and White Creek early next year. DNREC pulled the plug on the once-started project earlier this year due to environmental restrictions. There wasn’t any certainty as to when, or if, the project would resume… Read More
Sandwich’s storm-battered Town Neck Beach got its latest round of beach nourishment this fall. Weeks Marine, working with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, piped sand ashore from a hydraulic dredge working at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal to deepen the channel. The sand was used to fortify the protective dune that fronts the parking lot… Read More
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C – SECU Foundation and North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF) are teaming up to help protect and enhance five North Carolina coastal communities through a three-year expansion of NCCF resilience projects. The foundation’s advocacy for their valuable work brought a $250,000 challenge grant to directly support the development of programs to build coastal… Read More
By: Dave Bohman JUPITER, Fla. — In the past two years, the Jupiter Inlet Beach was part of a multi-million dollar nourishment project where the beach is extended with more sand. And the wind, rain, and tides that come from storms like one expected this weekend will pull some of that sand back into the… Read More
MSC, the world’s largest shipping carrier, said it is no longer traveling through the Suez Canal after its container ship, the MSC PALATIUM III, was attacked Friday while transiting the Red Sea under a subcharter to Messina Line. “Due to this incident and to protect the lives and safety of our seafarers, until the Red… Read More
By Bill Shull A large dredge is now parked in Delaware Bay near Roosevelt Inlet as a Lewes Beach nourishment project gets underway. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started pumping beach fill Dec. 14. Steve Rochette, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District spokesman, said the contract is for $4.9 million. He said 104,000 cubic… Read More
ATLANTIC BEACH, Carteret County — Are you interested in the progress of the winter dredging project on the East end of Atlantic Beach? The Army Corp of Engineers now offers a Sand Placement Tracker that shows the progress of the project in real-time. Please click below for both the web and mobile versions. This periodic… Read More
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — Officials in Indian River County are closely keeping an eye on the crashing waves and gusting winds expected during this weekend’s storms amid fears the wet weather could once again chip away at the beaches the county recently spent millions of dollars to restore. In November, the County began Sector 3 of… Read More
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – In his final meeting with the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), Governor John Bel Edwards presented a draft spending plan aimed at combating land loss in Louisiana. The proposed $1.68 billion draft, the largest funding allocation in CPRA history, focuses on strategic initiatives to mitigate storm surge and reduce flooding…. Read More