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Market Insights Reports is one of the world’s leading market research firms, is pleased to announce its new Environmental Remedial Dredging Market report 2023-2029, covering all aspects of the market and providing up-to-date data on current trends. The Environmental Remedial Dredging Market report can help customers make business decisions and understand the strategies of major players in the industry. It… Read More
There is not one more universally recognized spot by those who have visited Fort Myers Beach than the Fort Myers Beach Pier. Perhaps nothing will signify that the island is back from the thrashing of Hurricane Ian than the reopening of the Fort Myers Beach Pier. Yet the pier, which was ripped apart by Ian,… Read More
Sarasota County is making progress on its Turtle Beach repair project and expects to finish it by the end of the month. As of Saturday, June 3, about 67,200 of an expected 92,000 cubic yards of sand had been placed along South Siesta Key’s beaches. The project, which began in late April, is meant to repair damage from… Read More
Would paying an 1% hotel tax stop vacationers from coming here? County commissioners debated that question Tuesday as they considered a proposal by commission Chairman Joe Earman to hike the county bed 25%, from the current 4% to 5%. According to Earman, increasing the bed tax by 1% could generate approximately an additional $1 million… Read More
Rather than run the risk of a big rain and a high tide hitting at once and causing possible flooding, an urgent project is underway to clear silt out of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh. The project is well underway, and the work already done shows how risky the buildup of runoff of mountain material can… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Maritime Partners, LLC (“Maritime Partners”), a leading provider of maritime financing solutions primarily focused on Jones Act vessels, has announced the successful completion of the inaugural capital markets issuance of vessel asset-backed securities (“ABS”) by MP 2023 LLC, its controlled affiliate. This transaction was the first ABS issuance composed entirely… Read More
Efforts to widen and deepen the Matagorda Ship Channel hit a wall in December when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers withdrew its design plans, saying they needed to redo their environmental assessment for the project. Then this month, the corps announced it was prepared to draft a new environmental study. The corps will host… Read More
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District identifies Little Lake Harbor, located near Newberry, Michigan, as a critical need for dredging due to significant shoaling and shoreline flooding. “Little Lake Harbor is a shallow draft harbor that serves as an important Harbor of Refuge and supports Tribal fishing,” LeighAnn… Read More
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting government protection of certain wetlands could have a significant effect on what can and cannot be removed, filled in or built upon in Galveston County. With low-lying land masses and large, circulating bodies of water, much of the landscape of Galveston County falls under federal jurisdiction protecting wetlands,… Read More
Early one March morning in Rincón, Puerto Rico, a bulldozer equipped with a jackhammer rumbled across Los Almendros beach toward a half-built cement wall sticking out of the sand in front of a condominium complex called Sol y Playa. The words “propiedad del pueblo,” or “property of the people,” had been spray-painted on the wall, as… Read More
Hotels and condos along Maui’s famous Kaanapali Beach are divided over whether to move forward with a controversial $10 million beach restoration project nearly three months after the board that oversees the state Department of Land and Natural Resources pulled its support for shouldering half its costs. While the resort properties haven’t given up on… Read More
As King Company finishes up their dredging of the outer St. Joseph harbor, visitors to Silver Beach County Park have noticed some major changes – it just keeps getting bigger. The project is a continuation of last fall’s emergency dredging to clear a buildup of sand that was blocking the pathway of commercial vessels. It… Read More
Milford Harbor will be dredged at a few key points this fall to keep its boats from grounding in shallows as part of a project likely to cost about $5.6 million and funded almost entirely by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. The US Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to go out to bid on… Read More
Louisiana’s ambitious and expensive plans for restoring the coast received strong backing from five of the candidates vying to be the state’s next governor. At a forum hosted by the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana in New Orleans on Friday, the candidates laid out a nearly identical vision for protecting and restoring the state’s endangered coast. Louisiana… Read More
Tuesday President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department announced a total of $2.6 billion to be allocated to protecting coastal communities and restoring marine resources. The money is part of a funding framework within the Inflation Reduction Act. The U.S. Department of Commerce said almost $400 million will go to the priorities of tribal communities and to help restore… Read More