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With hopes high for the summer tourist economy in 2023, the borough is going to have a wide, new beach for visitors to enjoy. Other communities will not be in as good a shape. A federal project just added nearly 600,000 cubic yards of sand to Avalon beaches from Ninth Street to 27th Street. The… Read More
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Alabama announced earlier last month that it was awarded more than $27 million of $265 million in transformational habitat restoration and coastal resilience funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or about 10 percent of the total award. The funding will be split between two coastal Alabama projects, with… Read More
Champions of restoring Louisiana’s coastal wetlands recently celebrated another milestone when they marked the rebuilding of a natural ridge in Spanish Pass, west of Venice in southern Plaquemines Parish. The Spanish Pass project comprises nearly 1,700 acres of freshly formed land extending about six miles into Yellow Cotton Bay. A year ago, all of the newly… Read More
Hy Stor Energy on Thursday took the next step to develop a large-scale hydrogen production and storage hub in Mississippi. The company said in a press release it submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Energy for funding of the operation that would generate zero emission hydrogen energy and create hundreds of jobs. The… Read More
GALVESTON An islander is urging officials to investigate why jagged and rusted metal, chunks of concrete, lumps of clay and sharp seashells are emerging at the site of a recently completed $6.8 million beach remediation project in the West End. Beachgoers on the island’s West End have noted concrete, metal, clay and sharp seashells buried… Read More
Carteret County’s tourism took another hit recently when a property owner with a quitclaim deed to sand dunes paralleling portions of the Atlantic Beach sought to deny visitors the ability to cross his newly acquired property to access the public beach. Visitors to our beaches are not interested in property right disputes and absent a… Read More
Thank you Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana for recognizing National Maritime Day and the value of U.S. maritime and the Jones Act to our nation’s economic prosperity and national security. Source
The United States Army Corps of Engineers has been ordered to conduct an environmental study to determine if dredging around this time of year is harmful to the sea turtle nesting season. Since the 1990s dredging took place in Georgia’s coastal waters between December and March. “Dredging is an important part of keeping our harbors… Read More
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed sand replenishment efforts in Rehoboth Beach. Contractor Weeks Marine finished dredging sand from offshore and piping it onto Rehoboth shores May 18. Work began in Dewey Beach that evening, according to Corps of Engineers spokesman Stephen Rochette. Dewey is likely… Read More
A bulldozer began moving sand along a stretch of badly eroded beach Monday in a Jersey Shore town where the bitter fight over how to protect its rapidly shrinking shoreline has led to $33 million worth of litigation. Before the summer tourism season kicks off this weekend, North Wildwood hopes to repair dunes in the most… Read More
The Liebherr Group reports that two of its customers are putting its HS 8300 duty cycle crawler crane to the test on two large-scale U.S. Gulf coast dredging projects that are 350 miles apart. In Port Arthur, Texas, Matthews Brothers Inc. is working on a tight deadline at the port assisting in new construction off of… Read More
The administrator of the Shell Rock River Watershed District on Tuesday said he is optimistic the dredging on Albert Lea’s Fountain Lake can resume next year with the inclusion of $9 million toward the project in the state’s capital investment bill. Shell Rock River Watershed District Administrator Andy Henschel said though the timeline for the… Read More
The negative feedback loop of the climate and biodiversity crises can make water security seem a far-off dream. However, Tugba Ergin and Melissa Darr from our Global Sustainability Team paint a hopeful picture. Working with nature and approaching water resources and systems at a holistic level can provide solutions that respond to our urgent needs… Read More
Sand to renourish Wrightsville Beach’s ocean shoreline later this year will be pumped from within the same inlet it has for decades. Making what it calls an emergency exception, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District has determined the beach will get sand from Masonboro Inlet, sparing the town what was forecast to be… Read More
A federal judge late this afternoon signed the order approving a settlement agreement between the county and Cynthia d’Angiolini, who for three years had held out from signing an easement that would allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild 2.6 miles of dunes south of the Flagler Beach pier. “This is a monumental accomplishment for… Read More