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Crews spent hours Monday working to free a 767-foot-long cargo ship that ran aground near the Muskegon channel in west Michigan, almost exactly a year after a similar incident. The Kaye E. Barker had been approaching the harbor “at a slow speed” when it grounded just off the Muskegon outer breakwall around 10 a.m., the… Read More
Two Alabama coastal rehabilitation projects have been awarded more than $27 million in grant funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The Nature Conservancy in Alabama recently announced. About $14.6 million will go toward the Coffee Island restoration project in Mobile County and more than $12.8 million will go to the Perdido Watershed Initiative… Read More
Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that the town of Edgartown along with Barnstable County will receive a combined $1 million in grants to support coastal dredging efforts. The first round of grants will go towards the purchase and operation of dredging equipment, the Healey administration announced in a press release. Governor Healey credited dredging projects… Read More
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stone (WMSL 758) returned to their home port in North Charleston, Sunday, following a 105-day patrol in the South Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Florida Straits. Stone deployed in the Coast Guard’s Seventh District area of operations in support of U.S. Southern Command for Operation Southern Cross and… Read More
A Draft Environmental Assessment examining a plan restore Pohoiki Bay “to a shape and depth that resembles pre-eruption conditions to the extent possible” is now online. The Pohoiki Boat Ramp Dredging of Volcanic Debris Draft EA was published in The Environmental Notice for April 23. The Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources, with the help of The Limtiaco… Read More
After weather- and equipment-related delays, beach replenishment has begun in Rehoboth Beach. New Jersey-based Weeks Marine began staging equipment a few weeks ago, with sand starting to be pumped earlier this week. Rehoboth is slated to receive nearly 300,000 cubic yards of sand and dune fencing repair from the Deauville Beach area south to Delaware… Read More
A dredging project starting next week will expand storage capacity and improve water quality in the North Fork Mills River Reservoir, the city of Hendersonville said in a news release. The watershed and reservoir, located on completely forested, public lands in Pisgah National Forest, have provided water to Hendersonville and surrounding areas for approximately 100… Read More
The National Hurricane Center released its comprehensive final report on Hurricane Ian this morning. The 72-page document offers a tremendous amount of information from Ian’s origins as a tropical wave off of Africa to its rapid intensification over the Gulf of Mexico, onslaught on Florida, and then eventual dissipation over the eastern United States. Source
Dune restoration work for the next 10 weeks – weather permitting – will extend from Beverly Beach to Varn Park as part of Flagler County’s ongoing emergency sand operations. “The contractor is staging operations from Varn Park, but the work they will be conducting will start at the southern project end and progress north,” said… Read More
In the span of just one day of stormy weather in January, so much sediment had clogged the entrance to the Santa Cruz Harbor that you could walk across the channel. Since the harbor is directly down the coast from the San Lorenzo River, all of the debris and sand from the channel flows right… Read More
The state coastal board on Wednesday unanimously approved the latest iteration of Louisiana’s 50-year, $50 billion plan to combat land loss and protect coastal communities from hurricanes. The final 2023 Coastal Master Plan would mark the fourth version of the strategic, science-based road map for investing in a mix of coastal restoration projects like dredging and pumping… Read More
The waves are why so many go down to the Jersey Shore, but it’s also the waves that eat away at the shore. Parts of Ortley Beach in Toms River have visibly been eaten away, not leaving room to spread out that blanket and beach chair this summer. “The ocean wants to take back what I… Read More
When we first visited Dutch Slough in eastern Contra Costa County last year, the recently restored tidal marsh was already flourishing. But hiding among the reeds was a critical question. How effective would the marsh be at sequestering carbon? A key benefit of restoring wetlands in the age of climate change. “For doing the inhaling and… Read More
Carteret County commissioners Monday night approved a contract with Charlotte-based HDR Engineering of the Carolinas for an engineering study of dredging Ophelia Inlet from Core Sound to the Atlantic Ocean. The action was part of the consent agenda – a list of items that can be approved with one vote – during the commission’s regular… Read More
Dutra’s DB-24 dredging at the West Harbor Marina in San Francisco. This was a 5-day job deepening and widening the approach channel of the marina. Dutra used the KS-10 and DS-5 scows and disposed of the sand at the Montezuma Wetland Restoration Project (MWRP). Dutra dug to 12ft and removed a total of 9,000 CY… Read More