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How is the city going to fund dredging Lake Mitchell? Are there ways lake residents can pitch in more to help fund a future dredging project vs. non-lake residents? What’s the drawdown structure going to look like? Those were some of the questions city officials fielded Tuesday night during a Lake Mitchell information meeting held… Read More
The North Carolina Coastal Federation will soon begin restoring 100 acres of the Pamlico Sound for an oyster sanctuary. The project will mark the completion of a two-decade long goal of restoring 500 acres for oysters along North Carolina’s Coasts. Howard Schnabolk is a restoration specialist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which is… Read More
Hawaii legislators have approved $5.4 million in the state budget to dredge Hawaii Island’s Pohoiki Boat Harbor, which was blocked off by lava during the 2018 eruption of Kilauea. That flow claimed hundreds of homes in Lower Puna, including that of former Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim. ”A real, real sadness came over me,” the… Read More
Leaders from the cities of Solana Beach and Encinitas will Thursday shore up their beaches for the next half-century by signing a project partnership agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The agreement will begin placement of beach-dredged sand this fall as the first phase of a 50-year coastal resiliency project that has been… Read More
Officials say the hiring of an additional dredge company will allow beach replenishment in Fenwick Island to conclude before Memorial Day. In last week’s town council meeting, Mayor Natalie Magdeburger announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired a second dredge company to complete beach replenishment work in Delaware’s coastal communities, beginning in Fenwick… Read More
Arcata Fire District Board of Directors When: Second Tuesday of every month at 5:30 p.m. Where: Arcata Station classroom, 631 Ninth St., Arcata. • The board will meet in closed session for property negotiations for the Ninth Street station. • The board will work to establish an ad-hoc group to work on annual performance evaluations… Read More
Sarasota County aims to reserve Hurricane Hermine damages from 2016 with their South Siesta Key beach repair project. Source
FENWICK ISLAND – Officials in Fenwick Island say they will begin seeking permits as negotiations continue with a local developer to place materials from a dredging project on a nearby property. In a Fenwick Island Town Council meeting last Friday, Councilman Bill Rymer, chair of the town’s dredging committee, provided an update on a long-awaited… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has begun maintenance dredging of sections of the Ponce de Leon Inlet and nearby sections of the Intracoastal Waterway. The USACE dredging vessel Murden is expected to remove approximately 60,000 cubic yards of shoaling material over a 40-day period. Operations will be ongoing 24 hours per day, seven… Read More
Before a bipartisan Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, cities pumped raw sewage into lakes, mining companies discharged acid waste into streams, and factories poured chemicals into rivers, which occasionally caught on fire. The Clean Water Act made such pollution illegal and expanded the federal government’s authority to regulate waterways across the country. But… Read More
Advocates say would-be homebuyers and current oceanfront property owners in North Carolina have long needed clearer rules and updated information as climate change increases the risks of damage and flooding. Two unrelated, but long-sought actions taken last week by the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission seek to clarify two persistent issues: septic systems on the… Read More
In a bid to make New York City a global leader in climate change research, Mayor Eric Adams recently unveiled plans for the New York Climate Exchange, an international center that will focus on developing and deploying solutions in response to the worldwide climate crisis. The state-of-the-art facility will be located on Governors Island, just… Read More
In September 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a Category 4 storm with around 20 feet of storm surge. Even though the hurricane caused more than $7 billion in damage, it soon became clear that the disaster could have been much worse: If the storm surge had struck the coast at a different… Read More
A leader of the engineering firm that’s been analyzing Lake Mitchell’s phosphorus-rich sediment over the past two years made a recommendation on Monday to dredge the body of water at a cost of $25 million. Eric Lund, an engineer with Barr Engineering, broke down the lake improvement recommendations during Monday’s Mitchell City Council meeting at… Read More
Eastham town meeting voters will tackle a number of articles this Saturday, including big steps in addressing the region’s water quality. Article 3D of the capital budget is a bond authorization for wastewater planning and design, said Town Administrator Jacqueline Beebe. “It shouldn’t be based on individual taxpayers having to come up with $40,000 or… Read More