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During Tuckerton Borough’s April 17 council meeting, more dredging questions were cleared up for residents living on Kingfisher Lagoon. “We are absolutely thrilled to live here. We are amazed at what we see out our back door, the Forsythe marsh,” shared one such resident, Chris Sullivan, who just moved to town nine months ago. However,… Read More
Public access to Capistrano Beach may be limited until early June as OC Public Works and OC Parks work to remove a stretch of sand cubes and construct a revetment to protect the coastline from erosion. Starting on April 25, OC Public Works commenced the construction of a rip rap revetment, and the removal of… Read More
Florida lawmakers this week put the Indian River Lagoon in line for $100 million in cleanups, marking what some are calling an historic year for funding to clean up the waterway. “It was a good year for Brevard,” Rep. Thad Altman, R-Indian Harbour Beach, said. On Monday, Florida legislative leaders tentatively agreed to a $116… Read More
Every year, farmers fertilize their crops with nitrogen and phosphorus to ensure a good harvest. And every year some of that fertilizer inevitably makes its way into ponds and lakes, where it can trigger ecosystem-wrecking algal blooms. According to a new study published last month in Science of the Total Environment, though, there may be a… Read More
The 200 million Europeans who live in coastal zones are already feeling the impact of global warming through extreme variations in sea level and flooding. Many parts of Europe could suffer 10 times more coastal flooding by 2100, depending on the trajectory of greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change, according to the European Environment Agency. History lessons ‘For… Read More
Beaches in Encinitas and Solana Beach will soon have more sand thanks to a sand replenishment project that’s been decades in the making. The cities of Encinitas and Solana Beach are slated this week to sign a project partnership agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin placement of beach dredged sand this… Read More
If you’ve walked along the Milwaukee River in the Third Ward lately, you may have noticed some action happening in the river. That’s because a new project to remove legacy contamination kicked off at the end of April. The project to remove polluted sediment is one part of a large-scale effort to clean up the Milwaukee… Read More
Beach replenishment in southern Delaware will be finished much sooner than anticipated thanks to the arrival of a third dredging ship. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor Weeks Marine began operations in Rehoboth Beach in April, with plans to move south down the coast and complete work midsummer. Southern beaches, such as Fenwick Island and South Bethany,… Read More
April 2023 Project Update: Have you seen things popping up along the Milwaukee River downtown? After years of planning, permitting and outreach, We Energies, along with their contractors GEI Consultants and J. F. Brennan, are beginning the cleanup of contaminated sediment in portions of the Milwaukee River near the Third Ward. We Energies will remove approximately… Read More
The Department of the Interior today announced that more than $146 million in funding has been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, providing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners the ability to help conserve or restore 242,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds across North… Read More
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure program so far has funneled $2.6 billion over the last two years to projects in Maryland, according to White House data. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by Biden in November 2021, has been touted as a once-in-a-generation piece of legislation and the president is highlighting it as one of his key accomplishments… Read More
Having been left in the dark by a lack of reply from FEMA regarding its early-March request for a one-year extension on the renourishment of Turtle Beach, Sarasota County acted out of necessity and got the project in motion. On April 17, the county announced that California-based Ahtna Marine & Construction had been hired as… Read More
Braddock Supervisor James Walkinshaw, Franconia Supervisor Rodney Lusk, and Board Chair Jeffrey McKay will ask the board to form a task force on the future of Lake Accotink. The task force would “review the existing studies, analyses, and recommendations, participate in a detailed study of the managed wetland option, and explore the possibility of a… Read More
Today, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Shawn Hamilton announced the award of $100 million in funding for local governments that operate a stormwater or wastewater management system that were impacted by Hurricane Ian or Hurricane Nicole. Eligible counties included Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Lee, Manatee,… Read More
The City-funded $1.6 million dollar dredging of Milton Harbor has come up vastly short of delivering its targeted depth of five feet. A hydrographic survey by the City’s consultant Coastline Consulting & Development shows less than 10% of the channel achieved the minimum depth of five feet. It is a bit muddy as far as what… Read More