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Expect delays on Crawfords Corner Road near Catbird Alley to continue on Thursday, Holmdel police advise. Monmouth County is dredging the creek that runs under Crawfords Corner Road and one lane is closed. Due to this work and the alternating traffic pattern, there will be delays on Crawfords Corner Road on Thursday from 9 a.m…. Read More
The dredging of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal is on schedule and expected to be finished in December. “The progress has been good,” said Steve Rochette, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District spokesperson. “Material is being pumped into the disposal area off and on as they advance the dredge.” The disposal area is located between the… Read More
The next step in the Little Lagoon restoration project could be underway. A motion was presented at the Nov. 6 city council work session to conduct restoration and research as a part of the city’s RESTORE grant. The grant, which was previously approved at a June 2022 council meeting, is a part of a project… Read More
“Don’t blame the mangroves,” is a key take-away of an international collaboration looking into vegetation removal, sedimentation, and coastal restoration. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows coastal restoration on a smaller local scale isn’t going to cut through the mud without larger scale catchment change. Contributing author, oceanographer Professor Karin Bryan from the University of Waikato says,… Read More
Nine months after winter storms ravaged parts of Goleta Beach Park, the facility’s east side parking lot, restaurant and parts of the pier are still closed. The pier opened for foot traffic in August, but remains closed to vehicles, and sections with benches have been blocked off. Repairs have been underway but there is no certain completion date… Read More
South Carolina Ports (SC Ports) announced impressive performance for the month of October, with container volumes showing signs of recovery and even reaching new record highs. Despite a 9% year-over-year decrease in container volumes, mainly driven by a decline in empty volumes, which fell 27% yoy, loaded import and export twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) only… Read More
A coastal Pender County town may have to pay more for this year’s dredging after survey work revealed many areas in the channel have more shallow depths than anticipated. Topsail Beach is gearing up for its winter dredging to excavate between 1.6 million and 1.9 million cubic yards of sand from the inlet channels to… Read More
The Friends of a Clean Hudson (FOCH) coalition today released a new, independent, scientific assessment of the Hudson River PCBs Superfund site, finding that the EPA’s “dredging remedy” has failed to ensure the protection of human and environmental health because the concentration of toxic PCBs in the river’s fish and sediment remain higher than anticipated…. Read More
Ocean waters are already an abundant resource in the battle for clean air, and San Francisco-based startup Vesta hopes to utilize another substance on our beaches and in the ocean to remove 1 billion tons of carbon pollution annually. Bloomberg reported that the potentially planet-saving substance is olivine, a mineral that removes carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of the… Read More
A contract for construction of the Mill Creek Water Control Structure has been awarded by the Cape Cod National Seashore, for the infrastructure component of the larger Herring River Restoration Project. The construction, which is expected to be completed by the spring of 2025, will span the mouth of Mill Creek where it meets the… Read More
The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust announced Tuesday that it is sending a little more than $8.5 million in grant funds over the next two years to help fund projects that seek to preserve wetlands by the Great Salt Lake. Combined, the projects are expected to “protect and enhance” more than 13,000 acres of the lake’s… Read More
When measuring the impact of land loss plaguing the state of Louisiana, the staggering statistics verify the significance and need for coastal restoration. With over 2,000 acres lost since the 1980s, peril was traded for progress with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) breaking ground in late summer on its $2.3-billion Mid-Barataria Sediment… Read More
The Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council has added $33 million to the funds allocated to restore and protect the environment and economy of the Gulf Coast area. The Nov. 1 vote by the council to add the money brings total spending under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast… Read More
The long-planned and much needed dredging of Barden Inlet – partly in the Cape Lookout National Seashore and partly outside it – appears to be moving closer to fruition. Although CLNS Superintendent Jeff West said Monday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a bid for the project, Carteret County Shore Protection Office Manager… Read More
The aspiring owners of nearly 150 acres of pristine beach and soundfront property at the southern tip of Topsail Island need to keep in writing an assurance that much of the land will be forever conserved, Topsail Beach commissioners warned. During a nearly three-hour-long special called meeting Tuesday morning, some town commissioners suggested that Todd… Read More