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Massachusetts needs to shift from an era of statewide planning for climate policy to the key details of implementing it, according to a new report from the state’s top climate official, which includes sweeping recommendations to accelerate the state’s progress toward its emissions reduction goals. Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer recommends some more drastic measures, such… Read More
A Congressional Budget Office report estimates that the U.S. Navy’s fiscal year 2024 shipbuilding plan to expand its fleet size to between 319 and 367 aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants and other battle force ships would cost approximately $34 billion to $36 billion in 2023 dollars annually over three decades. CBO said Thursday the figures were based… Read More
Following the acquisition of necessary permits, the Yacht Club Beach in Cape Coral is set to reopen on Friday, Nov. 10. Due to damage from Hurricane Ian, the Yacht Club Community Park remained closed for over a year. Local residents even started a petition to reopen the beach to the public earlier this year, accumulating over 600 signatures. Now… Read More
Narrow River Dredging Project Sediment Sampling Foth Infrastructure & Environment (Foth), the Town’s design consultant for the Narrow River Dredging project, is scheduled to be on site Tuesday (10/31) and Wednesday (11/1) alongside its subcontractor, TG&B Marine (TG&B), to collect nine (9) sediment samples between the Boston Neck Rd Bridge (Sprague Bridge) and the mouth… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — The heating element removed from Monique Plaisance’s water heater in September was disintegrating, streaked with rust and covered in a dry crust. She blamed the corrosion on the water piped in from the area’s longtime drinking water source: the Mississippi River. It was a similar story not far away at the Black Velvet Oyster Bar… Read More
“Louisiana has lost approximately 1,900 square miles of its coast since 1932,” according to the City of New Orleans. The rapid coastal erosion comes as the byproduct of climate change, rising sea levels, and human involvement. In order to fight back against this coastal loss, two former Tulane students, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, founded… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – Ships and barges on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg have run aground because of the low water level due to the extreme drought conditions. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are using their Dredge Jadwin ship to push out massive sandbars in the Mississippi River. The ship had been carving out… Read More
Dredging efforts over the past few weeks are expected to begin easing access for larger vessels and tows pushing heavier barge loads to make it through Montgomery Point Lock and Dam, the first point of access between the Arkansas River and the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River hit its lowest water level on record this… Read More
A Fenwick Island committee agreed this week to accept a $59,000 proposal from a Lewes-based engineering firm to support bidding work related to the town’s dredging project. On Monday, the Fenwick Island Dredging Committee voted 6-0 to accept a $59,000 proposal from Anchor QEA. Steve Bagnull, project manager, said the document includes $4,000 for the… Read More
Lindsay Park Yacht Club is undergoing a dredging project and staff says they’re using unusual methods to make that project happen. Yacht club staff said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is going to be performing the work with funding that the yacht club received a year ago that had been set aside for the… Read More
On 24th October 2023, with a ceremony held at OCCAR premises in Rome, OCCAR (Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation) has signed with a Consortium, coordinated by Naviris and gathering together Fincantieri (Italy), Naval Group (France), Navantia (Spain) and other beneficiaries from Greece, Denmark and Norway all the Modular and Multirole Patrol Corvette (MMPC) contractual documents… Read More
In the middle of the shrunken Mississippi, a barge drags a giant metal-edged suction head along the riverbed to remove sediment from shipping lanes. The crew of the dustpan dredge Hurley has been working around-the-clock for months to deepen the channels so boats and barges can pass through. “We’ve worked almost nonstop since last fall,… Read More
The former presidential yacht USS Sequoia, which has been kept under wraps in Belfast for the past four years, is being moved to Maryland. The 104-foot motor cruising yacht, originally built in 1925, was barged out of Belfast’s harbor Wednesday morning. An employee at French & Webb, the local boatyard that has been hired to… Read More
Scenes of the dredging project on the Grand Canal near Pineda Causeway which is part of the Save Our Indian Lagoon Plan. They are removing large amounts of organic muck from waterways in South Patrick Shores and Satellite Beach areas. TIM SHORTT / FLORIDA TODAY Hydraulic dredging in a canal at Tortosie Island in Satellite… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. — Low water levels at the Mississippi River are causing ships to run aground. The river is so low because of the lack of rain. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using its dredge ship “Jadwin” to push out massive amounts of silt in an effort to keep the mouth of the Yazoo… Read More