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There’s a reason why so many shipbuilders have Washington, D.C. offices. The House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces today released its proposals for the FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Among other things, this year’s proposal “directs the Maritime Administrator to carry out a program to complete the design… Read More
SURF CITY — Surf City town leadership is hopeful its revamped beach nourishment project will be approved, following neighboring North Topsail Beach’s withdrawal last summer. The United States Army Corps of Engineers is finalizing the review of a validation report, which would allow a 50-year beach nourishment plan to move forward with Surf City as… Read More
New beach access measures proposed for the railroad right-of-way on the Del Mar bluffs are deepening the rift between the North County Transit District, the city and the California Coastal Commission. The San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, is proposing a mile-long, bluff-top trail, a grade-level pedestrian crossing and a stairway to the beach… Read More
Washington, D.C., June 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), in partnership with NOAA, today announced $25.2 million in grants to help coastal communities affected by hurricanes and wildfires in 2020 or 2021 increase their resilience to future natural disasters. The new grants will leverage $4.9 million in additional funding… Read More
The U.S. government cannot issue any drilling permits that authorize the use of hydraulic fracturing and acidization off the coast of California until it issues a full Environmental Impact Statement, a federal appeals court held Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Obama administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in May 2016,… Read More
North Texas officials on Tuesday formally broke ground on a $223 million project to improve the Trinity River floodway in Dallas. The Army Corp of Engineers is overseeing work to raise certain sections of the levees along the river by 2 to 6 feet and reduce the slope on some portions along the 23-mile network… Read More
Bye bye! The US Coast Guard removed its nine buoys – federally maintained “ATONs” or aids to navigation – from Milton Harbor on Monday. In turn, the City of Rye hired McCauley Mooring and Diving Services of Larchmont, and they installed private ATONs on Monday. The private aids will remain until the City completes a dredging… Read More
Robin Mattheus, coastal geology research scientist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, joins Lisa Dent on Chicago’s Afternoon News to explain why water levels in Lake Michigan are dropping and what’s needed to repair the eroded beaches in the city. Source
Vessels in the Steveston Cannery Channel could be at risk of running aground and tipping over, possibly spilling fuel, if the channel isn’t dredged soon, according to the Steveston Harbour Authority (SHA). But the permit to do this work could take two years to be approved and the Steveston Harbour Authority needs about $5 million to… Read More
A group of Lake Country residents and business people are at a loss as to why the municipality is slowing their attempt to dredge Oyama Canal. They hope to get answers at tonight’s district council meeting. Andrew Spear, spokesman for Oyama Canal Far Management Society, says the group has the necessary approvals from the federal Department of… Read More
WASHINGTON—Sen. John Kennedy today announced $14.8 million in grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for coastal restoration projects in Louisiana. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is awarding the grants in response to the hurricane damage that impacted the state in 2021. “These investments will help make our communities more resilient against future… Read More
SOUTH HAVEN, MI — The U.S. Army Corps is shoring up eroded beaches this summer along Lake Michigan using dredged sand from harbor mouths. The Army Corps will dredge 18,000 cubic-yards of sand starting this week in St. Joseph from the St. Joseph River channel mouth. The Black River channel mouth in South Haven will… Read More
HOUSTON, June 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the exercise of the contract option to build a second 6,500-cubic-yard-capacity Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge with Conrad Shipyard in Amelia, Louisiana. With expected delivery in the first quarter of… Read More
Beachgoers will share space in the sand with heavy equipment along parts of the Outer Banks this summer as beach nourishment projects get underway to slow erosion along the storm-swept barrier island chain. Starting in Kill Devil Hills this month and continuing through fall in Duck, Southern Shores and Kitty Hawk, Dare County and the… Read More
SANTA ROSA BEACH — Eight years after it was authorized, and two years before federal funding authorization is set to expire, Walton County is working to revitalize a potentially massive beach nourishment program. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Walton County Board of County Commissioners, the county Tourism Department‘s interim director, Brian Kellenberger, got authorization to schedule public workshops on… Read More