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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
Elected officials and community leaders joined Saturday to celebrate completion of new walking and biking trails at the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve. The work, begun five years ago, includes highway and rail improvements and environmental features. The project, a collaboration between Caltrans and SANDAG and part of the Build North Coast Corridor (NCC) program, includes $124 million of TransNet environmental… Read More
According to the latest update from Dare County on the Avon beach nourishment project, initial mobilization of equipment for the project is almost complete. Contractors are now waiting for the dredge Liberty Island to arrive after a dry dock period in the Gulf and testing has been completed. June 14 is the current estimated date… Read More
The US Coast Guard is scheduled to remove nine buoys – federally maintained “ATONs” or aids to navigation – from Milton Harbor on Monday. The USCG warned of the removal in a public notice back in January. The action is a result of extreme shoaling – in plain English lower water depths – due to silting… Read More
Army officials recently announced a $5.3 million contract award for dredging the Rogue River at Gold Beach. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains navigation channels along the Oregon coast and dredging is an important component of keeping the Rogue River Harbor open for recreational vessels, including jet boats, fishing guides and sport fishermen. Corps… Read More
Construction on the New Orleans Landbridge Shoreline Stabilization and Marsh Creation project has begun! The project will restore 253 acres of brackish marsh and reduce interior marsh loss through shoreline stabilization. Read more: https://bit.ly/3m7HWo3 Source
We have been awarded and are currently working on the Naval Station Norfolk dredging project by the US Navy! Here, our tug Taurus and Derrick Barge Ironbound are at the Panama Canal heading to Norfolk, VA. from Long Beach, CA. The job in Virginia has a shallow water component which required us to send one… Read More
Overall, the AIWW is receiving $29.953 million for FY22 and the NJIWW is receiving $985,000. This includes appropriations for every state along the AIWW. In addition, the states of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina received additional funding in the Corps’ work plan. This is the highest amount of funding the waterway has received in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using harbor dredge material to shore up Lake Michigan beaches this summer. Four harbors along Lake Michigan — Holland, Grand Haven, St. Joseph and South Haven — were approved for dredging this spring and summer. Materials gathered through the process will be used to “nourish and replenish” beaches… Read More
Conservationists received the final piece of funding Thursday needed to purchase the 384-acre Banning Ranch oil field as part of an effort to restore the land as an open space park. The state’s Wildlife Conservation Board awarded up to a $15.5 million grant to nonprofit groups Trust for Public Land and Banning Ranch Conservancy toward… Read More
Louisville’s largest urban stream is on the cusp of a major glow up. Last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed off on an estimated $121 million project to restore the stream and the habitat along its banks. Beargrass Creek and its three branches covers a 60-square mile watershed that runs through urban Louisville,… Read More
No matter how incessant the public frustration or how desperate the pleas from mariners to fix clogged harbors, impassable channels or eroded shorelines, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is struggling to address worsening problems in coastal North Carolina, especially on the Outer Banks. Recently, a wicked nor’easter wreaked havoc in Oregon Inlet, choking it… Read More
Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that a massive cleanup of New Bedford’s harbor is nearing completion after nearly 40 years of work and close to $1 billion in expenses. The bed of the Acushnet River that forms the harbor between New Bedford and Fairhaven has been polluted with dangerous concentrations… Read More
What may look like regular old dirt to most is gold to the city of Lorain, or at the very least, dirt that you might one day buy to place in your garden. In a site along the Black River, the city launched a pilot program in 2020 where they created what’s called a GeoPool…. Read More
In exclusive commentary to DredgeWire, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock CEO Lasse Petterson said: “We are pleased to be the contractor for the first phase of this important project. A lot of people have worked long and hard to get to this point and we congratulate the Port leadership, Ric Campo, Roger Guenther, and Charlie… Read More