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The clock is ticking until its sea turtle time along Brevard County beaches. Nesting season is highly anticipated by researchers and ecotourists alike, but it also means the time when restoration work can continue is coming to a close. Nearly five months after Hurricane Nicole swept across the Space Coast, causing extensive coastal erosion, the… Read More
Permit applications for two sand and gravel plant operations are pending possible approval following a public commenting period over the next three weeks. Collier Materials has submitted two applications considered “administratively complete” by the Lower Colorado River Authority for planned dredging work to extract excess sand deposits on Lake LBJ and on the arm of… Read More
Legislation intended to reduce impacts to corals and other marine life in deepwater dredging cleared its second Senate committee after members added an exemption for shipping channel maintenance. SB 1072, which unanimously passed the Senate Committee on Community Affairs this week without debate, requires an independent contractor to determine any adverse impacts from dredging on the natural… Read More
Councilman Brian Martin gave an update on Lanyard Lagoon at the March 6 borough council meeting. Martin said the borough engineer submitted for the grant extension on Dec. 1, 2022. “We just have not received that official extension back from the DEP.” Martin said the state Department of Environmental Protection reassured council that Tuckerton’s application… Read More
Trails and beach access will be closed in the areas surrounding the Carpinteria Salt Marsh until June while Santa Barbara County clears excess debris deposited in the marsh following this year’s storms. The county began an emergency operation on Monday to remove excess debris and sediment from the Carpinteria Salt Marsh in order to mitigate… Read More
Residents and those who visit Mill Neck and Bayville this summer will see and hear more than boats and seagulls in Mill Neck Creek. The state Department of Environmental Conservation’s granting of a permit to Frank M. Flower & Sons on March 31 has made it likely that the scene in the estuary, which is… Read More
Carlsbad could be the next coastal North County city to join the San Diego Association of Governments’ proposal to launch a third regional beach sand replenishment project. SANDAG asked Carlsbad to shoulder a proportional share of the $200,000 cost for a planning, feasibility and economic analysis needed to start the project, which would pull sand… Read More
Little Lagoon Pass in Gulf Shores is so shallow due to the sand that’s built up, pelicans can stand in the middle it. Crews right now are in the process of dredging the pass and pumping the sand to west end beaches that are eroding. “Which is normally where that sand would end up naturally,”… Read More
After torrential rains caused devastating flooding in the Fraser Valley and the B.C. Interior in 2021, one metre of sediment accumulated at the lower end of Michael Owen’s marina in a secondary channel of the Fraser River in Delta. It posed a major problem for the Ladner Reach marina’s 28 floating homes in summer 2022. During the… Read More
In the Port of Oakland on a weekday, trucks, cranes and ships laden with containers moved goods across the sprawling 1,300-acre complex with the precarious precision of a Rube Goldberg machine. Just blocks from downtown Oakland, the port essentially functions as a city within a city. It is the nation’s ninth busiest port and the… Read More
Strong winds and rough surf have delayed work on a major re-nourishment project in Brevard County. Officials say they hope to complete the “South Beaches Engineered Dune” Project by May 1. However, weather conditions have forced the contractor to pause sand deliveries for several days. County officials say the practical thing to do is simply wait for… Read More
Heads up to anyone planning on transiting the Pascagoula River. In a press release sent out Friday, the Coast Guard asked people to stay alert thanks to a dredging operation taking place on the river. The operation is being carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers. The vessel E. Stroud can be found just… Read More
A large mound of sand staged at Coconut Point Park on Monday appeared to be where Brevard County said it’s pausing work on a multi-million dollar beach renourishment project because of rough weather conditions. All winter, operators of dump trucks, excavators and bulldozers worked toward moving a half-million ton of sand to rebuild south Brevard County beaches… Read More
Marine pollution from sunken vessels is predicted to reach its highest level this decade, with over 8,500 shipwrecks at risk of leaking approximately 6 billion gallons of oil. Lack of data and international cooperation means action is often too late to prevent serious harm to communities’ health and livelihoods, coastal economies, wildlife populations and ecosystems…. Read More