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Edmonds Marsh restoration work continued Saturday through an all-volunteer project to restore freshwater flows in the marsh. In past years, volunteers removed chain-link fencing along Highway 104 that was blocking Shellabarger Creek as well as removing the nightshade that used the chain-link to spread into the marsh. This year’s focus — running between July 15… Read More
In Bethany Beach sand breaks have formed making a drop separating the beach from the water. Bethany is fresh off beach replenishment being completed and Joe Donnelly, the Lifeguard Captain for the Bethany Beach Patrol said this happening is not uncommon. “The water has cut that sand that’s been built up away a little bit… Read More
After intense negotiations, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) — a United Nations-backed agency with jurisdiction over international waters — has agreed to postpone discussions on commercial deep-sea mining, at least for now. Environmentalists viewed the decision as a hopeful step toward protecting fragile marine ecosystems from companies and countries eager to extract rare minerals from… Read More
Traders are poised to shell out more than $200,000 a day to ship liquefied natural gas in the coming months as tankers grow scarce ahead of winter, when demand for the heating fuel peaks. Charter rates surged to $284,750 for November and $206,750 for October, more than doubling from current levels, according to data from… Read More
The project was initiated by the City of Niceville through a BP oil spill grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. It addressed issues with water quality and habitat conditions near the Turkey Creek outfall into Boggy Bayou. The headwaters of Boggy Bayou in Niceville have undergone an extensive restoration project this year that is already… Read More
The Global Dredging Engineering Service Market study with 112+ market data Tables, Pie charts & Figures is now released by HTF MI. The research assessment of the Market is designed to analyze futuristic trends, growth factors, industry opinions, and industry-validated market facts to forecast till 2029, some of the players studied are China Communications Construction… Read More
A portion of the Greer Island beach will be closed through the beginning of September as a dredging project continues. According to the Town of Longboat Key’s Public Works Department, an area along the west side of Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island, is undergoing dredging of the sandspit near the dock area…. Read More
Watch Kennedy’s full exchange here. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today raised questions about the fairness of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act’s (GOMESA) limits on revenue that Louisiana can receive. Kennedy and Louisiana’s Gov. John Bel Edwards, a witness at the hearing, agreed on the necessity of passing… Read More
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is off to an aggressive start, with three named storms in the month of June for the first time in the history of recorded hurricanes. With this strong kickoff, many Floridians understandably are feeling a sense of unease following the devastating hurricane season of 2022, compounded by the lingering effects… Read More
City commissioners were surprised and confounded to learn the Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District told Pinellas County that none of its beach renourishment projects are moving forward, even though they were ready to go out to bid, because some beachfront property owners refuse to grant the federal government perpetual public access easements to come… Read More
Over the last several years, the residents of Santa Monica, a coastal city on the edge of Los Angeles, saw something neither they, their parents, or perhaps even their grandparents had ever seen before: a three-foot-tall dune system rising gently from the flat, groomed expanse of one of the world’s most famous urban beaches. It’s… Read More
Ron Helbig, managing partner of Mystic Shipyard, led Gov. Ned Lamont and officials on a tour Thursday morning of the Essex Street facility in Mystic, pointing out features from the pressure wash recycling equipment to the rigging areas. Helbig said during a news conference that the shipyard has a long heritage of shipbuilding and he… Read More
In February The Logan Daily News reported that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources was making preparations to dredge Lake Logan to reduce a build-up of organic material in the lake, but had not yet started the project. ODNR subsequently began the dredging, and was depositing the silt and other material removed from the lake on… Read More
Today, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, Robert L. “Bob” Woodard, Sr., issued the following statements regarding federal funding for a feasibility study performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on beach nourishment for the village of Rodanthe. “I am delighted to work with Dare County… Read More