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The City of Hamilton says it’s eager to get cleanup work started following a four-year spillage of 24 billion litres of sewage into Chedoke Creek, but warned Friday it cannot guarantee completion within an “unexpected” revised timeline the province recently set. Thursday, city council voted to appeal an amended provincial order for the Chedoke Creek Remediation project, which is expected to cost $6… Read More
U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del., all) announced today that the $25 million from the US Army Corps of Engineers will go to renourishment projects for Delaware bay beaches. The benefiting beaches include Lewes Beach, Kitts Hummock, Bowers Beach, Slaughter Beach, and Pickering Beach. The restoration projects were authorized through… Read More
South Portland is trying a unique approach to help restore the dunes at Willard Beach. According to the city’s conservation manager Kristina Ertzner, around 15 to 20 feet of dunes were washed away during a powerful rain and wind storm in late December 2022. “It was kind of easy for water to get through, and wave action… Read More
The city has filed a Chapter 91 Waterways permit application under the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Waterways Regulation Program to conduct improvement dredging at Brown’s Pond. The process will mechanically remove invasive aquatic plants and nuisance native aquatic weeds in selected portions of the pond. “This is just the beginning of the process, but… Read More
‘A beach that’s covered by homes and hotels, and retreat is simply not possible.’ A document setting out federal fishery managers’ opposition to beach renourishment and, should it occur, best management practices is headed back to an advisory panel after concerns about how it would affect Florida. The policy document begins, “In general, frequent and widespread beach… Read More
Some residents want the state to draw a line in the sand when it comes to how much taxpayer money will go toward costly beach nourishment in Kāʻanapali that isn’t guaranteed to work. “Previous projects have proved to be a waste of tax dollars,” Maui community organizer and Lahaina native Tiare Lawrence said on Wednesday…. Read More
Ontario’s Ontario’s Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) is giving the City of Hamilton until Aug. 31 to complete a clean-up of Chedoke Creek. In an email to Global News, spokesperson Gary Wheeler said that the city has “no need to delay clean up activities” and that the city has been instructed to begin… Read More
The long-planned improvement to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor remains on track for completion this fall, representatives of the federal Army Corps of Engineers told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday, but a delay to fall 2024 is possible. The improvements are a deepening and widening of the channel. The inlet to Lake… Read More
As New River Dredging project nears completion, East Ascension Drainage Board approved funding to engage H Davis Cole engineers to oversee installation of a control structure in place of the waterway’s weir. 62,000 cubic yards have been excavated from channel (95% of the way done with dredging beneath the KCS Railroad bridge all that remains)… Read More
The Climate, Labor, and Environmental Equity Act seeks to require the Maryland Department of Environment to look at a whole community, and any projects in it that may already be contributing to air and water pollution when making the decision to green light permitting for additional projects. “It allows MDE to look at what are… Read More
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed $6 billion in reductions to California’s climate change programs in response… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will pump up to 200,000 cubic yards of offshore sand onto the south end of Pawleys Island next winter as part of a $14 million project to repair damage from Hurricane Ian. The agency’s announcement last week fulfilled a promise town officials made when they agreed to let the Corps… Read More
By Wayne J. D’Angelo (New York) , Joseph Green (Los Angeles), Zachary Lee (Washington) and Sabrina Eve Morelli (New York) Kelley Drye & Warren LLP The definition of the phrase “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS), encompassing the jurisdictional reach of the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act) and the related Oil Pollution Act of 1990, has been a source of… Read More
Contractors are roughly halfway through the dredging project that is moving nearly one-million cubic yards of sand and silt from the Wilmington Harbor shipping channel, with the beach-quality sand going onto Bald Head Island’s South Beach. Marinex’s Savannah is a cutter-head suction dredge with a 7,300-kilowatt power plant. When she’s not at work, locals can… Read More
Large storms can devastate coastal communities when no buffers exist to protect them. But salt marshes, which are coastal wetlands flooded and drained by salt water from the tides, can shield buildings and homes. “When Hurricane Sandy hit, if we didn’t have salt marshes there, a lot of homes would actually be more damaged,” said… Read More