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A new engineering project would bring much needed land to eroding marshes but at a huge cost to the fishing industry BATON ROUGE, La.—After Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast in August 2021, it took more than 100 lives and cost billions of dollars in damage. To some here, the storm was just one more… Read More
BATON ROUGE, LA – The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has released a draft version of the agency’s annual spending plan for Fiscal Year 2023, which runs from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023. The Integrated Ecosystem Restoration & Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana: Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Plan anticipates investing $1.3… Read More
The St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved funding and the hiring of a contractor Tuesday, Jan. 18, for the South Ponte Vedra Dune Restoration Project. This dredging and beach fill project spans the area starting from Serenata Beach and extending north for about five and a half miles. It is unrelated to… Read More
Discussion on the confined aquatic dredged disposal (CAD) site in Newport Harbor returned to the Newport Beach City Council dais again Tuesday, months after council members passed the plan. The city first looked into the construction of such a disposal site in 2019 after mercury-tainted sediment was discovered near the turning basin. The City Council… Read More
A new computer model from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science was recently chosen to replace an aging system used to guide the massive Chesapeake Bay restoration project. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the institute under William & Mary $1.6 million for SCHISM: the Semi-implicit Cross-scale Hydroscience Integrated System Model. The Chesapeake Bay Program… Read More
DEAL, N.J. — The weekend storm that brought rain and snow to much of New Jersey also caused significant erosion to a Jersey Shore beach that was already in the process of being widened. Now, federal and state officials are trying to determine whether additional sand needs to be pumped ashore to replace what was… Read More
Business Network provided an introductory offshore wind industry course to staff from 13 federal permitting agencies, including BOEM, EPA, U.S. Coast Guard, and more in partnership with FPISC BALTIMORE – More than 300 staff members from 13 federal permitting agencies joined the Business Network for Offshore Wind late last week for an offshore wind industry… Read More
The truth is that saltwater canal maintenance is not a line item on the Palm Coast budget because it is not necessary and there are far greater priorities. Dear Editor: Recently we have been hearing about this supposed “need” to spend what could amount to tens of millions of tax dollars to dredge our saltwater… Read More
On January 3, 2022, Caltrans and SANDAG NCC crews began work in partnership with the San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority (JPA) on Phase II of the San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Project in the city of San Diego. This project will restore 64 acres of land back to tidal salt marsh, another 15… Read More
Efforts to keep San Diego County beaches replenished with sand long has been an expensive and sometimes controversial endeavor It sounds like a coastal version of a range war. Yet instead of damming water upstream, Oceanside decided to move ahead with a pilot project to build a handful of beach groins similar to small jetties… Read More
The California Coastal Commission appealed the City of Pismo Beach’s approval for private seawalls for two beachfront houses experiencing erosion. This appeal comes a month after the City of Pismo Beach Planning Commission initially approved the plan for a 120-foot-long and 40-foot-high seawall for resident James Gentilcore’s beachfront estate. “We look at it from the… Read More
The Suffolk Department of Public Works announced Tuesday that the dredging of Bennett’s Creek was completed this January. The operation took 11 days to complete, with 14,881 cubic yards of dredged material removed and deposited at Craney Island. A 3,350-foot channel was dredged to a depth of 8 feet. The work was completed by the… Read More
Denmark is far ahead of Virginia on offshore wind. While the commonwealth is embarking on its first offshore wind development off the Virginia Beach coast, Denmark has spent decades building and refining its suite of more than 6,000 turbines. Virginia officials hope to learn from the European country what works, and what doesn’t. The two… Read More
By now everyone knows that the international supply chain that serves American commerce is overloaded because of a historic and sustained increase in the volume of goods that American businesses and consumers are buying from overseas. The biggest port delays are in Southern California, where at the end of last week more than 100 container… Read More
The Philadelphia rowing community says racing lanes and other areas need clearing or the city could lose its famed regattas. A halted dredging project to help rowers keep and maintain regattas on the Schuylkill will receive $5 million to restart — joyous news to those along Philadelphia’s famed Boathouse Row who have waited years for… Read More