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Fairfax County is holding two public meetings this week to discuss the future of Lake Accotink Park after a new analysis of a multiyear plan for the lake found dredging to be too costly and disruptive. The analysis determined that the annual cost to dredge and maintain Lake Accotink over the next 25 years would… Read More
Dredging at Dysart’s Great Harbor Marina will now start on Feb. 21 and continue through March 31. Work was originally set for Feb. 6 through March 23. Operations will be conducted daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with approximately six round trips of material disposal to the Eastern Passage Site in Blue Hill Bay,… Read More
A permit request for a temporary dredge pipe about 7,500 feet long has been requested by Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. The requested maintenance dredge pipe and booster station is for maintenance dredging to access a disposal area the Navy originally planned to take offline while a permanent pipe was rerouted. The Navy changed plans… Read More
Dredging is set to wrap up in and around the Channel Islands Harbor later this month. Crews are still working at the entrance to the harbor. The $15 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project has contracted with Manson Construction to remove sand. The sand is being pumped from the harbor down to the beach… Read More
The plan to carry out a major dredging operation to save Lake Accotink is not expected to go forward, Braddock Supervisor James Walkinshaw reports. New cost estimates make the project untenable. Instead, the county will start over with the development of a new Master Plan for Lake Accotink Park. Without dredging, the lake will eventually disappear and… Read More
Following the adjusted rates of select boat slips at the Belmar Manutti Marina, the Harbor Commission is working to implement routine dredging at the marina to address existing problems regarding “undesirable” boat slips that it has had difficulty renting out due to their poor conditions, according to Councilman Mark Levis. The councilman said that the… Read More
With their plans to process dredged soil at a rail-connected industrial site on the Thames River on hold, Massachusetts-based Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting is now pushing to develop the rest of the 165-acre site into a complex of industrial buildings. Cashman Vice President Allen Perrault presented a conceptual plan to the Ledyard Planning and Zoning Commission… Read More
Sandwich Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham gave the board of selectmen some bad news about sand on Thursday night. For several years, the town has been asking the US Army Corps of Engineers to dump the sand from the Corps’ periodic dredging of the Cape Cod Canal onto Sandwich’s eroding beach. The town also… Read More
SAND has been extracted from Lough Neagh for more than a century. Workers initially used shovels to remove sand for use in building projects. But over the decades, extraction has become a major business. Companies now use suction hoses and dredgers more than 60 metres in length to remove more than a million tonnes of… Read More
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Shawn Hamilton issues the following statement regarding Governor DeSantis’ submittal of his proposed Framework for Freedom Budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24 to the Florida Legislature. “Last month, Governor DeSantis signed Executive Order 23-06, which called for over $3.5 billion to be invested in Everglades restoration and Florida’s water resources over the… Read More
A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a storm can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to recover $21 million it spent bulking up its shoreline, but cannot build a bulkhead to permanently thwart the waves, a judge ruled Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Michael… Read More
Fort Myers Beach Town Council taking important steps Monday in revitalizing the beach and Estero Island. Council approved beach nourishment plans, including the placement of emergency berms to ease future flooding. But not everyone is on board with the plan at hand. “There’s over 200,000 yards of erosion that occurred on the beach.” It’s an… Read More
February 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the California Coastal Commission (CCC). The governing body’s role as planning commission for the 1,100 miles of California coastline was authorized by California voters in November 1972 with passage of Proposition 20. The initiative was launched after efforts to pass coastal protection legislation had been approved in the… Read More
Dare County has announced that Miss Katie—the 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge that is tasked with tackling shoaling issues in various waterways throughout the region under the direction of the Oregon Inlet Task Force—completed a 10-day dredging project in Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Miss Katie began dredging Hatteras Inlet on Friday, January 27,… Read More
Dare County has announced that Miss Katie—the 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge that is tasked with tackling shoaling issues in various waterways throughout the region under the direction of the Oregon Inlet Task Force—completed a 10-day dredging project in Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Miss Katie began dredging Hatteras Inlet on Friday, January 27,… Read More