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The city of San Rafael would like to remind boaters to stay vigilant as dredging continues in the San Rafael Canal. “Boaters must exercise caution when passing the dredge in the channel,” the city of San Rafael said in a news release. According to the city, the Dredge DB‐Beaver is available on Channel 80 and… Read More
The November meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation featured more good news in regard to the ongoing Otter Creek Lake Restoration project – a project that began over a year ago and is finally full steam ahead. “As you can see, a lot happened since the last time you all were out here,” Conservation… Read More
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after the House passed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA) as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA): “As a longtime champion of coastal restoration and flood protection, I am happy to see many of the priorities… Read More
The federal government has just announced its most significant investment to date in nature-based projects aimed at creating “climate-ready” coastlines, and Chicago is among the communities that will benefit from this latest round of funding. The National Coastal Resilience Fund — a collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and… Read More
Restoring tidal flow to enclosed freshwater wetlands is key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping reach Australia’s carbon reduction targets a Griffith-led study found. Published in Restoration Ecology, the study compared the greenhouse gas emitted by impounded freshwater coastal wetlands with those from tidally connected mangrove and saltmarshes in the Queensland’s Burdekin catchment. “The freshwater impounded… Read More
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after the House passed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA) as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA): “As a longtime champion of coastal restoration and flood protection, I am happy to see many of the priorities… Read More
A pilot was distracted by his phone for a minute at a critical turn in a shipping channel just before the mammoth Ever Forward container vessel became stuck on the muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay earlier this year, according to a Coast Guard investigation into the incident. The ship’s crew appeared to be aware… Read More
A major bill set for passage by Congress is expected to eventually result in billions of dollars in flood risk reduction projects in Louisiana as well as trigger a review of whether New Orleans area levees should be further strengthened to protect against so-called 200-year storms. The projects are part of comprehensive water resources legislation passed… Read More
A 2,000 cubic foot per second freshwater diversion from the Mississippi River to the Maurepas Swamp has been proposed to compensate for environmental impacts related to the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Levee. Details regarding the diversion were included in a final supplemental environmental impact statement released December 2 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
Two significant dredging operations are happening in the Southport-Oak Island-Bald Head Island area. The smaller operation is pulling sand from the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW) for the west end of Oak Island. A larger operation will soon begin clearing two sections of the Wilmington Harbor shipping channel. That project will add sand to Bald Head’s… Read More
The director of St. Johns County Emergency Management gave county commissioners an update Tuesday on the various beach renourishment and restoration projects that are in the works — both in the short- and long-term. The county’s 42 miles of beach lost 1.9 million cubic yards of sand from Hurricane Ian. Officials haven’t yet calculated the… Read More
The Storm Lake City Council on Monday approved the master plan for the dredge spoil site in the southeast part of town. The council conducted a review of the plan at their previous meeting. City Manager Keri Navratil said the total cost for the project is close to seven-million dollars…(audio clip below) The plan is… Read More
The November meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation featured more good news in regard to the ongoing Otter Creek Lake Restoration project — a project that began over a year ago and is finally full steam ahead. “As you can see, a lot happened since the last time you all were out here,”… Read More
Lined with charter boats, old homes, restaurants and retail stores, Morehead City’s downtown waterfront has long been its biggest attraction, and a stone’s throw across the water, Sugarloaf Island has long helped protect the economic center of town from the brunt of coastal storms. But Sugarloaf, which was created when Harbor Channel was dredged decades… Read More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced on Tuesday that a record investment was made to help Louisiana communities with coastal flooding. The funding came from the Department of Defense and other private partners, totaling $136 million. Louisiana and 28 other states will receive money for natural infrastructure… Read More