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OCEAN CITY, NJ — Using the citywide dredging permit, private owners in Ocean City can now arrange to have their boat slips dredged by a private contractor at their own expense. Ocean City’s 2021-22 back bay dredging program includes maintenance dredging at North Point Lagoon, Snug Harbor, Carnival Bayou, Venetian Bayou, Sunny Harbor Lagoon, South… Read More
There are a lot of firsts and significant investments in the newly minted state budget, and among the biggest of those that check both boxes is a broad array of new efforts to increase resiliency and decrease flooding — along with the kind of money that could make it happen. Remarkable as that might be,… Read More
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — North Carolina’s Marine Fisheries Commission has approved an updated version of the state’s Coastal Habitat Protection Plan, which experts say will improve the health of the state’s wetlands and estuaries, and increase communities’ resilience to climate change. Leda Cunningham, officer for conserving marine life in the United States at The Pew… Read More
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — For the beach towns in New Hanover County, the most significant expenditures in the state budget relate to beach renourishment. The compromise budget, signed by Gov. Roy Cooper last week, followed months of negotiations between his office and the General Assembly and was the last one passed this year in the country…. Read More
Dare County has received bids for the Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Manson Construction and Weeks Marine. The bids were opened on Wednesday, November 17, 2021; however, the proposals must still be evaluated for completeness before a specific bid can be recommended to the Dare County Board… Read More
Help sustain America’s reservoirs. We’re looking for ways to remove sedimentation that regularly accumulates in reservoirs. Challenge Overview Important update on intellectual property here. Reservoirs are bodies of stored fresh water that typically form behind dams. They are a critical water source, supplying farms with irrigation and providing potable water to people and homes. Increasingly,… Read More
(The Center Square) – The Biden administration will hold its first oil-and-gas land lease sale Wednesday morning after Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sued to overturn a federal moratorium in June. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, will livestream Lease Sale 257 from New Orleans…. Read More
By a vote of 8-6, the Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors lifted a months-long moratorium Nov. 17 on dredging the Highland Lakes, while also approving a newly-creating dredging ordinance that expands regulations for commercial operators. The nearly 40-page document adds a Tier III component for dredging activities which specifically addresses commercial dredging. Prior… Read More
If natural disasters are teaching moments for local governments, the past 13 years have been an extended remedial lesson for southeast Texas. The last two major hurricanes to hammer the Houston-Galveston region, Ike in 2008 and Harvey in 2017, exposed the weaknesses of our flood protection system. It soon became clear that Houston could no… Read More
An ongoing plan to clean out Ireland Creek and improve the beauty of the area continues to evolve, with new details from city leaders now being discussed. The update regarding dredging Ireland Creek was given during Walterboro City Council’s recent meeting, held on Nov. 9th. According to Walterboro City Manager Jeff Molinari, the city’s leaders… Read More
A groundbreaking ceremony was held today to mark the start of construction of Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S. The project will be 25 times the size of the country’s only existing offshore facility, located in Rhode Island. Vineyard Wind 1 will be operated by Vineyard Wind, a company… Read More
MASSENA — A milestone has been reached in the cleanup of the Grasse River Superfund site, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials. They said Thursday that dredging and capping work, which began in 2019, has been completed, with nearly a quarter million cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, removed and more… Read More
ATLANTIC BEACH — Coastal towns in North Carolina may soon need to create beach management plans, but towns on Bogue Banks are one step ahead. The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission held a business meeting Nov. 9 and 10 at the Doubletree by Hilton hotel in Atlantic Beach. The commission unanimously approved sending proposed rules to… Read More
Nov. 18—City leaders have a clearer picture of the costs and construction work needed to pursue a Lake Mitchell dredging project. Perhaps the most anticipated aspect of the preliminary dredging design that’s been underway since spring is identifying a price tag to dredge Lake Mitchell. And that number has come out to be roughly $15… Read More
TRAVERSE CITY — State environmental regulators denied a Long Lake Township property owner’s permit request to dredge in Long Lake and on its shore to build a boat house, basin and channel to them. The Department of Great Lakes, Environment and Energy found the request from the Carrie C. Barnes Trust would have an adverse… Read More