It's on us. Share your news here.
It's on us. Share your news here.
GLDD calendar for June 2025 features Cutter Suction Dredge Illinois performing hydraulic dredging and beach placement for the North Wildwood Emergency Beach Nourishment Dredging Project, City of North Wildwood, New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT). (Photo: NJDOT) Also shown, GLDD’s Mark Reid shaking hands with North Wildwood Mayor Patrick Rosenello at… Read More
DETROIT – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District is scheduled to begin maintenance dredging operations in the federal navigation channel Sunday, June 1 in New Buffalo Harbor. The dredging will remove about 15,000 cubic yards of shoaling in the harbor, which will be then used for renourishment about 1,500 feet south of the South… Read More
Thanks to Rep. Steve Scalise, Louisiana may soon score a major win for coastal restoration and hurricane protection in a bill being considered in Congress. While there has been much talk about the “reconciliation” bill in Congress with regard to extending the Trump tax cuts and tackling border security, this “one big, beautiful bill” drafted… Read More
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is partnering with Phillips 66 to plant 10,000 plugs of marsh grasses in Cameron Parish in early June. The nonprofit organization will recruit as many as 60 volunteers to plant the spartina alterniflora in an area of degraded marsh east of Calcasieu Lake. Phillips 66 employees will be among… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will continue expansion work near Houston. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port Houston have been addressing the need to evolve the area’s busy shipping complex over the past several years with a massive, ongoing project to expand the Houston Ship Channel. That project just got another financial boost from the Army… Read More
CAROLINA BEACH, NC — Carolina Beach Town Council met for a budget workshop meeting Tuesday before the town’s final budget proposal is presented next month. During the meeting, council voted unanimously to support a state bill that would hold PFAS polluters financially responsible for filtering the forever chemical out of public water supplies. That bill passed the… Read More
A study done for the City of Bloomington estimated dredging Lake Bloomington could cost $35 million. Updated survey results from a late 1990s study of the bottom of the lake led experts to recommend that it should be dredged to remove sedimentation and silt. The lake was constructed in 1929 and has never been dredged…. Read More
Annual awards program recognizes the top safety programs in the maritime industry MOBILE, Ala. — The American Equity Underwriters, Inc., the leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance for waterfront employers, announces the winners of the 2024 AEU Safety Awards. AEU, the program administrator for American Longshore Mutual Association (ALMA), a group self-insurance fund providing USL&H coverage… Read More
Wildlife Conservation Board Grant will help fund work at Bombay Beach Wetlands (Sacramento, Calif.) – The California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) has approved a grant of $5,231,066 towards Audubon California’s Bombay Beach Wetland Enhancement projects, a critical step in restoring and expanding 564 acres of wetland habitat at the Salton Sea. This project, located near… Read More
A project to pump sand onto Carolina and Kure beaches was supposed to happen this winter, but rising costs mean it will now only start in the fall after the upcoming hurricane season A year later than expected, the sandman is finally coming to Pleasure Island. After the project was buffeted by financial headwinds last… Read More
According to Accomack County Administrator Mike Mason, the Virginia Port Authority and Rocket Lab USA are moving forward with plans to improve rocket delivery access to Wallops Island. The two have submitted a joint permit application to dredge a channel known as Sloop Gut, connecting to the Old North Dock on the island’s backshore. The… Read More
A study done for the City of Bloomington estimates the cost to dredge Lake Bloomington at more than $35 million. “And that doesn’t include the drying beds. We would need to acquire land to lay out that silt and whatnot to dry so we can dispose of it,” said Deputy City Manager Sue McLaughlin. McLaughlin said it is… Read More
Following criticism from the Louisiana governor’s office, the New Orleans Engineer District has suspended its permit for the proposed $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD), a project that was the central and most expensive part of the state’s coastal restoration plan. Col. Cullen A. Jones, commander of the New Orleans District, informed the Louisiana Coastal… Read More
The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association is proud to release our annual awards of the nation’s Best Restored Beaches. The award-winning projects this year are the Canaveral Harbor Sand Bypass Project, Cape Canaveral, FL; Encinitas and Solana Beach Storm Damage Reduction Project, Encinitas, CA; McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge Beach and Dune Ridge Restoration Project,… Read More
Urgent Help Needed: Lake Houston Dredging District Bill Gets One Last Chance The Texas Senate Local Government Committee will hear testimony on HB1532, the Lake Houston Dredging District bill, on Monday, May 26, 2025 – Memorial Day beginning at 9 AM. Most people had given up on the bill and considered it effectively dead for this session. But… Read More