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By Joy Crist An audience of coastal leaders from across the country got a detailed look at the challenges facing Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island during a featured panel at the annual American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) Coastal Summit. The session, titled “Preserving Access to N.C. Coastal Villages and America’s First National Seashore,” brought together representatives… Read More
By Taylor Mills The Trump administration can’t turn over a federal wetlands dredge-and-fill permitting program to Florida, a federal appeals panel majority ruled Friday, because the Environmental Protection Agency and US Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t ensure that endangered species would remain protected. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a lower… Read More
By Tommy Reed The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether major oil companies can be forced to help pay for decades of damage to Louisiana’s vanishing coastline, and just as critically, whether those fights belong in local parish courthouses or in federal courtrooms. The answer could decide who actually writes the checks for marsh restoration,… Read More
In early April, the NOAA Ship Rainier will begin to map and characterize more than 8,000 square nautical miles of federal waters off Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This project is part of the Department of Commerce’s implementation of the U.S. Offshore Critical Minerals Mapping Plan, as described in President Trump’s Executive… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Jen Kiggans (VA-02) spoke before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water during Member Day, highlighting two important issues directly impacting Virginia’s Second District: advancing the Chincoteague Inlet feasibility study to address erosion challenges on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, and strengthening federal support and cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
Cecil County is making great progress in moving forward on the North East River dredging project. The project is scheduled to go out for solicitation at the end of May 2026, with bid opening anticipated around July 31, 2026. A contract award is expected in late August or early September 2026. The project will be… Read More
TYBEE ISLAND ― Twice each day, the outgoing tide on this beach near Savannah washes sand into the sea. And every seven years, with the help of federal taxpayers and suction dredges, the sand has returned to the shore to be enjoyed by sunbathers, sandcastle builders and shell hunters. Source
By Jenna Guzman MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – Officials provided an update Monday on ongoing beach renourishment work in Myrtle Beach. Horry County said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, has moved its equipment south of Singleton Swash. Operations were planned to continue in that area for about… Read More
SACRAMENTO – As the Trump administration threatens the health and well-being of our coastal waters, California continues to double down on protecting our oceans. Today, the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), in partnership with the California Ocean Science Trust, released the 2026 California Coast and Ocean Report – the first comprehensive, science-based assessment of coastal and ocean health in California history…. Read More
By WECT Staff OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) – Ocean Isle Beach will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 30 to discuss a proposed dredging project. The meeting will take place at 9 a.m. in the Town Meeting Hall, located at 111 Causeway Drive. Town officials said property owners will have the opportunity to… Read More
By Catherine Kozak Something potentially and significantly consequential is underway now in North Carolina that could alter management of the state’s increasingly battered Atlantic coastline. The state Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel is in the process of finalizing an analysis of beach erosion-control structures, a report that is expected to be submitted to the commission… Read More
By Will Thomas OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Dare County leaders and Hatteras and Ocracoke Island organizations are all in Washington, D.C., this week, attending an annual summit that will allow leaders and organizations around the country to see firsthand the challenges the area is facing and how they can help change that. “This is an… Read More
By Joe Oliveto As the name might imply, Kansas’ Tuttle Creek Lake — which is actually a man-made reservoir whose construction was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938 — consists primarily of, well, lots of water. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from working on a project that involves… Read More
By Conner Prince GRAND LAKE ST. MARYS, Ohio (WLIO) – Grand Lake St. Marys State Park is gearing up for this year’s dredging operations as their dredge crew is fully staffed for the first time in six years. Current plans include dredging at Bass Landing, Hidden Shores, Harbor Point, the campground lagoon area, Sandy Beach, the… Read More
By Gabriel San Roman San Clemente’s stunning coastline, which will serve as a backdrop to Olympic surfing in two years, has also turned into a battlefield over beach erosion. Construction crews, hopper dredges and bulldozers have worked to restore vanishing stretches of beach with much-needed sand. The city has also contracted a coastal administrator to… Read More