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East Hampton Town and Suffolk County officials are pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move up its fall 2025 schedule to dredge the navigational channel at Montauk Harbor,… Source
FAIRFIELD — After months of waiting with multiple delays, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its high-demand dredging boat have arrived to widen the mouth of Southport Harbor. The harbor’s dredging is a long-awaited federal project that will dig up a corner of a shoal sticking into the harbor from the edge of Sasco Beach to clear… Read More
With the passage of Act 8 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2005 (Act 8), the Louisiana legislature mandated the integration of hurricane protection activities (e.g., levee construction) and coastal restoration activities (e.g., river diversions or marsh creation). Act 8 also created the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board (CPRA Board) and tasked it with… Read More
Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is gearing up for a significant fiscal 2026, with an anticipated $1.8 billion budget aimed at flood risk reduction, coastal restoration, and economic impact. The agency continues to prioritize construction, allocating 80% of its funding — approximately $1.44 billion — toward ground-level projects that protect and restore Louisiana’s vulnerable… Read More
NEW YORK – After carefully considering public comment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its third periodic review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA looked at all the project data for water, fish and sediment collected between 2016-2021, and the fish data from 2022. The EPA’s review concludes… Read More
Two hurricanes in the span of 13 days. Another hurricane from two years ago that is considered to be the worst to every hit Southwest Florida in terms of lost life and damage. Add all of that up and the clean-up of the canals on Fort Myers Beach is tall order. Just when it feels like there… Read More
The Barnstable County dredge is removing sand from the Bass River and piping it to a spot on West Dennis Beach. Watch crews at work. Source
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Following the wreckage of Hurricanes Ian and Debby, the coastline suffered severe erosion which will be renourished by a United States Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District-funded contract, the city said Thursday. The $72 million contract was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company which intends to place two million… Read More
The long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit in a shallow South Portland cove where seven decades of a working waterfront’s industrial sins will be buried over the next three winters. Cashman Dredging of Massachusetts will use a barge-mounted crane to dig a confined aquatic… Read More
OPP and fire officials discussed ice safety related to this winter’s ice dredging program at the Port of Orillia. “We want to get the message out to everybody – the locals and the visitors – to avoid the Port of Orillia this winter and any of the ice down here,” said Chris Ferry, Orillia’s fire… Read More
NAVARRE, Fla. (WKRG) — Crews have been working around the clock on Navarre Beach, making headway in the beach restoration project. Crews have been pumping in sand from about five miles offshore and distributing it onto the beach. The work has been done in phases from Gulf Islands National Seashore to about 900 ft east… Read More
The Newport Beach City Council may have ended years of back and forth over the disposal of contaminated sediment dredged from Newport Harbor after approving a plan Tuesday to use it for a pier extension project in Long Beach. The move is similar to how the city handled the muck scooped up when the Rhine… Read More
DuBOIS — Snow and freezing temperatures have not slowed progress of the Treasure Lake dredging project. Started in September by drawing down the lake’s water level by 10 feet, workers are currently conducting heavy machinery near New Providence Beach, with an estimated 80,000 yards of sediment to be removed. The $3.1 million project is necessary… Read More
A full dredging and cleanup of the serpentine in Crescent Park is slated to take place in 2026, according to the city’s five-year capital budget. The budget shows that the Department of Community Services will be looking to spend $250,000 in 2026 for the dredging. Many of the issues with the serpentine over the past… Read More
RODANTHE – The North Carolina Department of Transportation is set to begin work Friday rebuilding dunes and placing sandbags on a severely erosion-threatened stretch of N.C. Highway 12 here. Department officials are calling the $400,000 project on an 1,100-foot stretch of highway “a temporary solution to protect the highway from ocean overwash caused by extreme… Read More