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BILOXI, Miss. — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday a list of 16 restoration projects that will be funded through the RESTORE Act. The 16 projects will add more than $62 million to the total of more than $570 million already being spent on restoration projects in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil… Read More
The Kansas City Engineer District has received what it calls “critical assistance” from the St. Paul Engineer District in a pilot project. The project will deal with sediment that had created shallow areas in the Missouri River shipping channel. That assistance came in the form of the St. Paul District’s 20-inch cutterhead suction dredge Goetz…. Read More
The ecological health of the 10,000-square-mile Lake Pontchartrain Basin will be the focus of $53 million in grants in the federal infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden plans to sign Monday. About $10.5 million will be distributed annually over the next five years by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a variety of programs aimed at… Read More
State expects billions to invest in roads, bridges and broadband access In Louisiana, reportedly about 400,000 to 500,000 households don’t have broadband access, but the state official in charge of broadband development said he believes that’s a lowball estimate. With Louisiana expected to receive $7.2 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the funding… Read More
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced awards for 103 wastewater and springs projects totaling $481 million to improve water quality in water bodies across Florida. “These awards are going to make a big difference for our world-renowned springs and water quality all throughout the state of Florida,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Florida’s water… Read More
NOAA announced on 9 November it is seeking public comment on the “first steps” of designating a new national marine sanctuary in a 7,000-square-mile area off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The new area would be adjacent to California’s San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, according to NOAA. “The designation of… Read More
Dominion Energy said that escalating materials and supply costs will jack up the price tag of its 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project by over 20% to $9.8 billion. The planned array of 176 Siemens Gamesa 14.7-megawatt turbines, planned to begin operation in 2026, is the largest U.S. offshore wind project now in development, and Dominion… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a virtual meeting Dec. 7 to consider the draft final report on the pipeline strike and subsequent explosion and fire aboard the dredging vessel Waymon Boyd in Texas last year. On Aug. 21, 2020, the Waymon Boyd struck a submerged 16″ hazardous liquid propane pipeline during dredging operations in Corpus… Read More
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — City Council plans to move forward as early as next week on a proposed “resolution of concurrence” allowing for the removal of Horseshoe Lake dam, as recommended by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD). The directive to the city law department came Monday (Nov. 8) during a follow-up meeting with… Read More
ST. JAMES — Years ago, the phrase “living shoreline” wasn’t well known in North Carolina outside of, say, the circles of coastal scientists and researchers. “I don’t recall that at the time we used the term ‘living shoreline’ as much as we do today,” chuckled Taylor Ryan of St. James in Brunswick County. He’s project… Read More
The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) announced the return of its two offshore wind grant programs for Fiscal Year 2022 — the Maryland Offshore Wind Capital Expenditure Grant Program and the Maryland Offshore Wind Workforce Training Grant Program. These programs are designed to establish an offshore wind supply chain in Maryland by supporting local businesses —… Read More
Mayor Harris: Beardstown Marina Hits Snags Due to High Water, Permits but Several Pieces Still Moving Forward The Beardstown Marina project has hit a couple of snags over the last few months, but things are starting to turn around. Mayor Tim Harris says that the campground at the marina is hoping to open this coming… Read More
The breach, caused by the severe weather over the weekend, is causing those beachfront homes along A1A to be nearly surrounded by water. MARINELAND, Fla. — New photos and videos from the air show a bird’s-eye view of a breach in the sand dunes along the coast between Marineland and Matanzas Inlet in St. Johns… Read More
The First Nations and municipal leaders asking for a collaborative approach to develop a secondary channel dredging program for the lower Fraser River Local mayors and First Nations’ chiefs are once again urging the prime minister to take action on local channel dredging in the lower Fraser River. In a recent letter jointly signed by… Read More
There was a time when travelers in leisure boats might have flipped a coin before deciding whether to risk running aground in Georgia’s stretch of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) or bypassing the state via the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for maintaining a channel depth of at least 12 feet… Read More