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Longboat Key dredging continues

FL, United States

Longboat Key dredging continues Source

LNG Shipping Rates Poised to Sail Past $200,000 Per Day

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Traders are poised to shell out more than $200,000 a day to ship liquefied natural gas in the coming months as tankers grow scarce ahead of winter, when demand for the heating fuel peaks. Charter rates surged to $284,750 for November and $206,750 for October, more than doubling from current levels, according to data from… Read More

Niceville’s Boggy Bayou Headwaters Restoration improves water quality & wildlife habitat

FL, United States

The project was initiated by the City of Niceville through a BP oil spill grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. It addressed issues with water quality and habitat conditions near the Turkey Creek outfall into Boggy Bayou. The headwaters of Boggy Bayou in Niceville have undergone an extensive restoration project this year that is already… Read More

A Comprehensive Study Exploring Dredging Engineering Service Market | DEME, Van Oord, NMDC

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The Global Dredging Engineering Service Market study with 112+ market data Tables, Pie charts & Figures is now released by HTF MI. The research assessment of the Market is designed to analyze futuristic trends, growth factors, industry opinions, and industry-validated market facts to forecast till 2029, some of the players studied are China Communications Construction… Read More

Dredging project underway on Greer Island

FL, United States

A portion of the Greer Island beach will be closed through the beginning of September as a dredging project continues. According to the Town of Longboat Key’s Public Works Department, an area along the west side of Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island, is undergoing dredging of the sandspit near the dock area…. Read More

Kennedy: GOMESA cap unfairly targets Louisiana

LA, United States

Watch Kennedy’s full exchange here. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today raised questions about the fairness of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act’s (GOMESA) limits on revenue that Louisiana can receive. Kennedy and Louisiana’s Gov. John Bel Edwards, a witness at the hearing, agreed on the necessity of passing… Read More

Florida’s hurricane-restoration program threatens the future of its beaches | Opinion

FL, United States

The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is off to an aggressive start, with three named storms in the month of June for the first time in the history of recorded hurricanes. With this strong kickoff, many Floridians understandably are feeling a sense of unease following the devastating hurricane season of 2022, compounded by the lingering effects… Read More

Army Corps scuttles all Pinellas beach renourishment projects

FL, United States

City commissioners were surprised and confounded to learn the Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District told Pinellas County that none of its beach renourishment projects are moving forward, even though they were ready to go out to bid, because some beachfront property owners refuse to grant the federal government perpetual public access easements to come… Read More

Dune restoration could increase the resilience of Southern California’s urban beaches to sea level rise

CA, United States

Over the last several years, the residents of Santa Monica, a coastal city on the edge of Los Angeles, saw something neither they, their parents, or perhaps even their grandparents had ever seen before: a three-foot-tall dune system rising gently from the flat, groomed expanse of one of the world’s most famous urban beaches. It’s… Read More

Lamont talks dredging, aquaculture in visit to Mystic, Noank

CT, United States

Ron Helbig, managing partner of Mystic Shipyard, led Gov. Ned Lamont and officials on a tour Thursday morning of the Essex Street facility in Mystic, pointing out features from the pressure wash recycling equipment to the rigging areas. Helbig said during a news conference that the shipyard has a long heritage of shipbuilding and he… Read More

Floodplain concerns halt Lake Logan dredging

OH, United States

In February The Logan Daily News reported that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources was making preparations to dredge Lake Logan to reduce a build-up of organic material in the lake, but had not yet started the project. ODNR subsequently began the dredging, and was depositing the silt and other material removed from the lake on… Read More

Dr. Murphy and Dare County to Advance Beach Nourishment Efforts

NC, United States

Today, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, Robert L. “Bob” Woodard, Sr., issued the following statements regarding federal funding for a feasibility study performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on beach nourishment for the village of Rodanthe. “I am delighted to work with Dare County… Read More

Maintenance Dredging To Benefit New Jersey Rivers

NJ, United States

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has begun a maintenance dredging campaign on the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers in New Jersey. The USACE will dredge both the entrance of the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers at Sandy Hook as well as the Navesink River to Red Bank and the Shrewsbury River as far as the… Read More

Dredging estimates at Tarentum pump house nearly double; work likely delayed

PA, United States

Dredging at the Tarentum pump house likely will be postponed after bids came in nearly double what was expected. The work helps make sure that the facility operates efficiently and reduces the amount of particulates to be filtered out at the water treatment plant. Borough Manager Dwight Boddorf said council usually budgets $130,000 for the… Read More

Damning Harbor dredging evidence learned from arbitration hearing

CA, United States

The Triplicate has learned through internal communications between a past harbormasterand elected commissioners, evidence that contradicts Harbor claims the District was unaware of critical dredging priorities back in May of 2015. The evidence submitted helped arbitrators decide in favor of a $1.9 million Harbor award for Fashion Blacksmith in its lawsuit against the harbor. The… Read More

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