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The start date for a long-planned beach replenishment project in northern Ocean County has been pushed back to summer or fall, and local leaders have expressed concern that the work could begin in the heart of the tourist season. Bids for the project — which has an estimated $60 million cost — were opened late last week,… Read More
A raft of barges carrying a crane and other dredging equipment arrives off Plum Island on Tuesday afternoon. Norfolk Dredging Company’s dredge Delaware is expected to arrive Thursday and may begin dredging as soon as Sunday. Source
The only U.S. beach that ranked #1 recently on the world’s best list will apparently not be restored. At least so went Friday’s decision by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Board. The plan had been to bring enough sand from off-shore onto Kaanapali Beach to hopefully provide at least 15 more years… Read More
Brick Township is expected to acquire a 3.2 acre property – about a third of which is underwater – as a donation from its owner. The township council has unanimously to accept the donation of marshland off the Cedar Bridge Manor neighborhood. The marshland is located on a plot that fans out behind Eastern Lane,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers delayed beach replenishment until April 8, due to extension of a project currently underway in New Jersey. Originally, the projected was slated to begin in late March and go from Rehoboth Beach to Fenwick Island. As the lowest-lying state in the country, Delaware coasts and the state as a… Read More
In Brunswick County, one local beach town is considering a new way of trying to tackle beach erosion. Over the years, the town of Ocean Isle has been working to build the beaches and dunes back up after erosion due to storms. Many solutions the town has tried haven’t worked, so they have decided to… Read More
On Haven Beach on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula, trees are dying as the surrounding marshlands slowly convert into ponds. As the sea continues to rise, salt from the Chesapeake Bay is more easily sprayed through the wind onto surrounding flora, destroying it. The marshes are also becoming more susceptible to invasive plant life that thrives on… Read More
After the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control announced a delay for the White Creek dredging project, people are calling for an extension of the dredging window. The project was initially scheduled for completion March 31 to comply with existing seasonal dredging restrictions established to protect wildlife and natural resources. DNREC said that dredging projects… Read More
Pools of water glint in the thin winter light at the Old Pond salt marsh, a refuge for shorebirds and a travel way for fish, clams and lobsters, along with smaller aquatic life. But that pooling water signals a dying marsh. “It’s like an overwatered house plant,” Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) conservation planner Jeremy… Read More
In an effort to help restore the Everglades Ecosystem, construction of a large pump station has officially begun to help rehydrate coastal wetlands and prevent too much freshwater discharge into Biscayne Bay. It has been 20 years in the making, but on Tuesday Miami-Dade County leaders got to toss the ceremonial dirt signifying the start… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) commenced channel maintenance dredging efforts in Southwest Pass for Fiscal Year 2023 on January 29, 2023, with the hopper dredge GLENN EDWARDS (Manson Construction) dredging under Southwest Pass Hopper Dredge Rental Contract #2-2021. The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen… Read More
At a news conference Friday morning in a Fort Myers restaurant, hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis to discuss ongoing Hurricane Ian recovery efforts in South Florida, a local man named Stanley got choked up as he tried to describe how the storm changed his life. “I lost everything except a car and some clothes that I evacuated… Read More
The province has relented on its oft-changing Chedoke Creek cleanup deadline and will now give the city until the end of October to dredge sewage sludge out of the spill-prone waterway. But the latest compromise does not resolve the disagreement with an Indigenous group that prevented a cleanup last summer. Ontario originally ordered a creek cleanup after The… Read More
There’s been a sometimes-smelly problem in one Arvada neighborhood. The city is currently restoring Lake Arbor, which is located inside a mostly-residential community in the eastern part of the city. The city says the project has two goals for this multi-million dollar project: Improve public safety by stabilizing the banks Improve water quality and remove unpleasant… Read More
During Tuckerton borough’s March 6 council meeting, Councilman Brian Martin gave an update on Lanyard Lagoon. According to Martin, the borough engineer submitted for the grant extension on December 1, 2022. “We just have not received that official extension back from the DEP.” Martin said the DEP reassured council that Tuckerton’s application is still in… Read More