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The summer sun was sinking in the sky and casting a warm glow over the marsh as Klamath tribal member Garin Riddle and his family paddled their kayaks through the browning patches of wocus plants floating in the water near Southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake. “I see one!” 9-year-old Knala Riddle cried out. She plunged… Read More
Turns out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has South Carolina roots. The late U.S. Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings played a big role in establishing NOAA in 1970 and championed policies to safeguard the coast, ocean and its resources. Fast forward five and half decades, and the agency has a significant presence in the Palmetto… Read More
BARNARD, Mo. — Barnard leaders are focused on the city lagoon and its needs to meet state and federal requirements. Barnard Mayor Glenn Miller met with the Nodaway County Commission Thursday, Feb. 6, providing an update on the city and requesting funds for a dredging project. He told the commission that there is a lot… Read More
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Dredging at the Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach will begin Feb. 17 for 5-6 weeks, the town said in a statement. The Army Corps is expected to dredge 191,000 cubic yards of sand from the entrance to the channel for 2-3 weeks, and then pump the material onto the adjacent… Read More
Washington DC [US] February 16 (ANI): Chinese and Hong Kong businesses’ control of important infrastructure on the Panama Canal and other port facilities in the Western Hemisphere has prompted calls for Washington to take measures to lessen Beijing’s influence. According to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA), Beijing has “a strategic position over one… Read More
After a little more than two months of work, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control said the first phase of a beach replenishment project immediately north of the Indian River Inlet is nearing completion. The emergency fortification project, estimated to cost between $25 million and $28 million, started in late November, following… Read More
Sparrows Point Container Terminal – Episode 3 – Dredging Source
BROOKSVILLE, Maine (WGME) — A plan to dredge a small Midcoast town’s shoreline could make the local fishermen’s lives much easier, as they currently have to work around the tide schedule at the only public landing. Brooksville officials have been hoping to dredge about 250 feet out from the shore of Betsy’s Cove, since the… Read More
NORTH CAROLINA — A superior court judge ruled the Coastal Resources Commission acted within its authority by implementing rules to safeguard the state’s coastal habitats. The agency’s power was challenged by a general assembly-appointed body that lawmakers recently sent an additional $250,000 in taxpayer funds to finance outside legal counsel. Wake County Superior Court judge… Read More
Part of the St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph could be dredged this spring. We reported last year on Berrien County’s efforts to secure a grant to allow for dredging around the island as boaters reported the water becoming too shallow for navigation. Berrien County Community Development Director Dan Fette had an… Read More
President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal funding shows little sign of thawing for climate, energy and environmental justice programs. Despite two federal court orders directing the administration to resume distributing federal grants and loans, at least $19 billion in Environmental Protection Agency funding to thousands of state and local governments and nonprofits remained on hold… Read More
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, will begin maintenance dredging of the Palm Beach Harbor, Palm Beach County, Florida, on or around March 3, 2025. The project was awarded to Weeks Marine Inc. of Covington, Louisiana, on November 22, 2024. The contract amount is $10,125,750.00. The Dredge E.W. Ellefson, a cutter/suction… Read More
MARTIN COUNTY — A contaminated site here along the St. Lucie Canal is expected to be cleaned up and developed into a marine operation for nearly $9 million. The plans are likely to come to fruition following the County Commission’s decision Tuesday to designate the land as a brownfield, where expansion, redevelopment or reuse “may… Read More
The lack of progress on planned dredging work at the Brunswick Harbor by the Army Corps of Engineers is raising questions by U.S. Sens. Jon Offoff and Raphael Warnock, the state’s voices in the U.S. Senate. The two Democrats have sent a letter to Corps leadership expressing “alarm over the Corps’ failure to dredge the… Read More
A $6.7 million project to restore almost 3 miles of island sand dunes destroyed by hurricanes Ian and Nicole is now more than halfway completed, according to county officials. Crews staged on Sea Court in John’s Island are working around the Beachcomber Lane area, including Sea Forest and Village Shores neighborhoods. So far the project… Read More