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Some residents want the state to draw a line in the sand when it comes to how much taxpayer money will go toward costly beach nourishment in Kāʻanapali that isn’t guaranteed to work. “Previous projects have proved to be a waste of tax dollars,” Maui community organizer and Lahaina native Tiare Lawrence said on Wednesday…. Read More
Ontario’s Ontario’s Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) is giving the City of Hamilton until Aug. 31 to complete a clean-up of Chedoke Creek. In an email to Global News, spokesperson Gary Wheeler said that the city has “no need to delay clean up activities” and that the city has been instructed to begin… Read More
The long-planned improvement to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor remains on track for completion this fall, representatives of the federal Army Corps of Engineers told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday, but a delay to fall 2024 is possible. The improvements are a deepening and widening of the channel. The inlet to Lake… Read More
As New River Dredging project nears completion, East Ascension Drainage Board approved funding to engage H Davis Cole engineers to oversee installation of a control structure in place of the waterway’s weir. 62,000 cubic yards have been excavated from channel (95% of the way done with dredging beneath the KCS Railroad bridge all that remains)… Read More
The Climate, Labor, and Environmental Equity Act seeks to require the Maryland Department of Environment to look at a whole community, and any projects in it that may already be contributing to air and water pollution when making the decision to green light permitting for additional projects. “It allows MDE to look at what are… Read More
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed $6 billion in reductions to California’s climate change programs in response… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will pump up to 200,000 cubic yards of offshore sand onto the south end of Pawleys Island next winter as part of a $14 million project to repair damage from Hurricane Ian. The agency’s announcement last week fulfilled a promise town officials made when they agreed to let the Corps… Read More
By Wayne J. D’Angelo (New York) , Joseph Green (Los Angeles), Zachary Lee (Washington) and Sabrina Eve Morelli (New York) Kelley Drye & Warren LLP The definition of the phrase “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS), encompassing the jurisdictional reach of the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act) and the related Oil Pollution Act of 1990, has been a source of… Read More
Contractors are roughly halfway through the dredging project that is moving nearly one-million cubic yards of sand and silt from the Wilmington Harbor shipping channel, with the beach-quality sand going onto Bald Head Island’s South Beach. Marinex’s Savannah is a cutter-head suction dredge with a 7,300-kilowatt power plant. When she’s not at work, locals can… Read More
Large storms can devastate coastal communities when no buffers exist to protect them. But salt marshes, which are coastal wetlands flooded and drained by salt water from the tides, can shield buildings and homes. “When Hurricane Sandy hit, if we didn’t have salt marshes there, a lot of homes would actually be more damaged,” said… Read More
On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced his plan to introduce a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to eventually strike down President Biden’s proposed Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule, which relies on a likely unlawful abuse of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s discretion to parole more migrants into the United States… Read More
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The beach renourishment project is facing a delay, as a few municipalities have yet to sign a required agreement with the federal and state government, Lavallette Mayor Walter LaCicero told the borough council Monday. The intergovernmental agreement between the 11 towns, the state of New Jersey, Ocean County and the federal government must be completed… Read More
A dredging contractor for the Walla Walla Engineer District has completed channel-deepening dredging at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers near Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho. The project dredged about 220,000 cubic yards of material, all of which was disposed of at an in-water location near Bishop Bar (north shore), located at Mile… Read More
A beach replenishment project on Ocean County’s northern barrier island will not begin until the fall, officials said this week, as several municipalities are just now approving agreements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fund the work. In January, Ocean County officials said the county would fund the “local share” of the project, which… Read More