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An emergency dredging project to restore navigability in the Murderkill River was completed ahead of schedule, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control announced today – with momentum from the $2.3 million project expected to carry over into fall on additional dredging work by DNREC’s Shoreline and Waterway Management Section that includes another navigability restoration… Read More
An EPA decision to create a dumping ground for dredged materials off of New London in the eastern Long Island Sound – which has locked Connecticut and New York in a years-long legal fight – was justified, a federal court ruled on Friday. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong hailed the decision from the U.S. Second Circuit Court… Read More
Bill Queen is desperate for sand. The mayor of North Redington Beach has seen the shore shrink steadily over the past few years as the Gulf of Mexico creeps closer to lines of blue cabanas. “Our lifeblood is the sand,” he said. Yet it’s washing away. In June, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection reported… Read More
While many had hoped this would be the session to do it, after two weeks of talks at the UN headquarters in New York, member states have failed to conclude a legally binding agreement to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity on the high seas. Now, governments will have to keep bridging their differences until a new meeting,… Read More
One year ago, the remnants of Hurricane Ida deposited a record-breaking amount of rain on New York City and the surrounding region. The storm left a trail of destruction in its wake, including 13 city fatalities and $936 million in federal dollars given for personal property damages across New York state and New Jersey. It also left behind some clues. In… Read More
The City of Flagler Beach is taking steps to ease erosion near one of its most popular locations. Sand dunes have recently appeared as 6 feet tall, unstable cliffs. Many local leaders and residents say they’ve never seen anything like it. “It’s starting to eat into the vegetation, which is the most critical part of… Read More
A popular fishing area along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and the rapidly disappearing Raccoon Island are among the state’s latest coastal restoration efforts being paid for by BP oil spill money. State and federal trustees overseeing the restoration of natural resources damaged by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have approved spending nearly $75 million on… Read More
A football field full of moss-covered bald cypress trees gone every 90 minutes, along with delicate purple irises, tide-tattooed barrier islands, and marsh grasses. That’s the common estimate of how much land Louisiana’s coast is losing — the fastest rate of land loss in North America. From 1932 to 2016 almost 1.2 million square acres… Read More
Today, a coalition of Gulf and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has once again delayed its timing to seek bids to dredge the Matagorda Bay shipping channel through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site to vastly expand exports from an oil export terminal on the Texas Gulf… Read More
There is plenty more room to roam at Silver Beach now that the dredging projects have been completed in the St. Joseph harbor. The excess sand dredged from the outer harbor last week allowed for Silver Beach to be extended south almost to the beach at Lions Park. Residents and visitors enjoyed the extended beach… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District’s present beach restoration project in Miami Beach has its roots in the previous millennium. More than half a century ago, officials in Dade County, Florida, concluded that natural erosion and storm damage to the Miami Beach coastline was a serious threat to the health of its beaches,… Read More
Bogue Banks beaches are in good shape, nowhere near erosion levels that would “trigger” the need for beach nourishment. Nicole Vanderbecke, with the county’s beach engineering firm Moffitt & Nichol, presented the good news about the county’s key economic engine during the Carteret County Beach Commission’s monthly meeting Monday in Emerald Isle. Her opinion was… Read More
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday at Great Meadows Marsh in Stratford following a $4 million restoration project. Audubon Connecticut members, elected officials and project volunteers were among those who attended. Officials say the salt marsh at Great Meadows spanned more than 1,400 acres, but decreased to less than half that, primarily because of development. Officials say… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers is working to replenish Folly Beach by using what is called a “nearshore placement” project. “You would literally walk off the steps and the water would be underneath the steps. There’s no beach at high tide at all, like down by the washout,” says Folly Beach visitor Amy Heaton. Beach… Read More
The Corpus Christi City Council knows it has a big task on it’s hands, that task being to turn North Beach into a tourist mecca. At their Tuesday meeting, members will be voting on a number of proposals to fix the drainage, add lifeguards and even restrooms. Many of the proposals City Council will vote on this… Read More