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Needless to say, precision and accuracy are crucial factors in the marine construction and surveying fields. That’s where drones come in. With the ability to access difficult and sometimes dangerous areas, drones are able to provide detailed images and data for just about any type of marine construction project. Drones offer a large variety 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
As the effects of heat-trapping pollution continue to raise sea levels, wetlands dotting American coastlines could drown — or they could flourish. Their fate will depend upon rates of sea-level rise, how quickly the plants can grow, and whether there’s space inland into which they can migrate. Climate Central modeled how American coastal wetlands will respond to sea… Read More
The sandy beaches, expanses of marsh and wild horses on Cumberland Island draw visitors to the barrier island each summer, but as with every other beach on Georgia’s coast, that beloved terrain is shifting. Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Savannah) wrote a letter to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging… Read More
Local governments play a game of give-and-take when it comes to maintaining Treasure Coast beaches and their ever-changing terrain. As a result of hurricanes, erosion and development on barrier islands, intervention in Mother Nature’s natural cycle on beaches is needed to sustain the recreational space used by locals and tourists and to protect waterfront structures. Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties… Read More
For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet’s surface — concluding two weeks of talks in New York. The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force in 1994, before marine biodiversity was a well-established… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity making $12,423,000 available in Fiscal Year 2023 funds through what is now called the United States Marine Highway Program (USMHP) and was previously named America’s Marine Highway Program. The FY 2023 funding level is worth less than one-third of the nearly $39 million… Read More
Fairfax County’s beloved Lake Accotink might not be a lake in the future. According to a report released in February, the initial Lake Accotink dredge cost estimate of $30 million in 2018 ballooned to $95 million in a more recent analysis. And the cost of maintenance dredging for the first 20 years comes to another $300… Read More
Mayor George Harvie recently sent a follow-up letter to Steveston—Richmond East Liberal MP Parm Bains expressing optimism on potential movement to get dredging done on the secondary river channels that have begun to silt up. Harvie noted he is pleased that a working group has been re-established to help focus efforts to move the issue forward… Read More
Tuckerton Borough Councilman Brian Martin gave an update on the Lanyard Lagoon project during the Feb. 22 council meeting. “Everything seems to be in order to receive American Relief Program Funding to fill the gap in construction cost,” he said. However, Martin explained, approval to fund the project will depend on a vote taken at… Read More
U.S. officials are growing concerned that giant Chinese-made cranes operating at American ports across the country, including at several used by the military, could give Beijing a possible spying tool hiding in plain sight. Some national-security and Pentagon officials have compared ship-to-shore cranes made by the China-based manufacturer, ZPMC, to a Trojan horse. While comparably well-made… Read More
The Florida Senate is moving forward with proposals to better protect mangrove forests and clean up waters where millions of used tires were sunk in the past as part of an artificial reef project. The Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday backed measures to expand rules about mangroves (SB 100) and to address… Read More
The Saugatuck harbor and adjoining Kalamazoo River will be cleared for boaters to safely use this summer thanks to roughly $900,000 in federal funds to dredge the waters. Federal funding for the dredging was outlined last week, on Feb. 28, in the Army Corps of Engineers operations and maintenance work plan. The dredging will take… Read More
Mississippi River drought conditions kept the St. Louis Engineer District’s veteran dustpan dredge Potter, originally built in 1932, busy throughout its 2022-23 season, which ended on February 1, 2023. To maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water, dredging operations moved nine million cubic yards… Read More
Today, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Board of Directors approved the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) request to dedicate $660 million toward construction of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. This funding represents the final increment needed to fully fund the project’s construct phase, which includes mitigation measures. “Today, we’ve overcome the final… Read More