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Drought has again closed a portion of the Mississippi River — and this time shrunk a part of the major US waterway in Memphis to its lowest level ever. Waters in Memphis fell to a reading of negative 10.79 feet late Monday, narrowly lower than the previous low of negative-10.70 set in 1988, according to… Read More
As they mourned the loss of one of their colleagues Tuesday morning, St. Johns County commissioners got an update on storm damage the county sustained during Ian. The storm left almost $40 million in damage to homes and businesses in the county. Now, commissioners are turning their attention to the damaged coastline where beach repairs are… Read More
An N.W.T. MLA is pleading with the territory’s infrastructure minister to dredge the Hay River harbour. Rocky Simpson, who represents Hay River South, said the process of removing silt and mud from the bottom of bodies of water is essential for the safety and navigation of vessels — which resupply communities, ship construction materials, and carry out… Read More
FEMA is providing rental assistance, hotel stays, repair assistance, reimbursement for temporary lodging and other forms of support for Floridians affected by Hurricane Ian who can’t live in their homes. As of today, FEMA has provided $420 million in assistance to help survivors jumpstart their recovery. How FEMA is helping Floridians: FEMA has made individual… Read More
Last December, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR,) along with multiple other NJ partners and institutions, were awarded a grant to fund the implementation of the newly-established New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium. In addition to the JC NERR, partners include Monmouth University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton University, NJ Sea Grant… Read More
The western border of Atchison County, Missouri, follows the twisting path of the Missouri River. Acres of corn and soy fields once lined its shores, but after a nearby levee suffered seven breaches in the Flood of 2019, the cropland was ruined. Instead of rebuilding the levee and replanting the crops, Atchison County decided to… Read More
Mechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments. However, a new study suggests that while they do remove plastics and other items of marine litter, the quantities of litter removed can be comparatively low and they can also trap marine organisms. The study… Read More
Jason Diaz awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of trickling water. Outside his first-floor apartment where he had slept, Hurricane Ian moved violently and slowly over the Florida interior, dropping monumental amounts of rain on the low-slung landscape pockmarked everywhere with lakes and rivers, ponds and canals. The headwaters of the… Read More
Bourne Select Board has voted to authorize Town Administrator Marlene V. McCollem to explore disposal of materials used during dredging of the Pocasset River. Ms. McCollem said the materials left over are no longer needed by the town. The topic was raised during the select board’s meeting on Tuesday, October 11. Ms. McCollem noted there… Read More
As coastal cities wrestle with increasing threats from rising waters, a nonprofit’s costly new headquarters offers an answer that is both defiant and prescient. The Elizabeth River Project’s $8.1 million headquarters on a flood plain destined to be submerged in the coming decades as tides rise and storms intensify has been designed to showcase strategies… Read More
Tower Rock – a massive island in the middle of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis – is typically surrounded by water and only accessible by boat. But as severe drought spreads across the Midwest and pushes river levels to record lows, people can now reach the rock formation on foot. “The river has dropped… Read More
As Gov. Ron DeSantis stopped for just under an hour in Flagler Beach this morning to see the damage to dunes and the pier, the two words that recurred most often by way of relief ahead, even from DeSantis’s lips, were a name: Rep. Paul Renner, the incoming Speaker of the house. Renner represents Flagler… Read More
A section of the Peruvian dock at the Town of Palm Beach Marina has been repaired after it broke off last month during the passage of Hurricane Ian, but questions remain as to what caused it to happen. The 30-foot ”finger pier,” which holds two slips, was reattached to the main dock Oct. 7 by crews from Bellingham… Read More
The NWT government says it is “willing to lead the work” of dredging Hay River’s harbour if the federal government hands over the money required. Large-scale harbour channel dredging in Hay River hasn’t happened since Ottawa’s Canada-wide dredging program was discontinued in the mid-1990s. Residents, fishers and politicians agree that the build-up of sediment risks… Read More
A Canadian Coast Guard ship is stuck on a sandbar in the harbour near Hay River, N.W.T. The ship is just the latest this season to get caught in this situation. It comes amidst the town and territorial government’s calls on the federal government to dredge the waterway. Holly Foerter, a spokesperson for the federal… Read More