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According to a June report by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, more than half of the 825 miles of coastline they surveyed are critically eroded. Earlier this year, you might remember seeing the unbelievable video of a home collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean in the Outer Banks. The house on a beach in Rodanthe is one… Read More
Dear Editor, The St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce commends Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. and the entire board of the Public Finance Authority for unanimously approving the appropriation of $17 million in bond proceeds for the dredging of the Charlotte Amalie harbor channel and turning basin. This vital infrastructure project will allow Oasis-sized cruise ships… Read More
The dredging issue has been a major frustration for the City of Delta for years, but it’s an issue that dates back farther than most people realize. In a Sept. 26, 1903 opinion piece in the Delta Times, for example, the lack of dredging work and how a government-owned dredge was being used was lamented. “We… Read More
Dare County provided the following updates on the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects as of Monday, July 19. Details on the progress of both projects are below. Avon Beach Nourishment: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has announced that it continued to make significant progress on the Avon beach nourishment project over the… Read More
By Judith Powers Massive project was completed on time and on budget Courtesy USACE Charleston District This summer the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District (Corps) and its local sponsor the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) have nearly completed Post-45 — the deepening of the harbor’s 38.4 miles (61.7 kms) of federal shipping channel… Read More
Images during hurricane Hannah in 2020 show the water crashing against the sand dunes. This is a major concern to coastal research scientist as they continue to monitor sand dunes in the Coastal Bend. “When we have storms is when we have the greatest erosion and typically the most noticeable to the naked eye,” said… Read More
The creation story told by the Chitimacha people, in Louisiana, describes the world in its earliest days as a wide expanse of water. Then the Great Creator instructed crawfish to dive down and bring up a bit of mud. Geologists tell a similar tale, though their sculptor is the Mississippi River: for thousands of years,… Read More
Last April, engineers on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean held their breath as a 25-tonne mining tractor lay stranded on the silty ocean floor, more than 4km below the surface. On the 13th and final trial dive of a world-first experiment, a robot had broken free of its tether and lay in… Read More
Coastal communities in the state that are threatened by climate change are eligible for $225 million in federal grants. Cities, counties and tribes can apply for coastal resilience projects under the Climate Ready Coasts initiative. The funding is through the $2.855 billion set aside for salmon habitat recovery and coastal resilience in the Biden-Harris Infrastructure… Read More
State, federal, and local agencies gathered this week to celebrate two tidal habitat restoration projects in Solano County that support the survival of Delta smelt and other fish species as part of the long-term operation of the State Water Project. Bradmoor Island and Arnold Slough, two neighboring projects in the Suisun Marsh, are designed to… Read More
US Congress representatives for the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have proposed the Clean Shipping Act, the first legislation in the US tailored to target shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions. Congressman Alan Lowenthal and Congresswoman Nanette Barragán have co-sponsored and proposed the bill on 12 July. The Clean Shipping Act of 2022 is modelled… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has announced that significant progress has been made on the Avon beach nourishment project since pumping resumed on July 8, 2022. Over the past week, the dredge Liberty Island placed approximately 180,000 cubic yards of sand along the beach in Avon to nourish another 4,000 feet of the oceanfront. Pumping approached… Read More
Earlier this summer, Catherine Ridley of the nonprofit conservation group One Hundred Miles learned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to dredge a million cubic yards of material from the Brunswick Harbor just as loggerhead sea turtles were nesting at a record pace on the Georgia coast. Ridley knows that hopper dredges and sea… Read More
Weather and mechanical problems led to delays in a beach renourishment project at Litchfield Beach that had already received permission from regulators to work during the sea turtle nesting season. The extension of the permit for work at the Peninsula on the southern end of Litchfield has added to concern that state and federal agencies… Read More
The work on dredging the marina at Mountwood Park is underway. Crews with Dirt Works of Elizabeth recently started dredging the boat dock area at the park, said Wood County Commission President Blair Couch. “Our dredging project has finally begun,” he said. “We had to delay it last year. “I know a lot of people are… Read More