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PORT RICHEY — The city is considering whether to shift money from a long-planned dredging project to the ongoing shoreline restoration and redevelopment in the Cotee River Landing area. Sitting as the Community Redevelopment Agency on June 28, the City Council directed staff to review with the county if it is feasible to amend its… Read More
There was a steady stream of good news at the July 11 Dare County Waterways Commission meeting, with updates on the proposed federal realignment of the Hatteras Ferry Channel/Rollinson Channel, as well the Dare County-managed Miss Katie dredge. Chairman Steve “Creature” Coulter started the meeting by noting that the channels through Hatteras Inlet have remained… Read More
Story by Melanie Peterson The St. Paul District, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, celebrated Earth Day with a ribbon cutting for two of its habitat restoration projects: Harpers Slough and Conway Lake. Both projects are part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration, or UMRR program. The $5.3 million Conway Lake project,… Read More
Patsch has devoted her life to issues related to beaches and coastal erosion as an associate professor of environmental science and resource management at California State University, Channel Islands. “The idea of managing sand as a resource is really global, and there should be a bright spotlight on it because it is a limited resource,”… Read More
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Nature Conservancy’s Joseph Schmidt envisions a future for the Lake Worth Lagoon. In it, American oystercatchers forage the shoreline, mangroves and oysters filter pollution, and kayaks glide from restored island to restored island. In turn, those islands help protect human development. This vision is one step closer to reality with… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court may have undercut the federal government’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, but a new bill from Reps. Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Barragán (D-CA) would restore its authority – for one industry. The proposed Clean Shipping Act of 2022 is the first purpose-built legislation to target shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions in the United… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company’s second hopper dredge, the Liberty Island, arrived in Avon and resumed pumping operations on the evening of Friday, July 8, 2022. As of Sunday, July 10, 2022, the volume from the Liberty Island combined with the amount placed by the first hopper dredge, the Ellis Island, from June 19–29, 2022, totals over 50 percent… Read More
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Land Trust are working to restore fish and wildlife habitat at Perch Lake, which was once a bay of the St. Louis River. West Duluth residents in the New Duluth neighborhood will begin seeing more construction equipment moving into the area as the project begins later… Read More
A corporate official said Friday that Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting is “trying to be as transparent as possible” as it pursues a plan to redevelop the former Dow Chemical property in Gales Ferry. “We don’t have anything to hide,” said Alan Perrault, vice president of Jay Cashman Inc., the dredging firm’s corporate parent. “If… Read More
Dare County provided the following updates on the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects as of Friday, July 8. Details on the progress of both projects are below. Avon Beach Nourishment: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has announced that the dredge Liberty Island arrived in Dare County on the morning of Friday, July 8, 2022…. Read More
There once was a park at Verburg Park. Technically, the park is not gone — but it’s also not quite there. The land is buried under gravel and heavy machinery. Trail closure signs and fencing keep passersby away from where excavators are busy dredging polluted sediment. Long-awaited remediation is finally ramping-up in Kalamazoo this summer with the onset… Read More
Multiple areas throughout Northeast Ohio are receiving $219.5 million in low-interest and principal forgiveness funding from Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in efforts to improve wastewater and drinking water infrastructure, in addition to other water quality and system improvements. The loans, financed through the state’s revolving fund, were approved earlier this year and will save communities more… Read More
NAPA has teamed up with international law firm Stephenson Harwood and a group of leading maritime stakeholders to come up with a legal/technical fix for the ubiquitous “sail fast then wait” (SFTW) phenomenon, which wastes fuel on unnecessary but contractually-incentivized fast transits. As an example of the impact of this arrangement, the bulker fleet spends… Read More
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has issued a a combined Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) making available nearly $300 million through three competitive grant programs that aim to boost access to rural ferry service, bolster existing and new urban service, and lower emissions by speeding adoption of zero emission ferry technologies. “Ferry service can be… Read More
J.F. Brennan Co. Inc’s Andrew Timmis commented, I was able to visit 4 different projects we have going or will be starting in the St Louis River in MN. The scopes include mechanical and hydraulic dredging, amphibious mechanical and hydraulic dredging, capping using our patented Broadcast Capping System, including amended caps using GAC, mechanical placement… Read More