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The shipping crisis on the Mississippi River might finally be ending. Since last July, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the river 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ease shipping backups. With improved snowpack in areas such as Montana and precipitation through the midsection of the country late last… Read More
As spring break approaches and tourist season hits full swing in Miami Beach, segments of the beach will be closed to the public during an ongoing effort to fight erosion by hauling in massive amounts of sand. Visitors will see mountains of sand piled up between 46th and 49th streets in the coming weeks, affecting… Read More
Tradepoint Atlantic, a 3,300-acre global multimodal logistics hub and industrial center, today announced that the Port Tampa Bay’s Board of Commissioners approved a lease agreement with Tradepoint Tampa for 35 acres of land to build a new trans-load warehouse distribution facility. Under the terms of a 40-year lease agreement, Tradepoint Tampa will design, construct and… Read More
The 1,200-acre Upper Barataria Marsh Creation project is NOAA’s largest habitat construction effort to date, building on decades of previous work in coastal Louisiana. The effort is restoring habitat damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The contractor working to clear sediment in the Snake and Clearwater rivers near Lewiston and Clarkston is on pace to finish the work by the end of this month. As of Thursday, American Construction Co. of Tacoma and a subcontractor had removed 89 percent of the estimated 400,000 cubic yards of sediment clogging the navigation… Read More
A dredging project for Lake Logan that has been in the works for more than a year appears to be closer to reality, but is still not underway or scheduled. When The Logan Daily News contacted the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in December 2021 to inquire about dredging plans for the lake, an agency… Read More
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Early one Sunday morning my son’s Boy Scout troop toured a small research facility in the middle of the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. As the presentation began, someone handed me a chunk of wood. Researchers sawed this simple round from a tree pulled out of a nearby bog. It was perfectly preserved, even… Read More
Miami-Dade County and its Resilient305 partners, the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, on Feb. 6, received over $39 million in funding from the Resilient Florida Grant Program. The grants, distributed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, will go to support ongoing resilience project implementation in the county. Of the 75 grants awarded statewide,… Read More
Canada has announced a moratorium on deep-sea mining in both territorial and international waters on the last day of a global ocean conservation summit. Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made statements Thursday confirming Canada’s position on seabed mining at the IMPAC5 leadership forum in Vancouver. There… Read More
The Canadian government this month banned mining in its oceans — and that’s just fine by the Vancouver-based company that is on track to become the world’s first deep-sea miner. “That was no surprise to anyone. We are not interested in that,” said Gerard Barron, chief executive of The Metals Co., or TMC. “We are only… Read More
The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant shore town bolstering its dunes without state permission is intensifying. The state Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that it has fined North Wildwood over $12 million for past construction actions along its beachfront, including the destruction of vegetated sand dunes and wetlands,… Read More
Based on a new analysis, Fairfax County staff are recommending against the proposed dredging of Lake Accotink. “The excessive cost combined with significant environmental impacts from deforestation and social impacts from large numbers of trucks, noise, visual impacts and potential impacts to recreation [led to the recommendation not to dredge],” said Charles Smith, Fairfax County… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with the Port of Everett, has completed maintenance dredging of the lower settling basin of the Snohomish River Federal Navigation Channel. American Construction removed 193,000 cubic yards of material with a clamshell dredge. Source
A multibillion-dollar plan to heal South Florida’s damaged ecosystem is breaking new ground in western Palm Beach County, where Lake Okeechobee waters once trickled south to nourish the Everglades and feed freshwater to Florida Bay. The Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir, a massive holding tank for lake overflow, has been on a to-do list for more than 20… Read More