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The National Coastal Resilience Fund will award approximately $140 million in grant funding to enhance coastal communities’ natural defenses against severe weather and flooding WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2022) – The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced the release of the 2022 Request for Proposals for the National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF), which… Read More
South Carolina’s beach communities must wrestle often with the multimillion-dollar challenge of replenishing the sand along the ocean’s edge, which naturally washes away in spots and can be subject to dramatic erosion following significant storms. While we recognize the Sisyphean nature of such work, we also realize the short-term economic benefits of maintaining an appealing… Read More
SALEM — A public hearing will be held at 5 p.m. April 6 regarding a NatureWorks grant the Salem parks department is seeking for a project to dredge the duck pond at Waterworth Memorial Park. The city Parks Commission approved applying for the grant Wednesday. The estimated project cost is $22,000. If approved, the grant… Read More
OCEAN CITY, NJ — The Trustees of the Ocean Wind Pro-NJ Grantor Trust Fund today released a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEIO) for coastal infrastructure and resiliency projects in Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties. The projects the Trust is looking for will mitigate impacts of severe weather and help increase resiliency so counties… Read More
Within two months, the U.S. Department of the Interior will auction off the rights to build wind turbines in 172 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern North Carolina coast. The site will be split into two different lease areas, and the department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an auction on… Read More
Dare County officials, as well as representatives from contractors Coastal Science & Engineering (CSE) and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDDC), provided an overview of the upcoming beach nourishment projects in Avon and Buxton at a Thursday evening meeting at the Fessenden Center. The two projects, which have been in the works for years,… Read More
The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore the Carolinas on May 11. The lease areas cover 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay area that, if developed, could result in… Read More
Washington, Mar 27 (IANS): The dredging operation to free the container ship Ever Forward grounded in the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of the US was suspended due to weather conditions. William Doyle, executive director of the Port of Baltimore in the state of Maryland, tweeted that the dredging operation is expected to resume… Read More
Last week the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize announced that Boston has been honored as a Special Mention for the 2020 World City Prize. One of the reasons the city received this honor is Boston’s holistic work on climate resiliency here in Charlestown. The prize committee called Boston a visionary city where close partnership… Read More
A proposal to expand the size of wind energy projects off the Louisiana coast advanced Wednesday in the Legislature. Proponents say it will make the state more attractive to developers and investors in the renewable energies market. House Bill 165, sponsored by Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, was approved without objection in the House Committee on… Read More
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was among the speakers at a March 25 ceremony held by the Georgia Ports Authority, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Georgia Department of Transportation to mark completion of the Savannah Harbor deepening project. “This is a great day for the state of Georgia and for the nation,” said Gov. Kemp…. Read More
An engineering study looking at ways to protect the piece of land connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia suggests the top three options will cost between $189 million and $301 million. The Chignecto Isthmus is a 21-kilometre wide stretch of land linking the two provinces and is the only land bridge connecting them. An estimated… Read More
A decade after the last effort, most restored areas are now just rocks A regional planning group is laying the groundwork for another large-scale sand project like the one that widened San Diego County beaches a decade ago. The previous effort, completed in 2012 at a cost of $28.5 million, required nearly a decade of… Read More