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WEYMOUTH – Mayor Robert Hedlund said his administration is taking a “holistic approach” to improve Weymouth’s shoreline with projects to improve coastal resiliency, reduce flooding, upgrade boat ramps and open up more of the coastline to residents. Fort Point Road sea wall upgrade The planned projects include completing a final design for a sea wall upgrade near Fort… Read More
Speaking Wednesday before a congressional panel, Gov. John Bel Edwards praised a bill that could pave the way for coastal restoration and storm surge protection projects in Louisiana and other states. Edwards spoke at a U.S. Senate field hearing in Delaware held to collect comments on the proposed Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience and Enhancement… Read More
A privately funded beach restoration effort has brought in nearly 20,000 tons of sand at Sugar Cove in Spreckelsville over the course of nearly three decades. Sugar Cove Condominiums, a complex of 14 homeowners who live adjacent to the beach, has funneled millions of dollars into sand replenishment for the beach. “The community originally wanted… Read More
SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. – United States Senator, Tom Carper, will visit Delaware coastal communities Tuesday and Wednesday as part of his Costal Protection Week campaign to highlight the need for shoreline restoration and protection in the face of climate change. Coastal Protection Week comes on the tails of Carper’s Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement… Read More
Sen. Tom Carper visited Slaughter Beach to discuss beach replenishment and coastal restoration Tuesday. His visit came just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projected the United States will experience as much sea level rise in the next 30 years as it saw in the past 100 years. DNREC says that’s a major… Read More
Since July 2019, the city of Whitewater has been draining the Whitewater lakes, Tripp and Cravath, in hopes of eradicating invasive species by freezing out the unwanted pests, bringing back navigation channels and improving the health of the lake’s ecosystem. Now they have begun the dredging process after many weeks of preparation through controlled burning,… Read More
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria took an aerial tour via Coast Guard helicopter Monday of Port of Virginia infrastructure and the wind turbine project off the Virginia Beach coast with an eye toward how those and other infrastructure projects in the region could benefit from legislation passed earlier this year. The… Read More
According to the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects to promulgate its new Vessel Incidental Discharge National Standards of Performance any time now (originally expected by the end of 2021). By way of background, in December 2018, the Vessel Incident Discharge Act (VIDA) was signed into law via subsection (p)… Read More
Lavaca Bay, a steel, gray waterway along the Central Texas Coast, is home to one of the most notorious Superfund sites in Texas—a huge, abandoned industrial plant complex (and island full of dredge materials) that leaches toxic mercury into surrounding waters, creating a zone where, for decades, the fish has been too dangerous for humans… Read More
Harrisburg’s Italian Lake may be beautiful on the surface, but what’s at the bottom of the water? According to David Baker, director of parks, recreation and facilities for the city, there’s lots of debris, trash and “muck” that needs to be removed. The city began to clean out the south portion of the lake, in… Read More
The future begins Wednesday, Feb. 23. That’s when the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will auction off leases to develop wind farms on six huge offshore water parcels, covering nearly half a million acres from Cape May all the way to Montauk Point. The sale, located in an ocean formation called the New… Read More
Mayor Robert Hedlund said his administration is taking a “holistic approach” to upgrade Weymouth Neck’s shoreline. “We have work going on in three areas,” he said. Fort Point Road seawall upgrade The planned upgrades include; completing a final design for a seawall upgrade near Fort Point Road, I Hedlund said frequent severe storms have… Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards is heading to Delaware where he will testify Wednesday at a U.S. Senate committee field hearing on coastal restoration and climate change. Edwards is expected to discuss work to restore Louisiana’s coastline while bearing the brunt of multiple major hurricanes in recent years and the ongoing climate crisis. The Senate Environment and Public Works… Read More
The largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean International’s 236,857 gross ton Wonder of the Seas arrived in the United States last night to prepare for her maiden voyage. The giant ship, which is about four percent larger than her sister ship, arrived in Port Everglades, just after nightfall on February 20, where she… Read More
That was the bottom line in Thursday’s monumental decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who officially included Key Biscayne as part of Miami-Dade County’s 50-year Shoreline Protection Plan, saving the Village millions of dollars in the process. Village Manager Steve Williamson, calling it a “Super Bowl” win, said the plan to widen, raise… Read More