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Business Network provided an introductory offshore wind industry course to staff from 13 federal permitting agencies, including BOEM, EPA, U.S. Coast Guard, and more in partnership with FPISC BALTIMORE – More than 300 staff members from 13 federal permitting agencies joined the Business Network for Offshore Wind late last week for an offshore wind industry… Read More
The truth is that saltwater canal maintenance is not a line item on the Palm Coast budget because it is not necessary and there are far greater priorities. Dear Editor: Recently we have been hearing about this supposed “need” to spend what could amount to tens of millions of tax dollars to dredge our saltwater… Read More
On January 3, 2022, Caltrans and SANDAG NCC crews began work in partnership with the San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority (JPA) on Phase II of the San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Project in the city of San Diego. This project will restore 64 acres of land back to tidal salt marsh, another 15… Read More
Efforts to keep San Diego County beaches replenished with sand long has been an expensive and sometimes controversial endeavor It sounds like a coastal version of a range war. Yet instead of damming water upstream, Oceanside decided to move ahead with a pilot project to build a handful of beach groins similar to small jetties… Read More
The California Coastal Commission appealed the City of Pismo Beach’s approval for private seawalls for two beachfront houses experiencing erosion. This appeal comes a month after the City of Pismo Beach Planning Commission initially approved the plan for a 120-foot-long and 40-foot-high seawall for resident James Gentilcore’s beachfront estate. “We look at it from the… Read More
The Suffolk Department of Public Works announced Tuesday that the dredging of Bennett’s Creek was completed this January. The operation took 11 days to complete, with 14,881 cubic yards of dredged material removed and deposited at Craney Island. A 3,350-foot channel was dredged to a depth of 8 feet. The work was completed by the… Read More
Denmark is far ahead of Virginia on offshore wind. While the commonwealth is embarking on its first offshore wind development off the Virginia Beach coast, Denmark has spent decades building and refining its suite of more than 6,000 turbines. Virginia officials hope to learn from the European country what works, and what doesn’t. The two… Read More
By now everyone knows that the international supply chain that serves American commerce is overloaded because of a historic and sustained increase in the volume of goods that American businesses and consumers are buying from overseas. The biggest port delays are in Southern California, where at the end of last week more than 100 container… Read More
The Philadelphia rowing community says racing lanes and other areas need clearing or the city could lose its famed regattas. A halted dredging project to help rowers keep and maintain regattas on the Schuylkill will receive $5 million to restart — joyous news to those along Philadelphia’s famed Boathouse Row who have waited years for… Read More
Preliminary work is underway to build the Northern Territory’s largest fuel storage facility in Darwin, Australia, with construction to begin by the end of this month. Originally a media release from Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Michael Gunner, found here. The facility will be located at East Arm, at the Land Development Corporation’s Bulk… Read More
City commissioners voted unanimously for the city manager to lay the groundwork for talks with Siesta Key leaders SARASOTA, Fla. — People who live in Siesta Key now have an alternative to consider after a failed bid to break away from Sarasota County. The beach community, under the banner of several groups and coalitions, has… Read More
Congressional transportation policymakers recently announced plans to kick off consideration of legislation aimed at improving the country’s transportation waterways. An update of the Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, would pave the way for the approval of billions of dollars for programs centered on flood protection, port dredging and environmental protection. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.),… Read More
By Tom Ewing For dredging company executives, the recently passed $550 billion federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) sits like the proverbial Horn-o’-Plenty, ready to disgorge billions of federal dollars for maritime, port, harbor, coastal, inland waterways and flood projects, many of which will require dredging. This is a really big deal because this… Read More
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A small group of affluent landowners, who bought houses on an erosion-scarred stretch of beach, have won a battle that could have reverberations for other oceanfront residents fighting rising sea levels that threaten their investments. The politically appointed S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control board agreed this past week to let property owners at… Read More