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After two and half years of planning, designing, permitting, and selecting contractors, construction of the Avon Village beach nourishment commenced on schedule this summer. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) used America’s largest hopper dredge, the Ellis Island, to deliver the first load on Cape Hatteras National Seashore in front of the Village of… Read More
Callan Marine’s latest fleet asset, the 28” cutter suction dredge General Bradley, recently initiated a maintenance dredging project located at the Bolivar Ferry Terminal. This is the inaugural project for the General Bradley, consisting of the removal of 600,000 cubic yards of material and returning the landings to the required depth of 22’. The dredged… Read More
Blind Pass Beach Park on Sanibel is closed, after sudden erosion over the past month made it unsafe, Sanibel officials decided. If or when the shoreline park, which is popular with anglers and beachgoers, will reopen is unclear, said the city’s director of natural resources, Holly Milbrandt. Barrier islands are ever-changing, she says, and Blind Pass between… Read More
ASBPA is proud to release our much-anticipated annual list of the nation’s best restored beaches. The award winning projects this year are Duxbury Beach Dune Restoration Project, MA; Ocean Isle Beach Shoreline Protection Project, NC; Sodus Point Beach Project, NY; and Waikiki Beach Maintenance Project, HI. The goal of ASBPA’s annual best restored beaches award is… Read More
President Joe Biden yesterday signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) into law. As we reported when the measure was passed, the legislation expands the authority of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in a number of ways. President Biden, who in no fan of the major ocean carriers, turned his attention to them again… Read More
Dredging efforts have begun at Bigfoot Slough, just off the North Carolina Ferry Division’s Ocracoke-Silver Lake terminal, to help recover shoaling that’s been there. Sholing was the main reason for the decrease In designated ferries on the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and Cedar Island-Ocracoke routes. The state Department of Transportation says the dredging operation, led by Dredge Merritt of… Read More
Construction crews have completed emergency repairs to stabilize the Del Mar Bluffs, but additional work is slated to begin next year, it was announced Friday. The San Diego Association of Governments, North County Transit District and the city of Del Mar have worked to stabilize the bluffs following a collapse in February 2021. Construction began in March 2021. The emergency repairs… Read More
Migrating birds are making their annual trip north to forests, prairies, streams, rivers and beaches across the United States and Canada. Hundreds of millions of birds will stop along the way and southeast Michigan is one of their favorite places to rest and refuel. These stopover sites are critical to the survival of migratory birds, whose… Read More
America’s marine economy contributed about $361 billion of the nation’s gross domestic product in 2020. That is according to the most current results of the annual Marine Economy Satellite Account released today by two Department of Commerce agencies, NOAA and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). These numbers are from the first year of the… Read More
A Houston company received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money from Valero to help protect coastal wetlands from erosion. The non-profit organization BCarbon received a $280,000 grant from Valero that will fully fund a detailed design and carbon credit model for a 1,000-mile living shoreline along the Texas coast, according to a BCarbon news release…. Read More
Sustainable Marine has officially powered up its tidal energy operation in Canada and is delivering clean electricity to Nova Scotia’s power system. The company declared that its system in Grand Passage is ready to commence commercial operation, making it the first to deliver in-stream tidal power to the grid in Canada. It follows an event… Read More
Restrictions for winter flounder protection are in place each year from January 1 until May 31, so the residents of Nejecho Beach Lagoon had to wait until June 1 for dredging to begin there. The lagoon, located off the Metedeconk River, had become unnavigable due to shoaling at its entrance, and some of the boat… Read More
An initial dredging of Georgetown’s Inner Harbor is necessary to maintain the harbor’s present usage, Senior Project Manager Tom Hutto of GEL Engineering said June 14. That was one of the findings presented by Hutto at a community meeting at Howard Auditorium. The meeting was the culmination of years of work that began with the… Read More
When it comes to making sure Longboat Key’s beaches are stocked with sand, the town’s work is never done. To that point, coastal engineers updated the Longboat Key Town Commission on June 6 on the results of the dredging project from about a year ago, as well as what’s ahead for the Key’s beaches. Public… Read More
When Gov. Ron DeSantis recently vetoed approximately $3.13 billion from this year’s state budget, which was signed into law on June 2, the city of Sanibel saw one of its projects on the cut list. In a memo presented to the Sanibel City Council at its June 7 meeting, Assistant City Manager Paige LeBoutillier reported… Read More