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Partnership will Restore Islands off Dorchester County Using Dredged Material BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) are marking a milestone of environmental stewardship this month on the landmark restoration of Poplar Island near Talbot County. Simultaneously, the agencies are advancing… Read More
The Balgal Beach shoreline will receive a renewed lease on life with beach reprofiling of the coastal area beginning this week. The beach reprofiling works are part of Townsville City Council’s ongoing Shoreline Erosion Management Plan. Community Health, Safety and Environmental Sustainability Committee chairperson Maurie Soars said the beach reprofiling along the foreshore will reinstate… Read More
SEATTLE — When coastal homeowners install seawalls to protect their houses from rising waters, they’re solving one problem by creating another. Protective structures such as seawalls and bulkheads can help save properties from erosion. But such structures, known collectively as shoreline armoring, can block the natural flow of sand and sediment down the coast and multiply… Read More
CONWAY, S.C. (WPDE) — The past five years have showcased a new chapter in the lives of neighbors who call the South Carolina coast home. Weather events from hurricanes, extreme seasonal rainfall, to the ebbs and flows of the ocean have impacted lives more frequently than what was once the norm. That’s evident in data… Read More
On Anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, State Begins Work to Protect Residents Along Fresh Creek in Brooklyn Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) will begin construction on a $14 million project to protect the most at-risk sections of Fresh Creek’s shoreline in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The project will help the community adapt to the effects of… Read More
The Interior Department announced Thursday a proposed lease sale for offshore wind development off North Carolina and South Carolina. The proposed Carolina Long Bay lease area consists of about 128,000 acres and includes most of the Wilmington East Wind Energy Area, which officials said has the potential to generate enough electricity to power more than… Read More
Minnesota is one big step closer to completing a massive clean-up effort of the St. Louis River estuary near Duluth. In October the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources finished a three-year, $18 million project restoring 230 acres of coastal wetland habitat at Kingsbury Bay and Grassy Point, where the St. Louis River widens before it… Read More
(Oct. 28, 2021) The long-awaited islandwide coastal-resilience plan was released Wednesday afternoon. The plan, from Arcadis, now lays out a dollar figure for the 40-plus projects aimed at adapting to erosion and flooding from sea-level rise, from nature-based to structural approaches. The total? Nearly $1 billion. One of the biggest projects is dune nourishment in… Read More
Hawaii County will not be reinvesting in certain water infrastructure destroyed by the 2018 Kilauea eruption, public officials said Thursday. During a public informational meeting on Zoom about a series of proposed water infrastructure improvement projects in Puna, Keith Okamoto, chief engineer for the Department of Water Supply, said the county will not be pursuing… Read More
Officials are focusing on removing styrofoam first, before it breaks down and becomes more difficult to collect Thirty-five garbage bags of debris and three helicopter bags of styrofoam were collected Friday from the beach at Cape Palmerston on northern Vancouver Island after 109 containers fell off a ship last week. Forty refrigerators were also gathered… Read More
MARTINEZ, Calif. – The East Bay is getting a new environmental playground as a project, decades in the making, by completing the last major task to turn it from a pile of bay and creek dredgings into a real tidal marsh. As giant backhoes tore into an earthen levee in Martinez, it was a very… Read More
With sediment building up, the future of the Tilden Park lake is now being decided. Last week, Tilden Park’s Jewel Lake was a dry meadow. After the weekend rainstorm, its watery glory was temporarily restored. In the long run, it’s shrinking. Constructed in 1921, Jewel Lake suffers from a significant buildup in sediment from Wildcat… Read More
OCEANSIDE — Oceanside’s Public Works Department has issued a request for proposals to build sand retention devices and a sand-bypass system to protect the city’s eroding beaches.In years past, the city has dredged the harbor to transfer sand to the beaches. But in recent years, the dredging process hasn’t produced enough sand. Beaches south of the… Read More
Culminates 20 years of work in extensive project Before breaching the last levee preventing sea water from rushing into Pacheco Marsh for the first time in generations, workers scrambled last week to make sure water wouldn’t flow the wrong way. Last weekend’s record-setting storms brought more than 7 inches of rain to the marsh southeast… Read More
Kingsmill Bond of Carbon Tracker says the transition to renewables is inevitable based on sheer economics. It seems like good news is difficult to come by in the U.S. these days, what with democracy on the verge of crumbling and the last big chance to address climate change held in the fickle and ill-informed hands… Read More