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(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
When Hurricane Ida made landfall on Aug. 29, the storm’s fierce winds left fallen trees scattered across southeast Louisiana like lawn clippings, while its heavy rains and storm surge threatened severe flooding. But in New Orleans a sense of relief was palpable: The city remained largely dry. Sixteen years to the day earlier, when Hurricane… Read More
The very first dredging of White Rock Lake did not get off to a great start. Dallas Municipal Archives When the November Advocate hits your door you will find a few pages about the very first time the City of Dallas sucked — from the floor of White Rock Lake — tons of silt and… Read More
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – A new dredging project begins this week to will help lower the sandbars near the Cherry Grove canals. Myrtle Beach has a small dredging permit to bring in a barge to dredge several of the sandbars. This will help open up the canals, giving boaters less of a problem… Read More
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The flooding caused by Hurricane Ida across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions provides a glimpse at the disasters threatening coastal communities as the climate warms. These disasters often disproportionately affect communities of color and other historically underserved neighborhoods. A $19.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People Program… Read More
One of the most important remaining habitats for fish and wildlife in Michigan waters of the Detroit River is the target of a habitat restoration project that is expected to bring about a considerable improvement in the surrounding area. Work will begin soon at South Hennepin Marsh to reconstruct its protective island shoals, with the… Read More
MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The repair work on M-185 on Mackinac Island is complete and on budget. M-185, roughly 8 miles long, is the only state highway in Michigan that does not regularly allow automobile traffic. According to The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), most of the road is within, and maintained in cooperation… Read More
Climate experts have long warned that rising seas could add more destructive power to hurricane-whipped storm surges. But a new study centered on the Chesapeake Bay region suggests that another potential consequence of climate change could make that flooding even more devastating. Large swaths of the marshes that stand guard along the coasts of Maryland and… Read More