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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
The Beach Boys sing about the west coast of California, and even Floridians brag about their west coast, but we don’t often think about that third populous state, New York, as having a west coast. Yes, New York has a west coast. In fact, the surrounding coast of Lake Erie is home to over 12… Read More
Albert Lea’s bonding requests were not included in Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s $2.7 billion capital investment proposal unveiled Tuesday in a news conference outside the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. Walz used the construction site as a backdrop to highlight how 38% of his proposal, or more than $1 billion, is for asset… Read More
Later this year, Okaloosa County officials expect to find out the results of a beach enrichment project that recently began at public, county-owned beaches in Destin and on Okaloosa Island. The project uses temporary “groyne systems” that capture sand suspended in the water as it moves down the shore, county Coastal Resource Manager Alex Fogg… Read More