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FRANKLIN – After a handful of tough years, when the Atchafalaya River often ran high and federal dredge funding came in trickles, the Port of Morgan City has found something to build on. Along with funding through the Army Corps of Engineers and the work of various dredging companies, the port has managed to turn… Read More
Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis via FRED, Marine Exchange of Southern California. (Total vessels of all types within 25 miles of port, plus those waiting outside specially designated Safety and Air Quality Areas.) Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Data: Harpex, IHS Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index. Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios
Feb 23 (Reuters) – The largest ever U.S. sale of offshore wind development rights – for areas off the coasts of New York and New Jersey – attracted a record $1.5 billion in bids on Wednesday, supporting President Joe Biden’s plan to create a new domestic industry. The auction, which will continue on Thursday, is… Read More
The Lake Houston dam spillway improvement project will be scaled back in scope after officials determined the estimated cost of the project exceeded its approximately $48 million budget, city of Houston officials said Jan. 20. The city has been working to add gates to the Lake Houston dam since Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017…. Read More
Hatteras Inlet is clogged. It was reported the 47-footer at the U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet cannot transit the inlet. The last day the 47-footer went out was around Jan. 24. The situation has been going on for almost four weeks. U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet Chief John Matuska said to Dare County… Read More
WEYMOUTH – Mayor Robert Hedlund said his administration is taking a “holistic approach” to improve Weymouth’s shoreline with projects to improve coastal resiliency, reduce flooding, upgrade boat ramps and open up more of the coastline to residents. Fort Point Road sea wall upgrade The planned projects include completing a final design for a sea wall upgrade near Fort… Read More
Speaking Wednesday before a congressional panel, Gov. John Bel Edwards praised a bill that could pave the way for coastal restoration and storm surge protection projects in Louisiana and other states. Edwards spoke at a U.S. Senate field hearing in Delaware held to collect comments on the proposed Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience and Enhancement… Read More
A privately funded beach restoration effort has brought in nearly 20,000 tons of sand at Sugar Cove in Spreckelsville over the course of nearly three decades. Sugar Cove Condominiums, a complex of 14 homeowners who live adjacent to the beach, has funneled millions of dollars into sand replenishment for the beach. “The community originally wanted… Read More
SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. – United States Senator, Tom Carper, will visit Delaware coastal communities Tuesday and Wednesday as part of his Costal Protection Week campaign to highlight the need for shoreline restoration and protection in the face of climate change. Coastal Protection Week comes on the tails of Carper’s Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement… Read More
Sen. Tom Carper visited Slaughter Beach to discuss beach replenishment and coastal restoration Tuesday. His visit came just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projected the United States will experience as much sea level rise in the next 30 years as it saw in the past 100 years. DNREC says that’s a major… Read More
Since July 2019, the city of Whitewater has been draining the Whitewater lakes, Tripp and Cravath, in hopes of eradicating invasive species by freezing out the unwanted pests, bringing back navigation channels and improving the health of the lake’s ecosystem. Now they have begun the dredging process after many weeks of preparation through controlled burning,… Read More
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria took an aerial tour via Coast Guard helicopter Monday of Port of Virginia infrastructure and the wind turbine project off the Virginia Beach coast with an eye toward how those and other infrastructure projects in the region could benefit from legislation passed earlier this year. The… Read More
According to the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects to promulgate its new Vessel Incidental Discharge National Standards of Performance any time now (originally expected by the end of 2021). By way of background, in December 2018, the Vessel Incident Discharge Act (VIDA) was signed into law via subsection (p)… Read More
Lavaca Bay, a steel, gray waterway along the Central Texas Coast, is home to one of the most notorious Superfund sites in Texas—a huge, abandoned industrial plant complex (and island full of dredge materials) that leaches toxic mercury into surrounding waters, creating a zone where, for decades, the fish has been too dangerous for humans… Read More
Harrisburg’s Italian Lake may be beautiful on the surface, but what’s at the bottom of the water? According to David Baker, director of parks, recreation and facilities for the city, there’s lots of debris, trash and “muck” that needs to be removed. The city began to clean out the south portion of the lake, in… Read More