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VERO BEACH — Repairs of the storm-damaged Conn Beach boardwalk are nearing completion, slightly behind schedule. The project was to be finished by Monday, but there’s still about 160 feet of boardwalk yet to be built near Jaycee Park, said Public Works Director Matthew Mitts. Officials now expect work to be completed by the end of… Read More
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Although City Council plans to get a “second opinion” on a recommendation from the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, officials there may go ahead and issue a “request for proposals” to remove the Horseshoe Lake dam this week. After being paid a visit Monday night (Aug. 30) by NEORSD officials, including… Read More
The US Department of the Interior has announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management plans to conduct an environmental review of a proposed commercial-scale wind project offshore New York. The project proposes to build up to 122 wind turbines, which would generate 880 to 1,300MW of renewable energy. The lease area is in federal… Read More
STATE INITIATIVE: Equipment to remove sediment near harbor KENT — Dredging is underway at Oak Orchard Harbor, a navigation channel in Orleans County, used by boaters to access Lake Ontario. Dredging of the navigation channel is part of a $15 million Regional Dredging Initiative through the state’s Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. “Communities along Lake… Read More
This is the second in a multipart special reporting series on coastal water quality. Read more. Human and swine feces polluted eastern North Carolina waters sampled after Hurricane Florence’s historic flooding of the Coastal Plain. In all, 48 sites in the Neuse, Cape Fear, Lumber and Waccamaw River watersheds were sampled as part of a… Read More
U.S. taxpayers may balk at the price tag for protecting the coastal homes of wealthy landowners. In Ocean City, New Jersey, a barrier-island resort featuring a famous boardwalk, expensive homes and an infinite supply of salt-water taffy, what the secretary-general of the United Nations called “code red for humanity” manifests today mostly as puddles. The… Read More
The rate at which we are extracting gravel for construction is 23 times greater than it was in 1900, and a lot of it is being done illegally. Experts warn about irreversible environmental and social impacts In 2020, the global human-made mass outweighed the Earth’s living biomass for the first time. And most of it… Read More
The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission is set to review next month the draft amendment to the Coastal Habitat Protection Plan, which is revised every five years to reflect changes in the status of habitat protection in the state. Committee meetings begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 for the Air Quality Committee, Groundwater and Waste Management Committee and Water Quality… Read More
While the good news coming out of New Orleans this morning was that electricity has been restored to limited areas of the city, overflight photos and media reports from the areas hit by Hurricane Ida make it plain that recovery will take quite some time yet. Its impacts will also be felt beyond Louisiana and… Read More
Maryland’s Agreement with Exelon Will Bring Even Greater Results in Eel Passage and Increased Numbers of Water-filtering Mussels The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announce that more than half a million eels have passed from below the Conowingo Dam to be placed in the river above this… Read More
A proposal to protect coastal Miami-Dade from hurricanes by running a tall concrete wall though Biscayne Bay and waterfront neighborhoods is — unsurprisingly — dead. The county on Monday formally rejected the plan, part of an instantly controversial $4.6 billion proposal from the Army Corps of Engineers that also included elevating thousands of private homes,… Read More
The Lower Colorado River Authority is taking public comments on a proposed dredging ordinance for the Highland Lakes through Friday, Sept. 24. People can submit comments online or during a Wednesday, Sept. 15, public meeting, which is 6-8 p.m. in Building A at the LCRA’s Dalchau Service Center, 3505 Montopolis Drive in Austin. Those who… Read More
Agriculture is a key contributor to the algae mats that plague Lake Erie. With so many fertilizers entering the lake, could sediment from the lake floor be used to grow crops instead? In 2014, a Lake Erie algal bloom sent a cloud of toxins into Toledo, Ohio’s water supply, forcing the city to shut down… Read More
Salvage Team removed a small dredge that had sunk inside a marina in coastal South Carolina last week. Divers from Salmons Dredging attached rigging to the dredge and our Stevens Clyde 32 lifted the dredge and placed it onto a barge for transport to a shipyard for repairs. #salvage #salmonsdredging #ablebodymarinesurveyors #stevensclyde32 #getyourprojectunderway
Financial regulators worldwide are grappling with the impact of climate change and the increasing risk it presents for financial systems, while climate scientists call for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to prevent a climate disaster. At the same time, U.S. insurers remain highly exposed to fossil fuel-dependent industries like oil, gas, coal and utilities,… Read More