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While climate change did not create damaging weather and wildfires, it has demonstrably made them more extreme and punishing. There is a credible foreboding among many Floridians as we continue through the 2021 hurricane season. Since 1851, 120 hurricanes — more than 41% of the hurricanes that have hit the U.S. — made some sort… Read More
PORT ONTARIO — As part of its $15 million Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative Regional Dredging Project, the state removed approximately 3,600 cubic yards of sediment from the Salmon River navigation channel between Aug. 9 and 16. The dredging was undertaken using a long reach excavator on a barge, supported by dump scows and a… Read More
In the wake of the deadly fire on the dive boat Conception, safety compliance checks are being conducted underway on smaller, U.S. inspected passenger vessels operating off the California coast. The checks are part of an Eleventh Coast Guard District initiative to improve safety by ensuring continued regulatory compliance while vessels are conducting operations with… Read More
Does the world need another dire warning about its too-slow progress in tackling the climate emergency and a wake-up call to act before time runs out? In Agenda’s view the answer is yes, and global energy consultancy DNV this week obliged with its latest Energy Transition Outlook, which offers a sobering analysis of how nations… Read More
Today, IUMI – the International Union of Marine Insurance – presented its analysis of the latest marine insurance market trends during its annual conference which is being held online from Seoul, South Korea, according to IUMI’s release. In general, IUMI reported positive market development from most insurance lines except P&I, and from most geographic regions,… Read More
This month, SANDAG construction crews reached another major milestone in repairing the Del Mar bluffs, part of a multi-phased project to ensure the integrity and safety of the nearby Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) rail corridor, according to a SANDAG news release. Crews successfully graded the bluffs; constructed a keyway, or foundation, that strengthened… Read More
PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT CLIENT USACE – Philadelphia District DREDGE QUANTITY 1.8 million cubic yards VESSEL TYPE Cutter Suction Dredge DREDGES WORKED Illinois ABOUT THIS PROJECT This beach fill project involved the construction of a berm and dune in order to reduce storm damages in the New Jersey communities of Atlantic City and Ventnor. The hydraulic… Read More
Being on board Dane County’s “Dragon Dredge” is like riding on a slow moving, floating vacuum cleaner. It doesn’t go fast or far and it sucks up dirt. Sometimes a rock gets stuck in it. Dane County purchased the $650,000 Ellicott Dredge in March as part of a five phase, multiyear and multimillion dollar effort… Read More
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