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The City’s plan is moving forward to replace the Great Highway south of Sloat Boulevard with a walking path and seawall to deal with erosion threatening a wastewater treatment plant and sewage pipeline at Ocean Beach. Although the Ocean Beach Climate Adaptation Plan has fans among a certain advocacy group, it also has a critic…. Read More
GALENA PARK, Texas (KTRK) — A plan to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel is getting pushback as the next phase of the project unfolds. Dirt being dredged from the channel is set to be deposited in nearby disposal facilities, and community members who live in those areas worry the waste will bring harmful chemicals… Read More
A week after approving a plan in principle that would have imposed a new tax on almost all residents countywide to raise $7 million a year for beach protection, the Flagler County Commission today stepped back sharply from that plan, acknowledging that it had not done the necessary “outreach” to the public or to other local governments… Read More
SAUGATUCK, Mich. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) began dredging a section of Saugatuck Harbor for safety improvements between the Kalamazoo River and Lake Michigan. We’re total The King Company, the Holland-based contractor hired for the project, will remove 68,000 cubic yards of sediment from the two-mile-long channel. After dredging operations are finished,… Read More
The long-sought dredging machine was on the doorstep of arriving at Lake Contrary a little more than 55 years ago, so the infamous story goes. Somewhere during the dredging machine’s move to St. Joseph in the late 1960s, in a twist of fate for reasons unclear, the machine was waylaid to Sugar Lake first. Ivana… Read More
The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted to approve an amendment to an agreement with the City of Bonita Springs to expand the scope of Bonita Beach nourishment efforts south to the County line. The expanded scope is necessary due to damage caused by Hurricane Ian in September 2022. The State of Florida has designated… Read More
Crews are working to re-nourish “Pass-A-Grille,” but local leaders want to see more work on our beaches. Pass-A-Grille is undergoing a major re-nourishing project, replacing sand in the area and rebuilding the size of the beach. Robin Miller is president and CEO of Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber and said right now, the current policies in… Read More
WESTERLY – On a fine summer day, you can probably find Caswell Cooke on a stage near Misquamicut Beach wearing a sailor’s outfit and jamming with his band, Caswell & the Peel N’ Eats. These days you can also find Cooke in slacks and a jacket in meeting rooms trying to persuade Westerly residents and city officials… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND, DE — The Sussex County Council is agreeing to contribute $800,000 in funding toward dredging in the north and south channels leading to the Little Assawoman Bay. The Town of Fenwick Island began receiving bids for the proposed project in April. The initial bids were roughly $2.3 million, nearly $1 million more than… Read More
Barnegat Bay provides billions in tourism and fishing impact State must get new permission to operate its expanded dump New Jersey environmental and transportation regulators cleaning up a lucrative coastal recreation zone were barred from dumping their dredging sludge in a containment area that a state court said was operating under a faulty, defunct permit…. Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers recently welcomed the government dredger MURDEN to New England. According to the Corps, MURDEN began dredging May 30 at Green Harbor in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and is currently dredging Great Salt Pond in Block Island, RI. Green Harbor in Marshfield is located at the northwest end of Cape Cod Bay,… Read More
Ultimately, the decade-long restoration project filled over 100 miles of ditches, restored more than 3,000 acres of wetlands and replanted more than 20,000 acres of tallgrass prairie. POLK COUNTY, Minn. – When Tim Cowdery – a now-retired hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey – published a report in 2019 highlighting more than a decade of… Read More
North Wildwood Beach Replenishment Underway! – Drone Footage The North Wildwood beach nourishment dredging project is officially underway! On Wednesday night, crews initiated equipment tests, and since then, the dredge has been actively pumping sand onto the North Wildwood beaches. The Wildwood Video Archive visited the project on its first day, capturing aerial footage and… Read More
Thousands of cubic yards of sand are being blasted onto the beaches in North Wildwood. An emergency beach nourishment dredging project is officially underway, and beachgoers and long-time residents stopped by Friday afternoon to watch the machines in action. “You have to be grateful that something is finally being done because they weren’t going to do anything,… Read More
