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The price tag for the project on West Grand Terre Island is $102 million. Almost all of the funding comes from settlements from the BP oil spill. GRAND ISLE, La. — On Wednesday, we got a unique look at an effort that can help protect Louisiana from hurricanes and tropical storms. The coastal protection and… Read More
RESERVE, La. (AP) — Work has formally begun in Louisiana on a $760 million, three-parish levee project that was first proposed a half-century ago. State officials said 17.5 miles of levee and a mile of T-wall will protect 60,000 residents of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James Parishes. Gov. John Bel Edwards… Read More
Today, Gov. Edwards joined the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) along with federal, state, and local officials for a groundbreaking ceremony on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection system. The project will provide 100-year hurricane and storm surge protection to 60,000 Louisianans in St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes…. Read More
WASHINGTON – Through their advocacy, Congressman Garret Graves, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and Congressman Troy Carter successfully amended the House Energy and Water spending bill to redirect dredged sediment to coastal restoral projects instead of the Gulf of Mexico. “Coastal Louisiana is America’s coast. It is one of the most productive natural resource assets in… Read More
NEW LONDON — The acres of concrete and asphalt covering downtown had begun to weigh on the leaders of this old port city by the end of the last decade. Every time it rained hard, water would run off those hard surfaces and overwhelm the city’s outdated stormwater system before flowing down toward the busy… Read More
Visitors to East Shore Park in New Haven aren’t easily able to stroll along the beach there. It’s not closed; it’s being physically cut off from the rest of the park by erosion. Getting to the beach requires getting down a steep slope, and there’s a good chance of slipping on the loose sand and… Read More
PACIFIC GROVE — The city of Pacific Grove and Comstock, developer of the proposed ATC – Pacific Grove Hotel and Commercial Project, await a decision by the California Coastal Commission at its upcoming meeting in August on approval of an amendment that would affect the project proposed for the American Tin Cannery site. Under the… Read More
Brad Pickel of AIWA has this update: The amount of funding included in the House bill with comparison to the President’s budget is reflected below and also in the chart. NJIWW: Philadelphia District: FY22 President’s Budget – $ 985,000, House Bill same as President’s Budget AIWW/IWW: Norfolk District: FY22 President’s Budget – ACC Canal- $ 3.015 million,… Read More
$102 million project is creating new beach, marsh on West Grand Terre Once the headquarters of Jean Lafitte and later the site of a U.S. military fort, West Grand Terre island now hosts a fleet of modern excavators and sand-pumping pipelines rather than smuggled treasure or cannon. The $102 million restoration of West Grand Terre,… Read More
To date, offshore wind development in the U.S. has focused on the Atlantic Coast, particularly the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. But the Biden Administration has ambitious plans to expand offshore wind to the Gulf of Mexico—and those plans are beginning to take shape. Federal officials are now soliciting interest from offshore wind developers. Such development… Read More
Offshore wind turbines are back on the radar for southeastern North Carolina local governments. Brunswick County’s board of commissioners will consider a resolution opposing offshore wind turbines sited fewer than 24 nautical miles of the shoreline, following the lead of a handful of its oceanfront towns, including Bald Head Island, Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach… Read More
CHATHAM – When Ken Cirillo took over the Barnstable County dredge program as its director in August 2020, he was tasked with one major assignment: stabilize the program. It was a lofty task given the challenges the program had faced in recent years, most notably dealing with equipment issues that continuously plagued the county’s two… Read More
Barnstable County Dredge Superintendent Jason Bevis pointed the bow of the Stephen S. Bradbury toward a private beach in Harwich. Humming around the Bradbury in the calm, mid-June waters were four Carolina skiffs manned by the county dredge crew. “Security call, Barnstable County dredge,” Bevis said into the black radio he clutched. “Pipeline floating from Saquatucket-Wychmere… Read More
WEST GRAND TERRE ISLAND, La. (AP) — Excavators, bulldozers and a dredge miles away from them are working on a $100 million project to raise and reshape a Louisiana barrier island. West Grand Terre Island helps protect communities from New Orleans’ west bank to Bayou Lafourche from hurricanes and storm surge, depending on the storm’s… Read More