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Now that would be a whopper of an April Fools’ Day joke, but it happened. A dredging crew’s April 1 mix-up resulted in a surprise appearance in Tampa Bay just yards from the Anna Maria shoreline. Their location was in error and what followed, an overnight cold front, led to the April 2 closure of… Read More
On your marks, get set. Soon there will be smooth sailing. The Bradenton Beach dredging and seagrass mitigation project will begin this month with the goal to create a more navigable channel. The mitigation contractor was set to begin staging its equipment April 2, according to city attorney Ricinda Perry. Staging — involving setting up… Read More
Tacoma, WA – On Wednesday, March 31, U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer (WA-06) joined Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) and Bill Posey (FL-08), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Estuary Caucus, and 35 House Members in calling on the Biden Administration to provide $10 billion in the next recovery package for coastal restoration and resilience projects. “Many of our coastal communities… Read More
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued the next phase of technical guidance under its Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO). Though it marks another step forward by the CDC, it gives no date for a restart of cruising from the U.S, and it remains unclear whether it is a sufficient advance… Read More
STRUTHERS — Dam removal work on the Mahoning River in Mahoning County is resuming for 2021. In a regional effort to revitalize the waterway between Mahoning and Trumbull counties, Struthers is the next community to have its dam removed. Mayor Catherine Cercone Miller said the work will kick off in May and wrap up in… Read More
MAUMEE – How does one dispose of an annual 1.5 million cubic yards of dredged sediment in an economically and ecologically feasible way, now that dumping it into Lake Erie was officially banned last year? The potential answers were discussed at the March Agribusiness Forum hosted by the Center for Innovative Food Technology and held… Read More
https://wus-streaming-video-msn-com.akamaized.net/18f85409-4c1c-4d9a-9551-b04d699270bf/32597fbc-f73c-4722-851d-2dc1268e_2250.mp4 An earthmover worked to dredge sand from a beach in Water Mill, New York. Drone video taken by Joanna Steidle from Hamptons Drone Images shows the diggers moving sand to help the bay connect with the ocean. The work to open the bay is part of an over 400-year tradition to help the salinity… Read More
MASSENA, N.Y. (WWTI) — Cleanup efforts will continue beginning in April at the Grasse River Superfund Site. The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that in-river work will resume; aiming to address sediment contaminated at the Grasse River Superfund Site, Alcoa Aggregation, in Massena, New York. Arconic to provide over $2 million to… Read More
Pavement that allows water to soak through to the ground below now covers 500 feet of a street in downtown Beaufort, part of a town effort to better manage stormwater. The town worked with the North Carolina Coastal Federation, which publishes Coastal Review, to include permeable paving as part of a capital improvement project recently… Read More
DURHAM, N.H.– As the Biden administration announces a plan to expand the development of offshore wind energy development (OWD) along the East Coast, research from the University of New Hampshire shows significant support from an unlikely group, coastal recreation visitors. From boat enthusiasts to anglers, researchers found surprisingly widespread support with close to 77% of… Read More
The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division is extending the alternate schedule on Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke through April 12 due to continued shoaling issues in the ferry channel just outside of Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The schedule through April 12, weather permitting, is as follows: Ocracoke to Cedar Island:… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — The $31.6 million Emerald Isle beach nourishment project continued over the long Easter weekend, and officials are urging beachgoers to stay away from equipment and off the new dunes. There are two dredges working on the project, the large hopper dredge Ellis Island and the smaller hopper Liberty Island, both owned and… Read More
BALD HEAD ISLAND, NC (WWAY) — A dredging project that has been happening since January on Bald Head Island is nearing completion. The Village of Bald Head Island says the Wilmington Harbor Inner Ocean Bar Project is expected to be finished on Friday, April 2. The project was to dredge the federal navigation channel reaches… Read More
MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette has applied for a Michigan Department of Natural Resources waterways grant to help fund the completion of the Presque Isle Marina project. The Marquette City Commission voted 6-0 to approve moving forward with the grant application at last Monday night’s meeting, ahead of the Thursday’s application deadline. Mayor Jenna… Read More
Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to store carbon in the soil over a period of 50 years, according to a new paper published in American Geophysical Union Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. “This reduction in capacity could significantly alter the global carbon budget,… Read More