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The final phase of dredging works at Peak Forest Canal in Manchester, UK has begun. Wet civil engineering specialist Land & Water has been carrying out the dredging project on behalf of the Canal & River Trust. The works, which started in September 2020 and are due to finish this month, has seen Land &… Read More
Restoration project will deepen resort guests’ connection to the land, shoreline and water. The Tides Inn, a resort situated on the Chesapeake Bay estuary in Irvington, Va., a two-and-a-half hour drive from Alexandria, recently began a shoreline restoration project, which will deepen its guests’ connection to the land, shoreline and water, the hotel announced last week…. Read More
Designs of the winter sports park feature an 80-foot tall hill with slopes extending toward Lake Mitchell, along with a ski lift and ice skating pond. The idea of using dredged sediment from Lake Mitchell to create a winter sports park is inching closer to becoming a reality. Over the past couple months, a team… Read More
Dredging will Restore Recreational Boaters’ Access to one of New York’s Great Waterways Navigation Channel Selected as Part of Governor Cuomo’s $15 Million Regional Dredging Initiative Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the start of dredging at Braddock Bay in Monroe County as part of the State’s $15 million REDI Regional Dredging Project, which removes built-up sediment from… Read More
A New Hampshire joint commission is scheduled to meet on 23 March to discuss offshore wind and port development in the state. On 30 July 2020, the State Governor Christopher Sununu signed a bill which, among other things, established an offshore wind commission and an offshore wind industry development office in the department of business… Read More
ONSLOW COUNTY — With a shoreline that recedes as much as 100 feet a year, North Topsail Beach is in trouble. The northernmost section of the 22-mile barrier island that includes Onslow and Pender counties has been clobbered by hurricanes and is under the constant threat of erosion. To combat its eroding shoreline, the Town… Read More
TOPSAIL BEACH, NC (WWAY) — The Town of Topsail Beach is partnering with the North Carolina Coastal Federation to install four living shoreline demonstration projects to reduce soundside erosion and maintain fisheries habitat. Restoration Systems have begun construction on the first phase of the living shoreline along Banks Channel, near the soundside public access at… Read More
Dare County Board of Commissioners will provide the additional funding needed for to break through shoaling in the South Ferry Channel, which will complete the Hatteras Inlet Dredging Project. The board approved the request for the funds for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredge Merritt to continue working in Hatteras Inlet long enough to… Read More
Commissioner Jim Tobin announced at the Monday, March 15 meeting of the Dare County Board Commissioners that construction of the special purpose dredge, the Miss Katie, is underway in Louisiana. County manager Robert L. Outten also announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sidecaster dredge the Merritt has broken through a clogged South Ferry… Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. – Thousands of years ago, the Mississippi River Delta was formed from sediment deposited from the river. Layers upon layers of sand, silt and clay make up the land that millions of people live and work on today. But in the past 100 years, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of… Read More
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia says it will spend $19 million to clean up sludge in Boat Harbour created by effluent from the Northern Pulp mill, after the company missed deadlines to submit a plan for its portion of the remediation. The government said Tuesday the cleanup of the lagoon near the Mi’kmaq community in the… Read More
As the eighth annual North Carolina Marine Debris Symposium was taking place online last month, work was about to begin on removing an abandoned and derelict vessel from Onslow County waters near Swansboro. Ben Solomon, environmental specialist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, shared the news about the removal of the 50-foot shrimp trawler… Read More
A natural shoreline erosion project coming to a small island off Naval Air Station Pensacola could become a catalyst for a swath of similar projects aimed at protecting Escambia and Santa Rosa counties’ shores from the type of damage sustained during Hurricane Sally. The White Island living shoreline project was recently greenlighted for a $9… Read More
Hotter summers in Iraq are blasting soldiers sitting inside armored vehicles. Flooding is threatening the world’s largest navy base. Russian submarines are prowling the melting Arctic. Now NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants to make global warming a major focus of the military alliance’s strategy and planning, pushing environmental issues to the center as a… Read More
Dane County has acquired a $650,000 dredge as part of an ongoing multimillion-dollar effort to alleviate flooding on the Yahara Chain of Lakes. The 42-foot Ellicot “Dragon Dredge” will be used to suck decades of silt and muck from choke points between the lakes that have hindered the county’s ability to manage water levels on… Read More