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The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed $44 million in grant funding for a roadway project at the north entrance of Port Newark and the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal, it announced this week. The Infrastructure for Rebuilding America discretionary grant would enable the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to modernize a 2.9-mile… Read More
Safe Harbor Marinas hopes to have the expansion completed within a year. ROCKLAND — A company that owns around 100 marinas across the country unveiled July 1 its plans to expand a marina in Rockland Harbor. Safe Harbor Marinas hopes to have the expansion completed within a year, with dredging to be done during the… Read More
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Waterway Improvement Funds (Chesapeake Beach, MD)– The Town of Chesapeake Beach is one of 60 projects in 19 counties, to receive funding that include grants for statewide projects and emergency water rescue needs. Through the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Waterway Improvement Fund, the Town will receive funding in the amount of $250,000, as requested… Read More
Funds Support Planning and Design of Green Infrastructure Solutions The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the award of $415,000 to seven climate resilience projects to help communities prepare for, and recover from, climate-related impacts. These competitive grants are designed to help communities plan and design solutions to withstand flooding and other weather-related events. The projects… Read More
It will cost more than $124 million to build a new multipurpose terminal in Humboldt Bay to support offshore wind energy, according to a preliminary cost estimate prepared for the Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. The district’s board of commissioners is slated to meet in a special session tomorrow, first in closed session to continue… Read More
California Sen. Alex Padilla announced legislation Tuesday to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels and stronger storms as a result of climate change. The Living Shorelines Act of 2021 aims to create two federal grant programs through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. One program will focus on assisting states, localities and nongovernmental organizations… Read More
Digging into the President’s FY22 Budget As reported last month, President Biden sent his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 detailed budget to Congress on May 28. The overall amount budgeted by the Administration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is $6.8 billion which is 14% more than the FY21 Budget; and the highest amount ever in… Read More
U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-2) and Jennifer González-Colón (R-P.R.), along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have introduced legislation that would reauthorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Coastal Program, which brings together FWS activities in priority coastal areas along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes,… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said yesterday that it will begin conducting an environmental review of a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) submitted by Vineyard Wind LLC, for its Vineyard Wind South offshore wind project. This comes after BOEM last moth granted approval for construction and ooperation of the Vineyard Wind I project…. Read More
Roads collapsing into the water, a stairway and pavilion swept away, dozens of yards of beach submerged: In the last year, erosion has pummeled the Lake Michigan shoreline and the property edging it. It was, locals say, the worst erosion they’ve seen on the lake in decades. But it’s not unprecedented. In fact, it’s part of a natural cycle… Read More
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – The Mona Lake channel to Lake Michigan that has been nearly impassable to boaters this year is getting dredged this week. The Mona Lake Improvement Association and the city of Norton Shores are paying the costs to remove beach sand that migrated to the west end of the channel just east… Read More
Amid encouraging signs, researchers and activists are struggling to make progress in the face of agricultural inputs, climate change, and relentless development. On a warm October day, six researchers ventured out to a reef in Baines Creek, a tributary of Virginia’s Elizabeth River. Back in 2014, the Army Corps of Engineers had dumped tons of… Read More
TAMPA, Fla. — Environmental groups are urging federal lawmakers to allocate $10 billion in the upcoming infrastructure package for coastal restoration projects to prevent flooding and bolster the economy. The move would have a big impact on Florida, where tidal flooding has increased by 352% since 2000. More than 100 groups have signed a letter… Read More
For weeks at a time, crews have been scouring remote sections of the West Coast — digging out massive fishing nets, hauling lines, tossing thousand of buoys and shifting mountains of Styrofoam to try to make a dent in the ocean refuse finding its way onto B.C.’s wildest shores. A shocking 210 tonnes of flotsam… Read More
The 147 hectares of intact coastal beach, sand dunes and wetlands was purchased for $780K The Nova Scotia Nature Trust has purchased a coastal wilderness area near Port La Tour, N.S., to save it from future development and provide a safe space for at-risk birds. Port La Tour Beach, which is about 11 kilometres south… Read More