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Part of the St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph could be dredged this spring. We reported last year on Berrien County’s efforts to secure a grant to allow for dredging around the island as boaters reported the water becoming too shallow for navigation. Berrien County Community Development Director Dan Fette had an… Read More
President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal funding shows little sign of thawing for climate, energy and environmental justice programs. Despite two federal court orders directing the administration to resume distributing federal grants and loans, at least $19 billion in Environmental Protection Agency funding to thousands of state and local governments and nonprofits remained on hold… Read More
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, will begin maintenance dredging of the Palm Beach Harbor, Palm Beach County, Florida, on or around March 3, 2025. The project was awarded to Weeks Marine Inc. of Covington, Louisiana, on November 22, 2024. The contract amount is $10,125,750.00. The Dredge E.W. Ellefson, a cutter/suction… Read More
MARTIN COUNTY — A contaminated site here along the St. Lucie Canal is expected to be cleaned up and developed into a marine operation for nearly $9 million. The plans are likely to come to fruition following the County Commission’s decision Tuesday to designate the land as a brownfield, where expansion, redevelopment or reuse “may… Read More
The lack of progress on planned dredging work at the Brunswick Harbor by the Army Corps of Engineers is raising questions by U.S. Sens. Jon Offoff and Raphael Warnock, the state’s voices in the U.S. Senate. The two Democrats have sent a letter to Corps leadership expressing “alarm over the Corps’ failure to dredge the… Read More
A $6.7 million project to restore almost 3 miles of island sand dunes destroyed by hurricanes Ian and Nicole is now more than halfway completed, according to county officials. Crews staged on Sea Court in John’s Island are working around the Beachcomber Lane area, including Sea Forest and Village Shores neighborhoods. So far the project… Read More
The proposal aims to improve coastal resiliency and lower flood insurance costs. Coastal resilience is perpetually top-of-mind for lawmakers from oceanside districts like Sen. Ileana Garcia and Rep. Jim Mooney, so it’s no surprise they’re again running legislation to strengthen Sunshine State shores. A Senate panel just advanced the proposal. The measure (SB 50) would establish more stringent… Read More
Coastal advocates are pressing state officials for answers on the future of the $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, an unprecedented wetlands restoration plan years in the works but recently thrown into doubt because of opposition from Gov. Jeff Landry. Few of those answers emerged at a public hearing Tuesday on the state’s annual coastal plan. Advocates… Read More
A US federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a ruling that allows foreign-flag ships to install rocks in key stages of an offshore wind project. The case filed by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was a test of the limits of the Jones Act, the law… Read More
The emergency dredging and beach nourishment project at the Indian River Inlet is almost finished. Work started back in November to add almost 500,000 cubic yards of sand to the dunes and beaches. State officials made a visit to the area last Friday to check out the progress and learn more. Work is expected to… Read More
Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. It’s become a cliché to say that Louisiana is losing a football field of wetlands every 100 minutes, but the wetlands in Louisiana are key to communities, industry and wildlife in Louisiana. People live on the land in such places to be as close to their… Read More
Over the past several years, federal agencies announced billions of dollars in grants for local governments, businesses, nonprofits and community organizations throughout Virginia. The money trickled down through the Biden administration’s sweeping laws aimed at boosting infrastructure and fighting climate change. Now, revoking those funding sources is a key part of President Donald Trump’s agenda…. Read More
The venerable dredge boat Liberty Island and the new state-of-the-art hopper dredge Galveston Island have arrived off the coast of Ocean County, as well as several support vessels, but local officials said the long-awaited beach replenishment project could be delayed by a few days if a winter storm moves through the area. The project was slated to officially begin Monday, and… Read More
The good news is that Tobay Beach on the Town of Oyster Bay’s South Shore is undergoing the largest sand restoration project in recent memory. The United States Army Corps of Engineers has been pumping 90,000 tons of sand back onto the beach under a $3 million town project aided by a $1.69 million investment… Read More
Beaches across Ocean County are being replenished beginning Monday. The total project costs $73.5 million. It includes $30.2 million in funding from the federal infrastructure bill passed by Congress. According to Seaside Heights Borough Mayor Tony Vaz, taxpayers won’t feel the pinch. Vaz said 75% of the project is being funded by the federal government,… Read More