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MOREHEAD CITY — Carteret County-area commercials and recreational fishermen are working with Coastal Carolina Riverwatch to tackle threats to water quality. CCRW announced Wednesday it’s launched a new program, Water Quality for Fisheries. The effort is a collaboration between CCRW and commercial and recreational fishermen to build stakeholder and public support for improving North Carolina’s… Read More
Voters approve $1.9M for sewage treatment facility, money to hire two new EMTs WELLFLEET – Town meeting voters on Saturday OK’d a $21.7 million municipal budget and $1.9 million to build a sewage treatment plant for an affordable housing project planned for Lawrence Road. Town meeting also approved Fire Chief Richard Pauley’s request for… Read More
Crews are working along the Vermilion River in Lafayette Parish. It’s the first phase of Lafayette Consolidated Government’s plan to spot dredge the river, preventing future flooding. According to officials with Dredge the Vermilion, a contracted company has cleared two miles of the river within the last two weeks. Brent Logan and Harold Schoeffler tell… Read More
WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) – It cost $3.5 million to get sand offshore to put on the beach between Kuhio Beach Park and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in a project completed last month. But some are wondering if the ocean is already reclaiming a lot of that sand. The state retrieved nearly 22,000 cubic yards of sand… Read More
AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) – The dredging project at Lake Olmstead in Augusta is making progress! The work began earlier this year. Crews are almost done with the upper pond and anticipate moving to the lower pond in just a few weeks. The lake is at the heart of downtown Augusta. It has filled in over time,… Read More
The Ottawa, Canada, headquartered Chamber of Marine Commerce doesn’t like new ballast water regulations released by Transport Canada. In fact, Its president and CEO, Bruce Burrows, calls them “a half-baked solution.” The Chamber says the new regulations “unfairly target Canadian ship operators—who have spent billions of dollars on new fuel-efficient, eco-ships—while giving an extra six… Read More
Beach will be off limits until at least July 1 Starting Monday, Basin Head Provincial Park beach in Souris, P.E.I., will be closed to the public for dredging of the channel. The provincial government said security will be at the beach to tell people it’s closed. The Basin Head Fisheries Museum remains open to the public…. Read More
U.S. offshore wind development is picking up pace, with the Biden administration doing everything open to it to remove kinks from the regulatory pipeline. With multiple Atlantic Coast projects moving along, the White House last month made an announcement that could see the offshore California wind lease sale by mid-2022. As we’ll discuss later, that… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Sea levels in California are projected to rise up to 55 inches by the end of the century, so climate advocates are calling on Congress to fund coastal restoration projects to mitigate potential flooding. More than 100 groups signed a letter calling on lawmakers to include $10 billion for such projects nationwide… Read More
Current U.S. law requires all revenues generated from offshore wind leases and production beyond state waters be deposited in the U.S. Treasury. Now a bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would see a share of that money go to coastal states. Introduced by U.S. senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) and Sheldon Whitehouse… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its report on the September 19, 2019, incident in which 11 barges broke free from a San Jacinto River barge fleeting area near the Interstate 10 (I-10) bridge in Channelview, Texas. Six barges struck pier columns supporting the bridge. No pollution or injuries were reported. Total damages,… Read More
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — On the heels of last week’s public meeting announcing plans to remove the failing dam at Horseshoe Lake, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District officials have released an additional video to further explain their decision. The proposed $28.3 million project will also include an overhaul of the Lower Lake dam downstream in… Read More
Beach areas will be temporary closed during the restoration work; see what beaches will be impacted and on what days the work will commence. MONTAUK, NY — Storm-socked beaches in Montauk will be the focus of restoration efforts in the coming days, town officials said Tuesday. Following the loss of sand from the ocean beach… Read More
ATLANTIC — The N.C. Coastal Federation has finished planting 70,198 grasses landward of the new living shoreline at Atlantic Harbor, concluding a joint project with Carteret County that also included dredging the channel to the harbor. Dr. Lexia Weaver, coastal scientist and manager of the federation’s central regional office in Ocean, said the work Down East… Read More
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — We have an update on a story we brought you yesterday. The mystery of the strange barge near Wrightsville Beach access four has finally been solved. Residents theorized the boat, which showed up last weekend, was an oil rig. The Army Corp of Engineers believed it could be a research… Read More