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Augusta, ME (STL.News) Governor Janet Mills today proposed a series of actions to advance the nation’s first floating offshore wind research array in federal waters and to protect Maine’s more heavily fished state waters. In a letter to Maine’s licensed commercial fishermen (PDF), Governor Mills announced that she will propose for the Legislature’s approval a 10-year moratorium… Read More
Pollution keeps flowing past the Conowingo Dam toward the Chesapeake Bay but it’s unclear who is going to pay to offset it. A new strategy, though, outlines how it might be done. The Conowingo financing strategy calls for creating an independent financing authority that would receive funds and invest them in ways that would both… Read More
The latest State of the Bay report gives the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay a D-plus grade that’s a slight drop. But the report also offers hope that efforts by Virginia and other states in the watershed are making a difference. And there’s reason for optimism that new support on the federal level will… Read More
Quincy, MA – New England’s busiest port moves closer to welcoming larger containerships and growing the regional economy thanks to Cashman Dredging and JV Partner The Dutra Group completing Phase II of III of the U.S. Army Corps’ Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project last month, nearly one year ahead of schedule. Beginning in July of… Read More
By Richard Balzano Congress recently made a major, if little noticed, new investment in American infrastructure. As part of the year-end budget deal, lawmakers released $10 billion that had been locked away in the Harbor Maintenance Tax Trust Fund to be used for its intended purpose: dredging U.S. harbors to keep our ports open and support U.S. economic and national security. Maritime infrastructure is an indispensable national asset, which is why the U.S. Department of… Read More
(Reuters) – Two Fieldwood Energy LLC oil workers face federal criminal charges for allegedly separately allowing crude oil spills from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms to avoid required shut downs. The two were indicted Tuesday for spills in 2015 and 2018, according to complaints by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana…. Read More
Congress’ amendments to the Jan. 1 National Defense Authorization Act “cleared up any ambiguity” that all U.S. laws governing offshore energy apply equally to the new wind sector, a top maritime lawyer says. “Prior to that, it wasn’t so clear…All those laws are crystal-clear now,” Charlie Papavizas, chair of maritime practice in the international law… Read More
PLUM ISLAND — The federal budget for the coming fiscal year includes $19 million for dredging sand from the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers, with thousands of cubic yards of that sand targeted to help stem erosion at the beach along Reservation Terrace. Plum Island Foundation President Marc Sarkady said more than 220,000 cubic yards of sand from… Read More
A public posting by Collier Materials concerning dredging permits for Lake LBJ is insufficient, said Save Lake LBJ, a group concerned about the impact of equipment traffic on country roads and wildlife, noise pollution, and the effect on Lake LBJ itself. Collier Materials officially filed Jan. 18 with the Lower Colorado River Authority for permits… Read More
What’s in a Wall? Rising seas, strengthening storms and eye-popping real estate growth have forced Charleston to consider extreme steps to protect its downtown peninsula, the engine of the state’s relentless tourism industry. To do nothing is a nonstarter, and would risk billions of dollars in storm damage and gamble the city’s priceless cultural history…. Read More
The Schuylkill was supposed to be deeper by now. After tons of sediment were removed from the riverbed, the waters — and the historic regattas that run along it in Philadelphia — were meant to be restored to their former glory. But more than a year later, the project is at a standstill. Citing a… Read More
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Despite sluggish returns in 2020 due to unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, the global dredging market is expected to report 3.3% YOY growth in 2021, a significant improvement over 3.5% y-o-y exhibited in 2020, finds Fact MR in a new study. The overall growth outlook remains positive, especially as applications… Read More
BERKELEY – A dredging project is not only opening up channels for boaters but working to preserve salt marshes nearby. Boaters in the Berkeley Shores area have noticed for years that the channels were becoming difficult to navigate. The neighborhoods out there had man-made lagoons, and nature is hard to control. Erosion would cause the… Read More
Details about a comprehensive proposal laying out numerous options for disposal of dredge material occupied much of Wednesday’s meeting of the Dare County Waterways Commission, indicating that finding somewhere to put excess sand may be as challenging as finding ways to keep it from washing away. In a lengthy slide presentation on the proposed Dare… Read More