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Co-authored letter stresses urgent need for vital restoration project to sustain Louisiana’s coast NEW ORLEANS (June 1, 2021) — A group of more than 55 natural and physical scientists, engineers and social scientists with a combined 1,300 years of research and technical experience related to Louisiana’s coast have co-authored and signed a letter voicing support… Read More
In the 1940s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was authorized to dredge the Vermilion River to make it navigable for watercraft. Eighty-one years later, the funding has come through — in the middle of a heightening panic about flooding in the Acadiana region. Just before the pandemic, the idea of dredging the river’s path… Read More
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Earlier this week, Cottrell Contracting began dredging sand from New Pass for placement along southern Longboat Key, from the Sanctuary to Sands Point. Beach work began just south of the L’Ambiance property and will progress southward to the terminal structure at New Pass. Once that portion of the beach is complete,… Read More
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In early May Gator Dredging mobilized their 18″ hydraulic dredge, the “Brittyn B”, an Ellicott Series 1270 model, for a beach re-nourishment project located at Honeymoon Island State Park in Pinellas County. This project is being performed for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and behalf of the Florida Parks Service and is nearing completion…. Read More
There are already close to 400 registered for June’s final instalment in the Commercial Marine Network’s decarbonisation webinar series. The free to attend online event takes place on Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 10:00 – 11:00 BST and will tackle the long term – 2035 onwards: The future fuel race – battery, hydrogen etc… How… Read More
Notice to Mariners Erie Canal – Herkimer June 9, 2021 Mariners are advised that a channel encroachment exists due to dredging operations just to the west of the Mohawk Street Bridge (E-36) over the Erie Canal in Herkimer. When transiting this area boaters should use the north side of the navigation channel. Use caution and… Read More
JAMES CITY COUNTY — After the first phase of the James City County Marina improvement project began in November 2020, the county anticipated it nearing completion by early summer of this year. But, after additional setbacks, JCC Parks Administrator Alister Perkinson said residents will have to wait as the county pushes back its completion date… Read More
A constellation of 5,400 offshore wind turbines meet a growing portion of Europe’s energy needs. The United States has exactly seven. With more than 90,000 miles of coastline, the country has plenty of places to plunk down turbines. But legal, environmental and economic obstacles and even vanity have stood in the way. President Joe Biden… Read More
The Business Network for Offshore Wind today published its Offshore Wind Policy Brief: The U.S. Opportunity in Floating Offshore Wind. The brief comes on the heels of the Biden administration’s recent announcement that the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense have reached an agreement to advance areas off California’s northern and central coasts… Read More
President Biden has ended negotiations with Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Republicans over infrastructure legislation, telling Capito Tuesday that the latest GOP offer didn’t “meet the essential needs of our country” to fix roads and bridges, prepare the nation for a future reliant on clean energy and create jobs, according to White House press secretary… Read More
The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced its intent to assess potential opportunities to advance clean energy development on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The department says this “significant milestone is part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to create thousands of jobs through the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore… Read More
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — A project intended to protect the South Shore’s coastal communities is finally set to get underway in the fall after years of delays. Funding was approved for the project, known as “Living Breakwaters,” and state-run construction was meant to have begun in 2018, according to a 2017 report from the Advance/SILive.com,… Read More
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing approximately $6 million to rebuild M-185 on Mackinac Island, addressing high-water and wave erosion damage on the shoreline. Roughly 4 mi. of the highway around the island — the only state highway in Michigan that does not regularly allow automobile traffic —sustained ongoing damage that escalated in… Read More
A sea wall is at its greatest strength on the day it’s installed, says Rachel Gwin. In comparison, natural living shorelines “grow stronger with time,” said Gwin, who is the restoration coordinator for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance of Northwest Florida State College. “They’re low maintenance and not very costly to repair.” The nonprofit, Santa Rosa… Read More