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EMERALD ISLE — Crews from EarthBalance, a Florida-based company, began hand-planting the first of about 500,000 pieces of vegetation Thursday on new dunes created in the recently completed $31.6 million Emerald Isle beach nourishment project. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said in an email Thursday the effort is expected to take… Read More
CAPE CARTERET — The Old Ferry Channel/Deer Creek dredging project is complete now that a contractor has finished paving streets damaged by heavy equipment hauling dredge spoils to disposal sites. Thomas Simpson Construction Co. of Beaufort, a subcontractor for dredge firm T.D. Eure, also of Beaufort, did the street work on Live Oak Street, Bayshore… Read More
MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette has come a long way in the restoration of Lakeshore Boulevard. Phase one, which involved raising the road and moving it 300 feet inland, adding a multiuse path and accessible parking areas, and initial shoreline and beach stabilization work, was completed last October. The total cost of phase one… Read More
MUSKEGON, MI – Though Lake Michigan water levels have dropped, parking threatened by erosion at Pere Marquette beach’s far south end will remain closed off perhaps for several years. Severe erosion has caused a hazardous steep drop-off in front of the parking spots that the city of Muskegon blocked off about a year ago. While… Read More
SALISBURY — The town manager will be asking Town Meeting votes May 17 to OK borrowing up to $5.1 million to pay for work to control beach erosion and flooding. The annual spring Town Meeting will take place in the Salisbury Elementary School gymnasium on Monday, May 17 at 7 p.m. Town Manager Neil Harrington said the… Read More
NORTHWEST INDIANA – Congressman Frank Mrvan (D-1) is seeking more than $42 million for northwest Indiana community projects. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the funding would be used for several projects focused on improving the Lake Michigan shoreline. The Times reports Mrvan requested $18.4 million to expand the capacity of the confined… Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Governor Ron DeSantis announced that more than $111 million has been awarded to 22 communities through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s Rebuild Florida General Infrastructure Repair Program for communities impacted by Hurricane Michael. The program is designed to provide funding for local governments to strategically rebuild and harden infrastructure in… Read More
Weather delays and recent Grunion runs on Oceanside beaches have disrupted this year’s dredging plans. OCEANSIDE, CA — The City of Oceanside released a Harbor Dredging and Beach Sand Update on the progress of the Oceanside Harbor dredge that began on April 5th. As of May 5, Manson Construction has dredged 215,000 cubic yards of… Read More
West Cliff is one of the city’s most beloved places to walk, bike or drive, for young and old, and residents and visitors alike. But this iconic corridor has long been under threat from wave erosion. The city has now completed an exhaustive evaluation of the cliff erosion hot spots and problem areas and has… Read More
Join hosts Monica Pedersen and Mark Nilsson as they see carpenters’ roles in the future of our waterways and discover some awesome benefits offered by various unions. Source
Washington, D.C. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (Corps) and the state of Maryland Department of Natural Resources have entered into an agreement allowing the Corps to use sand from the Outer Continental Shelf for scheduled beach nourishment as part of its Atlantic Coast of… Read More
Officials seek to conserve vast area of salt marsh as bulwark against storm surge, erosion, flooding Along the U.S. Southeast coast, communities and military installations face a common enemy—floods, erosion, and rising seas. In response, military and government leaders are looking to fight nature with nature. A group of regional government and military officials launched… Read More
After a slow start, the offshore wind industry in the United States is finally poised to take off. Just last month, the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalized its environmental analysis relating to the first proposed large-scale, commercial wind farm offshore the United States. This not only signaled that BOEM will… Read More
The company’s first utility-scale solar plus battery storage project of 460MWAC reaches commercial operation, making Ørsted the first developer to operate the full spectrum of new renewable technologies at utility scale in the US. Permian Energy Center in Andrews County, Texas. Ørsted has completed its Permian Energy Center project, a 460 MWAC hybrid solar and battery… Read More
The Ocean State’s famous shoreline is shrinking, putting vital infrastructure at risk and drowning essential ecosystems. If we don’t adapt, the future will be all wet. Text and video by FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staff The most violent and destructive natural disaster in New England recorded history forever changed Rhode Island’s coastline. In the eight decades… Read More