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Ten months after being approved in U.S. House with heavy bipartisan support, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act has passed the Senate and is headed for President Donald Trump’s desk. The bipartisan bill would reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — set to expire at the end of FY 2021 — for another five years,… Read More
Padre Island’s shoreline will never look the same. The county’s long-loved Bob Hall Pier will come down, and a new pier come up in its place, commissioners decided Friday. The replacement will be “bigger, better, stronger,” said Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales. The option to raze and rebuild the pier has been in discussion for months…. Read More
WESTERLY — Work on an eelgrass restoration project that is expected to include the removal of 70,800 cubic yards of sand from the bottom of Winnapaug Pond has been delayed again after contractors submitted bids that exceeded cost estimates. The dredge portion of the project had been scheduled to occur during the current dredge window,… Read More
A first step at a recent Town Hall meeting, held via Zoom, was to rename the former town landings task force the Shoreline Access Task Force to include more than just official town landings. Bay Constable Peter Vielbig led a group of members to organize the work ahead and solve problems, some of which have… Read More
To maintain the health of the pond and protect nearby Manhasset Bay, Nassau County will dredge Port Washington’s Baxter’s Pond to clear harmful debris from its basin, Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D – Glen Cove) said. With support from Baxter Estates Mayor Nora Haagenson and Baxter’s Pond Foundation President Nancy Comer, Legislator DeRiggi-Whitton advocated… Read More
BERLIN – A grant could help with the restoration of the Jenkins Point shoreline. The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) has applied to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for funding to aid in the Jenkins Point shoreline restoration. Jenkins Point Peninsula, located just south of the Route 90 bridge, has fragmented and eroded dramatically… Read More
Two key pieces of federal legislation could shave off years waiting to start construction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $2.6 billion upper Ohio River project. The project, still in the design phase, replaces a lock each at the Emsworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams. Recent legislation — the omnibus appropriations and covid-19… Read More
A big dam problem required a big dam solution. After seven years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is wrapping up the East Branch Dam Cutoff Wall Rehabilitation project in Elk County, Pennsylvania. The project was to install a cutoff wall – a 1,500-foot concrete barrier designed to seal the dam’s interior from… Read More
In a demonstration of collaboration and innovation, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center deployed an experimental asset and team of experts to the Missouri River in the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to assist in dredging shallow areas called shoals in the navigation river channel. Missouri River Basin partners include… Read More
MOBILE, Ala. – After 10 years of planning and executing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District’s Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) completed the second largest restoration project in the history of the National Park Service, the restoration of Ship Island. Ship Island, a barrier island on the western tip of Gulf Islands National… Read More
WASHINGTON (December 22, 2020) – Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) praised Congressional passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 as part of the FY 2021 omnibus spending bill and urged President Trump to sign it into law. DCA CEO Richard Balzano made the following statement in support of WRDA’s passage: “For the first time,… Read More
Following the selection last June of the SEA Defence project by the European Commission (EC) within the European Defense Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP 2019), the consortium is proud to announce the official start of the project. The EDIDP, which paves the way for the European Defence Fund, focuses on strengthening the European defence technological and… Read More
The Westport Marina dredging project, which began in August 2019, has wrapped and now, for the first time in 40 years, the boat basin is dredged to proper depths for the various vessels that use it, according to the Port of Grays Harbor. “We are extremely pleased to see this important project come to a… Read More
— Vessel will base operations out of Hampton Roads and is expected to be available to support U.S. offshore wind turbine installations by the end of 2023 — Global shipbuilding firm Keppel AmFELS is constructing vessel at Brownsville, Texas shipyard — Project supports Dominion Energy’s industry-leading clean energy profile RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/… Read More