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The Tuckerton Borough Council approved a plan Monday allowing the community to solicit funds to act a a down payment for a Tuckerton Beach dredging project. The “hybrid” meeting of the council Monday night, July 20, in which the council and mayor met in town hall and others met virtually had some glitches – it… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a deal to purchase land that will serve as permanent storage for dredge material taken from Pool 5 for 80 to 100 years. KELLOGG — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found a home for up to 100 years of dredge material it will likely carve off… Read More
Washington County and Hagerstown officials were at odds again this week over another financial matter — the city’s request for the county landfill to accept dredging material from the Pangborn Park lake for free. Waiving the landfill fee for the material would cost the county about $110,000 to $139,000 in revenue if the county charged… Read More
Tropical Storm Cristobal ate away the beach of Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island to the huge sand-filled tube at the core of a protective levee, and the Army Corps of Engineers says permits and studies keep it or anyone else from repairing much of the beach until well after hurricane season. State and local officials… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers plans to expand its East Side disposal site for contaminated sediment as it nears capacity — crushing neighbors’ hopes for public park space along the river. EAST SIDE — The Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with plans to expand a lakefront dump site so the agency can continue… Read More
Augusta and others suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over plans for New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam will get a chance to inspect it themselves. The deepening of the Savannah harbor is about 70 percent complete, but upstream, a major mitigation effort continues to hits snags. It’s the New Savannah Bluff Lock and… Read More
LIDO BEACH, Fla. (WWSB) – 700,000 cubic yards of sand is now being pumped from Big Pass to Lido Beach as part of a major renourishment project. Sarasota city officials are calling this the Lido Shoreline Stabilization and Hurricane Protection Plan. They tell ABC 7, this will help with the erosion issues that continues to… Read More
FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — Flagler Beach is among the most fragile beaches on the east coast and for years the pounding surf has punished the dunes. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew took out a portion of A1A, but a new federal beautification project could provide some relief. Flagler County leaders are enthusiastic about the Army Corp… Read More
In a decision that Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called “a major victory for Connecticut’s maritime economy,” the U.S. District Court in New York has upheld the state’s choice of a new dredge disposal site in eastern Connecticut. The 1.3-mile underwater site, between the mouth of the Thames River and Fishers Island, was designated by… Read More
Administration will prepare a report with short-term and long-term goals on the lake cleanup while it is drained for work on the dam rehabilitation project. THUNDER BAY – With the water from Boulevard Lake drained due to the ongoing dam rehabilitation work, a city councilor wants to take advantage of the rare opportunity to do… Read More
The Hampton Roads Alliance has unveiled a new initiative to develop a comprehensive supply chain to serve the East Coast offshore wind industry. This effort is made possible largely thanks to a Department of Housing & Community Development GO Virginia grant of $529,788 that will help fund the first two years of this effort. This… Read More
FORT WORTH, Texas — Officials with the Regional Planning and Environmental Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announce today approval of the Whitney Lake Shoreline Management Plan. The US Army Corps of Engineers thanks you for your involvement and interest with the revision of the Whitney Lake Shoreline Management Plan. Public and stakeholder input was… Read More
FORT WORTH, Texas — Officials with the Regional Planning and Environmental Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announce today the approval of the Lake O’ the Pines Shoreline Management Plan. The US Army Corps of Engineers thanks you for your involvement and interest with the revision of the Lake O’ the Pines Shoreline Management Plan…. Read More
The Jordan Cove Energy Project hit another roadblock Friday after a state agency reversed local approval for part of the project’s construction. The city of North Bend had approved a local land use permit last year for Jordan Cove to operate a dredging project in the Coos Bay Estuary, which would make room for natural… Read More
Federal contractors remove hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and sand each year from the Toledo Harbor shipping channel to keep it deep enough for freighters plying the Great lakes to get to and from local docks. But when Ryba Marine Construction of Cheboygan, Mich., starts work in September on this year’s $2.1… Read More