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Commissioner Jim Tobin announced at the Monday, March 15 meeting of the Dare County Board Commissioners that construction of the special purpose dredge, the Miss Katie, is underway in Louisiana. County manager Robert L. Outten also announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sidecaster dredge the Merritt has broken through a clogged South Ferry… Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. – Thousands of years ago, the Mississippi River Delta was formed from sediment deposited from the river. Layers upon layers of sand, silt and clay make up the land that millions of people live and work on today. But in the past 100 years, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of… Read More
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia says it will spend $19 million to clean up sludge in Boat Harbour created by effluent from the Northern Pulp mill, after the company missed deadlines to submit a plan for its portion of the remediation. The government said Tuesday the cleanup of the lagoon near the Mi’kmaq community in the… Read More
As the eighth annual North Carolina Marine Debris Symposium was taking place online last month, work was about to begin on removing an abandoned and derelict vessel from Onslow County waters near Swansboro. Ben Solomon, environmental specialist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, shared the news about the removal of the 50-foot shrimp trawler… Read More
A natural shoreline erosion project coming to a small island off Naval Air Station Pensacola could become a catalyst for a swath of similar projects aimed at protecting Escambia and Santa Rosa counties’ shores from the type of damage sustained during Hurricane Sally. The White Island living shoreline project was recently greenlighted for a $9… Read More
Hotter summers in Iraq are blasting soldiers sitting inside armored vehicles. Flooding is threatening the world’s largest navy base. Russian submarines are prowling the melting Arctic. Now NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants to make global warming a major focus of the military alliance’s strategy and planning, pushing environmental issues to the center as a… Read More
Dane County has acquired a $650,000 dredge as part of an ongoing multimillion-dollar effort to alleviate flooding on the Yahara Chain of Lakes. The 42-foot Ellicot “Dragon Dredge” will be used to suck decades of silt and muck from choke points between the lakes that have hindered the county’s ability to manage water levels on… Read More
A project to improve an artificial pond in a Town of Niagara park is expected to reduce algae in Hyde Park Lake in Niagara Falls and improve the quality of water reaching the Niagara River. Elmer’s Pond, located in the town’s Veterans Memorial Park off Lockport Road, is to be enlarged and deepened as part… Read More
American offshore wind farms, of which there are 17 in the works for the Atlantic Ocean, are no longer far off on the horizon. The overall magnitude of this emerging renewable energy industry is starting to take shape. By Brian X. McCrone Published March 20, 2021 • Updated on March 22, 2021 at 10:21 am… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — The largest hopper dredge in the U.S. arrived in Carteret County as expected Tuesday and got to work right away on the 2-million-cubic-yard Emerald Isle beach nourishment project. The Ellis Island, owned by contractor Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. of Illinois, went straight to the sand borrow site off Atlantic Beach,… Read More
A proposed $2 billion project could protect and restore thousands of acres of Louisiana wetlands, but there will be work to do to mitigate the potential downsides, officials said last week. “This is a big deal,” said Chip Kline, who chairs the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. “This is the largest coastal restoration project… Read More
The beach access point at 6399 Gulfside Road will remain closed until mid-April. The town of Longboat Key has temporarily closed its public beach access point at 6399 Gulfside Road. Friday’s closure is expected to last until mid-April because of work on its beach renourishment project. “It’s basically only open for residential foot traffic and… Read More
New seawall, pilings, tie-backs needed to safeguard critical coastal railroad DEL MAR — Emergency repairs to safeguard the railroad tracks on the Del Mar bluffs will cost about $10.5 million, regional planning officials said this week. A 288-foot-long seawall will be built to replace the one that collapsed in late February. Since then, because of safety… Read More
The University of South Alabama will begin a new era of coastal education and research with a newly created School of Marine and Environmental Sciences. Plans call for new undergraduate and graduate programs to complement the existing degrees that have been offered by the department of marine sciences. “We can make a much larger impact by… Read More