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Vermilion City Council voted during a Jan. 4 meeting to support the Main Street Beach revitalization project, which aims to make the city’s lakefront more accessible with a comfort station, more parking and improved greenery space. All Council members, except Ward 4 Councilwoman Barb Brady, voted to suspend the rules and pass the resolution on… Read More
Grant money awarded to the city of Lorain to study port dredging will pay for the start of a similar project in Fairport Harbor. On Jan. 4, Lorain City Council approved an agreement between the city and the Lake County Ohio Port and Economic Development Authority. The city of Lorain will grant $750,000 for the… Read More
New council member supports separating lake dredging effort from dam change and pedestrian project. The number of Rochester City Council members seeking to split proposed changes to the Silver Lake Dam from planned dredging doubled Monday. “I happen to wholeheartedly agree with council member (Shaun) Palmer that there are really two different projects here,” Ward… Read More
The $20-million waterway dredging and improvement project touches three Camden County communities and isn’t expected to conclude until 2022. Environmentalists and county officials say it’s going well so far. By Katrina Janco | January 5, 2021 Newton Lake Park dredging project, September 2020. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. The initial phase of the $20-million, three-phase Newton Creek… Read More
MUNISING, Mich. (WLUC) – Sand Point, a prominent coastal feature and beach destination located near the westernmost boundary of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, was modified in the early 1990s with the placement of a large rock rubble-mound revetment measuring approximately 650 linear feet by 32 feet wide. The purpose of the revetment installation was to… Read More
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The nation’s largest estuary is still getting a D-plus grade for its overall health, according to a report released Tuesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. While the grade for the bay’s health remained the same, the score dropped one point from the foundation’s last report two years ago — largely due… Read More
MANCHESTER — Town officials are looking at a new annual mooring fee to help cover dredging costs. Officials are preparing for phase two of the Manchester Harbor project — a full dredge of the waters around Proctor’s Cove and its channel leading out of the harbor. Three years ago, the town fully dredged Area C of Manchester Harbor, which includes the coast off Masconomo… Read More
Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche, the Barataria Bay in Louisiana is a latticework of shrinking marsh, swamp, and islands. Few other coastlines in the Mississippi River Delta—or anywhere in the United States—have changed as much in recent decades. According to one estimate, the bay lost 430 square miles (1120 square kilometers) of… Read More
Public Works finished the right-of-way mowing that the department is responsible for. There are several areas around Town that is mowed that is not part of the mowing contract. The dredging project in the section of Anchor Way Canal has been completed. Public Works removed the old day markers in this canal, and new ones are being… Read More
Washington D.C. – The American Clean Power Association (ACP) released the following statement after the Massachusetts legislature passed An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy. The Act raises the Commonwealth’s Renewable Portfolio Standard target to 40 percent by 2030 and authorizes an additional 2,400 MW of offshore wind procurement, creating a total… Read More
First came the new name. Then there was the new sign. Now comes lots of new sand. Patrick Space Force Base is getting its share of a $48 million beach renourishment project, which will spread the equivalent of more than 22,000 of truck loads worth of sand onto the base from shoals five miles off of Cape Canaveral. “Beach… Read More
Traffic is down at the Soo Locks. Demand for iron ore and other commodities is down compared to last year. But some Great Lakes shipping companies are beginning to see things get a little bit better. “We are starting to see a rebound from where we were in the summer time,” says Lake Carrier Association… Read More
By David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News and Lise Olsen, Texas Observer This article was published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news outlet that covers climate, energy and the environment, and the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. This is part 5 of “Super Threats,” a series on Superfund sites and… Read More
While much of the state was paying attention to the COVID-19 relief package that passed Congress on Monday, Congressman Peter DeFazio was celebrating another win. DeFazio, who serves as the chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said the spending bill that also passed was a big win for the nation’s coastal communities…. Read More
Because of the significant contributions from many partners and supporters during this difficult year, the North Carolina Coastal Federation, which publishes Coastal Review Online, has been able to continue its work to protect and restore the state’s coast. While the federation had to adapt to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit organization… Read More