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Smithtown will pay an East End contractor to map the shallow Long Island Sound floor near the mouth of Stony Brook Harbor as town officials make the case for dredging they say is needed to maintain access for thousands of recreational vessels as well as police and bay constables. The town proposal focuses on a… Read More
You could be reading today that the future use of the U.S. Submarine Base in Groton was in question, so too Electric Boat’s plans to utilize its shipyard in that town for construction of a new generation of submarines. Cross Sound Ferry could be evaluating possible ticket increases. Thankfully, none of that is the case… Read More
System storage is 61.8 MAF and has likely peaked (upper right quadrant). Last week the National Weather Service updated their August (lower right quadrant) and August-October precipitation and temperature outlooks. Mountain snowpack has essentially melted. Fort Peck releases will be reduced from 11,000 cfs to 9,000 cfs on July 28 for about 2 weeks to… Read More
The State of New York has announced its second offshore wind solicitation, seeking up to 2,500 MW of projects. The solicitation includes a multi-port strategy and requirement for offshore wind generators to partner with any of the eleven prequalified New York ports to stage, construct, manufacture key components, or coordinate operations and maintenance activities. Funding… Read More
Trout Unlimited and a list of partners have spent the past six years restoring the Ninemile Creek watershed from the mainstem up to the tributaries that provide quality habitat for spawning fish and other species. The work, intended to restore decades of mining and dredging that scoured gold off the bottom of what once was… Read More
Reprinted from the Island Free Press It’s deja vu all over again for Hatteras Inlet’s South Ferry Channel, much to the chagrin of the Dare County Waterways Commission. With a recent survey of the channel posted online during Monday’s remote meeting, Commission Chairman Steve “Creature” Coulter pointed to the red blotch – indicating shallow water… Read More
OCEAN CITY – At the north end of Ocean City’s Boardwalk, a small crowd gathered July 17 in the shadow of the Ocean City Beach Patrol headquarters to watch a beach be built. Federal beach replenishment projects have become routine in the city since the first one, in the 1990s, which drew far larger crowds… Read More
The Corps’ Dredge CURRITUCK is expected to be back in Ocean City for dredging operations starting later this week. The dredge is scheduled to work in the area for about a month, and will be removing material from in and around the channel, with an emphasis on the ebb and flood shoals in which sand… Read More
Memphis Engineer District Commander Col. Zachary Miller recently visited Island 68, a project site in Arkansas, where he met with the district’s Bank Grading Unit and reviewed progress made at the site thus far. According to Project Manager and River/Civil Engineer Cole Stonebrook, the USACE has done work here before as this area is particularly… Read More
Bisso Towboat Company Inc., Luling, La., has signed an agreement with Main Iron Works LLC, Houma, La., to begin construction of another new 6,008 BHP Tier 4 compliant, USCG-inspected ASD tractor tug. The tug will feature twin Caterpillar 3516E Tier 4F main propulsion engines generating 3,004 BHP each at 1,800 RPM. The engines will drive… Read More
BY OLIVIA CAMERON- For months, the sight of a barge has interrupted the endless ocean view from the south end of Boca Grande. Since February, a pile of equipment has been an unexplained puzzle to locals. Many island organizations were unsure of its sudden placement, but local fishermen have spent enough time on the water… Read More
Paul Rosenbohm routinely mixes lawn waste, food scraps and pumpkin residue from area farms for the Better Earth compost he markets throughout central Illinois. But he may have uncovered another ingredient for the mix: sediment from the Illinois River. While located nearby and virtually unlimited in quantity, the silt and sediment that’s been choking the… Read More
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced yesterday that she was able to include in the House’s Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA), the major water infrastructure bill, a provision that would help accelerate the cleanup of harmful sediments in and around the federal navigation channel in the Anacostia River. The provision… Read More