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In-depth tide data and benchmark verification project will take dozens of experts years to complete. Experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have embarked on a five-year scientific journey through America’s waterways. NOAA, along with several national and international partners, is updating the baselines used to measure water level heights and depths along… Read More
Barges are a common site on the Mississippi River, but not so much on the Missouri River. A group of lawmakers on the southern portion of the Missouri River want the Corps of Engineers to maintain the navigation channel as more businesses try to start navigation on the river. Republican lawmakers along the southern portion… Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment by Congressman John Garamendi (D-Calif.) to the “Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act” (H.R. 4447) that clarifies that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act applies to lease sales for non-fossil fuel energy sources such as wind power, hydrokinetic, or ocean thermal energy conversion. Congressman Garamendi says… Read More
Sand loss has been a long-term concern for St. Johns County Ervin and Jim Bullock’s stretch of Coastal Highway is the kind place where turtles like to build nests and conversation is punctuated by crashing waves. “We love to wake up in the morning, watch the sunrise, look at the dolphins. It’s wonderful,” Ervin Bullock… Read More
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas– The Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded an Option/additional work in the amount of $8,860,090 on Sept. 3, for additional areas of repair on the North Jetty under the Corpus Christi Ship Channel – Entrance Channel Jetty Repairs contract. This additional awarded work increased the jetty repair contract… Read More
SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – A major detail that was misinterpreted has put the Surfside Beach Pier restoration in jeopardy. During the Surfside Beach Town Council meeting on Tuesday, the interim town administrator informed leaders that the pier project must be completed by Oct. 10, 2020, to receive the over $9 million in grant money… Read More
Mud flows into the geopool of the City of Lorain Black River Dredge Reuse Facility on Aug. 20, 2020. The city is using a $4 million grant for a pilot project to see how the manmade lagoon filters sediment and water dredged from the bottom of the Black River. The dredge pipe that feeds sediment… Read More
It was a cold day in February 2020 when Gov. Andrew Cuomo, above speaking, announced a massive dredging project at North Sandy Pond. Cuomo was joined at the announcement event by local officials, including State Sen. Patty Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, at right. Next to Ritchie is Assemblyman Mark Walczak, R-Watertown, greeting Department of Environment Conservation Commissioner… Read More
Hurricane Isaias stormed up the east coast of the United States in early August, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 85 mph to the shores of flood-prone Port Monmouth, New Jersey. Immediately, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District reached out to the community to find out how they were doing and… Read More
In a memorandum to the Secretary of the Interior on September 25, President Donald Trump further extended the 10 year Atlantic area offshore leasing moratorium to include offshore North Carolina. You can access the memorandum HERE, and it bears close examination because the National Ocean Industry Association is warning that the announcement “casts tremendous uncertainty… Read More
In a memorandum to the Secretary of the Interior on September 25, President Donald Trump further extended the 10 year Atlantic area offshore leasing moratorium to include offshore North Carolina. You can access the memorandum HERE, and it bears close examination because the National Ocean Industry Association is warning that the announcement “casts tremendous uncertainty… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The Carteret County Beach Commission will receive its annual “State of the Beach” report from its beach engineering firm Monday when it meets at 2 p.m. in the Pine Knoll Shores Town Hall and on Zoom. The presentation by representatives from Moffatt & Nichol, the county’s beach engineering firm, will be… Read More
LANSING — State lawmakers are exploring a new task force aimed at combating flooding and soil erosion, a problem that Michigan has been experiencing most recently with Great Lakes water levels hitting record heights this past spring and summer. But flooding in Michigan isn’t a new problem, nor is it limited to the Great Lakes… Read More
Maine Department of Environmental Protection staff’s draft permit recommendations to the Board of Environmental Protection were released to the public a week ago. These recommendations dismiss the dewatering of at least 20,000 cubic yards of very fine sediments as “inconsequential.” Nordic’s and Cianbro’s proposed dumping of unspecified hundreds of thousands of gallons of water containing… Read More
CONCORD, Mass. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to repair the east and west jetties and wing walls of the Kennebunk River Federal Navigation Project (FNP) in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine. The towns of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport are the local sponsors for this project. The proposed work involves needed… Read More