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The ambitious project will help to protect the East Side community and provide new improvements to many parks. On April 15, 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major construction on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. The $1.45 billion project will extend flooding protections and improve open spaces. Neighborhoods that were heavily affected by Hurricane… Read More
Construction of a new inland port at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers in Cairo, Ill., has taken another step forward. The Alexander-Cairo Port District has completed a project labor agreement (PLA) with the Illinois AFL-CIO that ensures that more than 500 jobs created by the construction of the Cairo port will be… Read More
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WPMI) — Hurricane season is almost a month away. Last year, we told you that sand dunes, which are the first line of defense against hurricanes, were dwindling in Gulf Shores. City officials were hoping to have them re-nourished ahead of the season, but FEMA has yet to give them funding. Over… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — After almost exactly three months, the 9.4-mile-long Emerald Isle beach nourishment projected ended early Monday morning, with the exception of planting vegetation on new dunes, which is set to commence next week. The Liberty Island, one of two Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. vessels working on the project, delivered its last… Read More
Apr. 27—For Waikiki surfers and beachgoers who have felt constrained by sand being dredged from a barge offshore, piped onshore and heaped in a big gray pyramid covering much of Kuhio Beach, the end is in sight. Early Monday morning, workers began scooping truckloads of sand from the pile and hauling it along the shoreline… Read More
Earth Day Projects Part of Ongoing Horseshoe Crab Habitat Work NOTE: The Cape May County Herald is offering full coverage of the COVID-19 / coronavirus emergency to all, with no payment required. We are committed to ensuring our readers can make critical decisions for themselves and their families during this ongoing situation. To continue supporting… Read More
Increasingly shallow rivers in Argentina and Paraguay are making it harder to move soybeans and grains to market. The South American drought that’s helping push corn and soybean prices to multiyear highs isn’t just threatening crops, but also the ability to haul them on waterways that are drying up. On the increasingly shallow rivers that… Read More
A federal plan to shore up some of Collier County’s coastline against large tropical storms was met with opposition Tuesday during a public meeting. The Board of Collier Commissioners unanimously agreed to sign two non-binding letters of support for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s proposed $2.1 billion plan to provide coastal resiliency for parts… Read More
KALAMAZOO, MI — Thanks for dealing with the tip of the iceberg. Now, please do the rest. That’s the gist of a letter to Eagle Creek Renewable Energy from Sen. Sean McCann and Rep. Julie Rogers, both Democrats from Kalamazoo who wrote the company this month to press for additional dredging in the Kalamazoo River,… Read More
Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration press release: The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore completed dredging operations this week to create a second, 50-foot deep container berth at its Seagirt Marine Terminal. The project, accomplished as part of the public-private partnership between the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) and… Read More
A stall in anticipated federal funding has up to 45 of 181 flood-mitigation projects in Harris County at a funding deficit, including several projects in the Lake Houston area. At the March 9 Harris County Commissioners Court meeting, the Harris County Budget Management Department said projects from the $2.5 billion flood bond program in 2018… Read More
When developers at HYM Investment Group started planning a major urban redevelopment at the former Suffolk Downs racetrack near Boston Harbor, they knew they had to plan around water. The site is surrounded and even intersected by flood potentials—Sales Creek runs through the middle of the former racetrack, Chelsea Creek runs alongside it, there’s an… Read More
The project aims to restore and sustain eroding wetlands in and around Barataria Bay, an area that stretches roughly from southeastern Lafourche Parish to southwestern Plaquemines. NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser and the St. Bernard Parish Council have come out against the proposed $2 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. The officials called it a threat to commercial and recreational fishing, bottlenose… Read More
In a fact sheet released following last week’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate, the White House reaffirmed that “in support of global efforts to achieve net-zero GHG emissions no later than 2050, the United States is committing to work with countries in the International Maritime Organization to adopt a goal of achieving zero emissions from international… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — The Emerald Isle beach nourishment project is in the home stretch and could be complete by Monday, several days before the contractual deadline. “We have seen some incredible productivity the past few days and weeks and we could very well be completed on Monday, well before the April 30th regulatory deadline,” Greg… Read More