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Work on the Municipal Lake is expected to go well into next year. BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Work continues behind the scenes for Bryan’s $100 million Travis Bryan Midtown Park. Excavation has started as crews deepen and improve the municipal lake. Decades ago it was polluted with arsenic after industrial pollution further upstream that spanned… Read More
Property owners at the southern end of Litchfield Beach will return to the sea in search of sand for a renourishment project, abandoning plans to haul inland sand by truck. State and federal agencies are taking public comments on the third version of a permit application by the Peninsula Property Owners Association to place up… Read More
Two water-based projects are currently underway on the island: dredging in Old Harbor and the sea2shore cable reburial project at Fred Benson Town Beach. First Warden Ken Lacoste provided insight into the two projects during a Town Council meeting on Monday, Oct. 5. The cable reburial project, undertaken by National Grid and Ørsted, will be… Read More
By Andy Long The Navy plans to do a second round of dredging at a 1.2-acre site off the north end of Gould Island after a previous effort failed to sufficiently mitigate toxins in the sediment. Testing after the dredging in 2017 showed unacceptable levels of toxins, which could enter the food chain through shellfish…. Read More
U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) on Oct. 7 joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler in announcing a $694,000 federal Great Lakes restoration grant awarded to the Ohio EPA and reviewed the removal of the final restrictions on dredging activities at the Ashtabula River Area of Concern (AOC). “I was proud to join Administrator… Read More
Sunset Beach has resubmitted permit applications to state and federal agencies after finding a new proposed location to put the sand the town hopes to have pumped from surrounding waterways. The town earlier this week turned in modified dredge permit applications to the N.C. Division of Coastal Management and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, asking… Read More
The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Monday that the agency has awarded an emergency $1.7 million contract to repair damage to N.C. 12 on Ocracoke Island during a weeklong period of high tides and ocean overwash last month. The contract was awarded to Barnhill Contracting of Rocky Mount and includes placing sandbags on the… Read More
Just as Louisiana begins an ambitious slate of projects to rebuild its crumbling coastline, the essential ingredients — sea sand and river silt — will be harder to come by. That’s not because these materials are rare; the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River are loaded with the stuff. But the dredges needed to dig… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently resumed dredging at the Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal in East Chicago. Ohio-based contractor Kokosing Construction Co. and Illinois-based O’Brien and Gere plan to dredge about 150,000 to 200,000 cubic yards this fall, according to the Army Corps. “The navigation project consists of a harbor channel ranging in… Read More
Success of manmade erosion-control for beaches questioned in Ponte Vedra Beach The nor’easter that tore through St. Johns County on Sept. 20 produced more than just high winds and flash-flooding across the region. It caused severe erosion along the coastline, including Ponte Vedra Beach where as much as 4 feet of sand was lost or… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Crews from Florida-based company EarthBalance harvested enough beach vegetation cuttings last week in Emerald Isle to grow 300,000 plants that will be planted on dunes created next year in a major beach nourishment project along the town’s strand. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, which is responsible for… Read More
11 spots with highest PCB levels to get early action in $35.5 million project The Anacostia River, once dubbed the “forgotten river” because of centuries of abuse and neglect, is forgotten no longer. Its toxic-laced bottom is due for an initial cleanup expected to cost $35.5 million under a long-anticipated plan released Sept. 30 by… Read More
Patch loves photos! Share your photos with your local Patch, and your work could be featured. PETALUMA, CA — Patch reader Terri Satterfield sent in this photo of dredging taking place Oct. 2 on the Petaluma River. “The mighty Petaluma River dredging taken at the Foundry Wharf looking north with iPhone 7,” Terri wrote in… Read More
A federal judge in a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California vacated a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dredge and fill salt ponds in Redwood City, a town on the San Francisco Bay, as the AP reported. The judge in the case, William Alsup, determined on Monday that… Read More
WELLFLEET — The sight of the grab dredger working the federal channel in Wellfleet Harbor was a welcome one for Al Kraft. The Wellfleet resident owns a 31-foot center console, and there are days he can’t get his boat out of its slip. The harbor has become so filled with silt that for two hours… Read More