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For the first time in 12 years, the Mansfield Channel at Port Mansfield is being dredged. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is performing the long-overdue project that will dredge the entire 12.9 mile channel to a depth of 17 feet. Port Director Ron Mills tells the Valley Morning Star that both commercial and recreational… Read More
Southampton Town is exploring a multimillion-dollar concept to improve water quality in Shinnecock Bay through a 2,200-foot underwater pipe beneath Dune Road that would pump ocean water to flush out the waterways. The state Office of General Services and the Department of Environmental Conservation have commissioned the Fairfax, Virginia-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry to study… Read More
With nearly two months left before the hurricane season of 2020 ends Nov. 30, and the winter storm season waiting in the wings after that, most local beaches are in relatively good shape. Still, there remains work to be done. A federal beach replenishment project is set to begin in Ventnor, and in Ocean City,… Read More
A long-awaited project to improve the bulkheading surrounding the borough’s boat ramp area is underway – part of a larger project to improve the ramp to make it more usable for boaters, and deepen the channel that runs under the West Point Island Bridge. Lavallette officials partnered with the Ocean County Bridge Department to replace… Read More
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – A salvage operation is underway on the Mississippi River to remove a barge. Lance Engle, a dredging project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said a barge carrying cement mix sank in mid-January 2020. The barge company is required to remove the barge. However, work could not begin… Read More
The state is undertaking two “record-breaking” restoration projects aimed at reviving 7 square miles of coastal habitat and bolstering natural storm defenses east of New Orleans and near Venice in lower Plaquemines Parish. Long planned but now funded with $215 million from money BP set aside after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the projects amount… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is postponing a planned maintenance dredging of the Lake Worth Inlet until 2021, and instead will do an “emergency dredging” to address shoaling. The Corps had initially scheduled a return to the inlet for late 2020 to perform a maintenance dredging that would include the settling basins, an area… Read More
Six months after being replenished with offshore sand and despite recent storms, Midtown Beach and the surrounding coastline is “performing very well,” according to a report by Coastal Project Manager Rob Weber. Weber presented the current shoreline conditions report to the Shore Protection Board Thursday, with several before-and-after photos of replenished beaches. ” src=”https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/10/02/NPBD/d35940ce-e887-4ca3-bad7-83fa6fb6eeae-040220_PB_Renourish_4.JPG?width=660&height=475&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp” ]… Read More
2010-00750-45 Expiration date: 11/6/2020 The applicant proposes to perform hydraulic maintenance dredging to provide for the safe mooring and navigation of private vessels drafting 1.5 to 4 feet of water, within the All Seasons Marina, located at 551 Roosevelt Boulevard in Marmora, Upper Township, Cape May County, New Jersey. The dredged material (sediment) would be… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from allowing the dredging and filling of salt ponds near San Francisco without going through a permitting process that could stall redevelopment of the area. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the vast Redwood City ponds are “waters of… Read More
JENNINGS RANDOLPH LAKE, W.Va. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has installed a year-round early warning system at Jennings Randolph Lake intended to notify downstream public users of impending rapid increases in water levels, and to evacuate the river immediately to higher ground for their safety. “Public safety is the Army Corps’… Read More
There should be no offshore oil drilling along the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. Not ever. Period. The potential for harm far outweighs the benefits, which are questionable at best. That matter should be settled for good, so everyone concerned can move ahead. Coastal communities should know that while they must prepare for pressures… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — Bogue Banks’ economically crucial beaches are in good shape, thanks to millions of dollars spent on ongoing beach nourishment efforts, according to a report presented Monday to the Carteret County Beach Commission. Nicole VanderBeke with the county’s beach engineering firm, Moffatt & Nichol, presented the annual State of the Beach report… Read More
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District announced an upcoming periodic inspection at Tuttle Creek Lake, to include dewatering of the stilling basin below the dam. Preparations for the inspection begin October 9, 2020 with the closure of lake releases and subsequent lowering of River Pond for approximately three weeks…. Read More
Dredging began at Indiana Harbor yesterday and will continue through the fall of 2020, a continuation of the dredging that stopped in 2019 for the winter season. The contractors, a joint venture with Kokosing Construction Company, Ohio, and O’Brien and Gere, Illinois, will dredge approximately 150,000 to 200,000 cubic yards in 2020. The navigation project… Read More