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ATLANTIC — After months of work,theCarteret County portion of the large and complicated Atlantic Harbor improvement project is finished. Greg Rudolph, manager of the County Shore Protection Office, supervised the dredging to make the harbor more accessible, as well as the granite sill construction project around White Point, just offshore the harbor in Core Sound…. Read More
MENOMINEE, MI — A river that marks the border between Michigan and Wisconsin has been removed from a federal list of heavily polluted sites in Great Lakes waters, although it continues to have contamination issues with toxic fluorochemicals. Michigan and Wisconsin officials joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in announcing last week that the lower… Read More
DETROIT — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials report despite seasonal declines, Great Lakes water levels remain high as fall storms approach. “The Corps of Engineers urges anyone impacted by high water levels last fall to prepare for similar or worse impacts in the coming months,” Detroit District Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office Chief,… Read More
Sandwich Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham is asking three federal legislators to help secure an ongoing source of sand to beef up Sandwich’s eroded beach and, in turn, to save historic village areas from potentially devastating storm surges. “Under heightening climate change conditions, these continued erosional pressures have reached a critical stage that have… Read More
Georgia doesn’t have a very big coastline; it’s only about 100 miles. But the coast it does have is lined by salt marsh, the muddy expanse of tall grass and meandering creeks between the mainland and the barrier islands. “I don’t know that anybody could look out across the Georgia salt marsh, the Golden Isles,… Read More
Snake Island will close for 75 days, starting Monday, so the West Coast Inland Navigation District can dredge Lyons Bay and place sand and rock on the island at the end of Venice Inlet, which is a haven for area boaters. The project timeline would have boaters seeking other shores until it reopens in December…. Read More
The Port St. Joe Port Authority, through a host of board members and chairs, has been for nearly two decades a kind of hurry-up-and-wait proposition. The wait time may soon be shortened a tad. As Eastern Shipbuilding continues to prep its mill site bulkhead site for outfitting Staten Island ferries, the Port Authority is moving… Read More
FLAGLER BEACH — Flagler County commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved filing for eminent domain against one property owner in an effort to save the $25 million dune restoration project. “There’s an owner that owns two remnant parcels in the middle of the project that would prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from going forward,” said Al… Read More
Two properties with a single owner are holding up the multi-million dollar project designed to protect coastal areas from inundation during future storms. Flagler County will file suit to begin eminent domain proceedings for two beachfront properties whose owner has not agreed to allow a multi-million dollar beach renourishment project to proceed across the properties…. Read More
Environmental concerns limit the cleanup to litter, leaving driftwood in place. THUNDER BAY — The draining of Boulevard Lake for repairs to the dam has given the City of Thunder Bay a chance to do some cleaning up around the dry lakebed. Driftwood, though, will stay where it is. Parks & Open Spaces staff have… Read More
The potential dredging of Thunder Bay’s Boulevard Lake will go before city council on Monday, but the project itself would be a long-term one, city administration said Thursday. The idea of dredging the lake has been floated before, with a study being done in 2010. Monday, it will go before council as part of a… Read More
Concern over future projects The San Mateo County Harbor District is challenging a move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to redefine the terms for dredging off the Central California coast. NOAA oversees the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the stretch of protected waters from Marin County to San Luis Obispo. It is proposing… Read More
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced that it intends to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement on new oil and natural gas leasing in Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The planned 2021 lease sale would cover 1.09 million acres of federal submerged lands under Cook Inlet off Alaska’s south-central coast, Kallanish Energy reports. The… Read More
By Dr. Ram Mohan, Anchor QEA’s Principal Engineer and Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M July 23rd, 2020 Dredging and dredged material management in today’s regulatory environment can be both challenging and expensive, especially as traditional methods of dredged material placement become harder to design and construct. But there’s a silver lining to this problem:reusing dredged… Read More
The US Army Corp of Engineers asked the US Department of Justice to negotiate a settlement with North Dakota for more than $38 million the state spent on policing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The request follows a US District Court’s August decision to deny the federal government’s motion to dismiss North Dakota’s… Read More