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At their regular meeting on Wednesday, May 13, the Barnstable County Commissioners discussed creating a new position to manage the county’s municipal dredge program. The county dredge provides dredging services to municipalities throughout the region. This year an outside consultant was brought in to help chart the future of the program, which has at times… Read More
At their regular meeting on Wednesday, May 13, the Barnstable County Commissioners discussed creating a new position to manage the county’s municipal dredge program. The county dredge provides dredging services to municipalities throughout the region. This year an outside consultant was brought in to help chart the future of the program, which has at times… Read More
Despite facing budgetary shortfalls due to the pandemic-caused economic shutdown, the Crescent City City Council couldn’t pass up a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity and voted to move forward funding a bank stabilization project along Pebble Beach Drive. City Manager Eric Wier explained December 2016 storms caused significant erosion along Pebble Beach Drive from Preston Island to Sixth… Read More
Despite facing budgetary shortfalls due to the pandemic-caused economic shutdown, the Crescent City City Council couldn’t pass up a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity and voted to move forward funding a bank stabilization project along Pebble Beach Drive. City Manager Eric Wier explained December 2016 storms caused significant erosion along Pebble Beach Drive from Preston Island to Sixth… Read More
The yellow numbers and arrows at the bottom of this graphic indicate the areas and amounts of sand in cubic yards tentatively planned for nourishment of Emerald Isle beaches in phase three of the county’s post-Hurricane Florence project on Bogue Banks. At the top are geographic descriptions of the areas. EMERALD ISLE — Phase three… Read More
The yellow numbers and arrows at the bottom of this graphic indicate the areas and amounts of sand in cubic yards tentatively planned for nourishment of Emerald Isle beaches in phase three of the county’s post-Hurricane Florence project on Bogue Banks. At the top are geographic descriptions of the areas. EMERALD ISLE — Phase three… Read More
The dredge is back and is expected to finish what it started by the middle of next week. In late February, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer led-project started its efforts to dredge out East Pass and make it safer for boaters to navigate, but at the same time use the sand to restore the… Read More
The dredge is back and is expected to finish what it started by the middle of next week. In late February, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer led-project started its efforts to dredge out East Pass and make it safer for boaters to navigate, but at the same time use the sand to restore the… Read More
ATLANTIC — Work on the dredging portion of the Atlantic Harbor improvement project wrapped up this week, according to Carteret County Shore Protection Office Manager Greg Rudolph. Despite several periods of windy, stormy weather since contractor T.D. Eure of Beaufort began work in mid-April, “everything progressed nicely,” Mr. Rudolph said this week. As a result,… Read More
ATLANTIC — Work on the dredging portion of the Atlantic Harbor improvement project wrapped up this week, according to Carteret County Shore Protection Office Manager Greg Rudolph. Despite several periods of windy, stormy weather since contractor T.D. Eure of Beaufort began work in mid-April, “everything progressed nicely,” Mr. Rudolph said this week. As a result,… Read More
Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, on May 7 signed the New Haven Harbor Navigation Improvement Project Chief’s Report. The existing New Haven Harbor deep draft ship channel, turning basin, and maneuvering area are currently authorized at a depth of -35 feet at mean lower low… Read More
AIS spoofing, painting over ships’ IMO numbers and names, and “flag hopping” are just a few of the tricks of the sanctions-busting trade. Yesterday, the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, and the U.S. Coast Guard issued a global advisory to alert the maritime industry, and those active in the energy and metals sectors, to… Read More
Bulldozers work in early April to spread wet sand spewing ashore in eastern Pine Knoll Shores from the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. vessel Liberty Island, just offshore. The effort was part of the second phase of an ongoing Bogue Banks nourishment effort. EMERALD ISLE — The Carteret County Beach Commission is scheduled to… Read More
Visitors to the Grand Haven State Park may see a pipe on the beach as river dredging has started in the area. Approximately 55,000 cubic yards of sand is being removed from the mouth of the channel and deposited onto the Grand Haven State Park beach, helping replace some of the sand that has been… Read More
Lobster fishers in Malpeque Harbour will have to start the season from another port or wait until a dredge can clear a safe path for them through the harbour’s shallow channel. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has informed the Malpeque Habour working group the channel will not be open for setting day… Read More