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The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing $2 billion in upgrades to the levee system along the Mississippi River from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, with the majority of the projects aimed at shoring up protections for areas in Louisiana around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The work, which is still in the planning… Read More
While on location with a project in Charleston Harbor, SC, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock was able to lend a helping hand to a local environmental organization. A local Charleston non-profit environmental organization, Wounded Nature, performs derelict vessel removal and other environmental clean-up services of the waterways around Charleston. Wounded Nature personnel/volunteers are primarily military… Read More
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the health of the nation’s largest estuary is continuing to improve. But it says Pennsylvania still isn’t doing enough to reduce the amount of pollution that’s flowing into the bay from the state. The Maryland-based nonprofit released a report on Thursday that assesses the progress of… Read More
Every day, Pittsburgh District is faced with the task of using limited resources to remain good stewards of our region’s infrastructure. Tuesday, Aug. 4, was no different. On that day a multidisciplinary team converged on Allegheny Lock and Dam 4 (AR4) to investigate potential concerns with erosion of the river bed, also referred to as… Read More
The work started last Thursday and should be done by the end of September. The last time Cheesequake Creek was dredged was in 1989. OLD BRIDGE, NJ — The dredging of Cheesequake Creek began last Thursday, Aug. 27 and the project will last until the end of September — assuming there are no weather delays… Read More
TOPSAIL ISLAND – Each of the towns along Topsail Island have different challenges and needs when it comes to protecting their shoreline, but their meeting Thursday with congressional leaders was about one island. “It was a great dialogue,” said North Topsail Beach Mayor Joann McDermon. “All three towns work well together and we were all… Read More
In July, the North Carolina Ferry System announced that they were temporarily reducing service on the Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel just outside of Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The latest survey at that time by the Army Corps of Engineers showed water… Read More
The answer is in a legal document from the 1970s that no one can find.The Mesabi Miner pulled into Duluth Harbor on Tuesday as a bulldozer pushed dirt along Park Point as part of an effort to raise the beachfront.Over the past two years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dredged up tens of… Read More
Maryland’s Public Service Commission has approved Danish wind-power company Ørsted’s proposed use of 12-megawatt turbines off the Ocean City, Md., coast for its planned Skipjack wind farm. The use of GE Haliade-X 12-megawatt wind turbines in the project was the subject of a public hearing in January in Ocean City. Ørsted had requested the change… Read More
Equipment, including bulldozers, sand separators and long runs of pipes, line the beach near 26th Street North, facing south in Bradenton Beach. The construction is part of a $17 million renourishment project that brings sand from offshore to replenish beaches and prevent further erosion. Beach renourishment is expected to run through October and will end… Read More
VICTORIA—B.C.’s central coast, including the Great Bear Rainforest, are the focus of a partnership aimed at ridding shorelines or marine debris. The Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative Fund (CCCW) helps small ship tour operators, Indigenous Nations, local communities and others participate in a $3.5-million cleanup of the shores of the central coast. “This funding will… Read More
State Fish and Wildlife plans massive restoration at underwater park Residents have until Wednesday to comment on a proposal for restoring Franks Tract, a 3,000-acre flooded island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, to marshlands. A public draft of the proposal identifies three optional concepts for restoring the tract. Leaving the tract in its current state… Read More
Pacific Northwest Waterways Association (PNWA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, and the U.S. Coast Guard had a “First Stone” Event at J.E. McAmis’ Mouth of the Columbia River South Jetty Project yesterday. Senator Wyden, Congresswoman Herrera-Beutler, Congresswoman Bonamici, CAPT Smith – USCG Sector Columbia River Commander, and COL Mike Helton – USACE… Read More
As the COVID-19 recession trudges on, governments looking for economic recovery are embracing clean energy’s potential to create near-term jobs and long-term growth – especially when pairing economic recovery goals with climate goals. New York State, among the hardest hit by COVID-19, has doubled down on its climate commitments, announcing America’s largest-ever combined renewable energy… Read More
Planning, engineering & design to take three years A long-anticipated project to beef up beaches in Solana Beach and Encinitas with sand delivered at five- and 10-year intervals for 50 years just got a little closer. Solana Beach approved an agreement last week with Encinitas and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the pre-construction… Read More