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Over the past several decades, the federal and state government have spent an estimated $1.5 billion to pump more sand on New Jersey beaches to widen them. In at least one spot along the Jersey Shore, they are spending millions of dollars now to take that sand off the beach. News 12 was in Monmouth… Read More
The Interstate Island Avian Habitat Restoration Project is listed as one of the many Areas of Concern (AOC) projects within the Great Lakes. Interstate Island is a small parcel of land located within the Duluth-Superior Harbor along the St. Louis River Estuary. Due to rising water levels, the island has shrunk in size by half… Read More
LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN — As the wind whipped across the top of the Big Sable Point lighthouse, one of the most famous and beloved on the Great Lakes, Jim Gallie pointed to the disappearing beach: “It’s been progressively getting worse.” Every few seconds, a wave slammed into the breakwall protecting the base of the lighthouse, sending… Read More
The state of Maryland is kicking off an exploration of the sediment impacted behind Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River and how that clay, silt and sand — mixed with various forms of debris and pollution — might be reused. A $1.5 million study of the characteristics of the sediment behind the dam is the… Read More
But state gets no construction money in latest phase of funding While Louisiana will not receive any construction money in the second phase of the latest RESTORE Act draft funding plan, the state is expected to get $1 million to fund various research and planning initiatives. In the first phase of awards, announced in February,… Read More
Lake Seminole is already experiencing new life now that a decade-long project is complete. It was 10 years ago that Pinellas County partnered with Southwest Florida Management District on a mission to improve water quality at the lake. It had become so run down with muck sucking the nutrients out of the water, that the… Read More
Winter project avoids impacting the tourist season Three weeks into the beach nourishment project in Bethany Beach and South Bethany, things are going smoothly, and the beaches are being built up. Beach replenishment is part of a federal plan to prevent coastal storm damage to property and infrastructure. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers periodically… Read More
The province has rejected Hamilton’s “do-nothing approach” to cleaning up a 24-billion-litre sewage spill and ordered the city to dredge pollution-ravaged Chedoke Creek. The Spectator revealed in November 2019 that an open sewer gate spilled 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of sewage into the west-end creek over four years. The province issued a cleanup order… Read More
The cost of dredging Cow Creek where it drains into Lake Huron is estimated at $750,000. Council will consider deferring the project to the 2021 budget at its meeting Monday. A group of citizens brought the matter to council’s attention, saying a sandbar has grown into a dangerous shoal, in the area just west of… Read More
The City of Redondo Beach has applied for permits to dredge King Harbor. If approved, this will be the third time the harbor has been dredged since 1988. As sediment moves naturally down the coast, it piles up at the breakwater, a porous wall of rocks. Gradually, material gets through, builds up in the harbor,… Read More
Resolve Marine has repositioned its Alaska-based response tug Makushin Bay from Dutch Harbor to Kodiak, where it will respond to a growing need to provide local vessel operators and owners with rapid response and cost efficiencies. Resolve Marine currently maintains vessels, assets (dry dock, barges, cranes), and services out of its Dutch Harbor location, where… Read More
NEW YORK – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 Administrator Pete Lopez, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, New York State Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, members of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group and other dignitaries marked the start of dredging operations in the upper portion of the Gowanus Canal… Read More
The project is expected to cost $366 million and will take four years to complete. On October 29, 2020, on the 8th Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Matthew W. Luzzatto announced the Atlantic Shorefront Project. This project will protect communities and… Read More
Two Ellicott® brand dredges were used in combination to help open the navigation channel into Grand Traverse Harbor in Michigan, a project that was completed in July 2020. The harbor was clogged with stamp sand, black and dark grey rock waste leftover from the historic processing of ore. During the 19th and 20th centuries, stamp… Read More
Flagler Beach residents still unsure of government project FLAGLER BEACH — While a few residents continue to hold out, the $25 million Flagler Beach dune restoration project deadline has been extended again, until April. Flagler Beach officials held a meeting Thursday to update the public on the status of the federally funded dune project. “I know… Read More