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The Cashman Dredging and Dutra Group JV reaches another milestone in Boston Harbor improvement project— full speed says Army Corps of Engineers— 10 million cubic yards of material moved. Cashman/Dutra joint venture is contracted by the Department of Defense performing essential work under the Governor’s Stay-at-home Advisory being able to continue dredging without delay despite… Read More
Celebrate #EarthDay2020 by taking a virtual flight to visit 10 of our coastal restoration projects across the state. https://lnkd.in/gGnUC6K Source: linkedin
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is prominently featured in a publication focusing on the eventful 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster, including “what’s been done and what’s been learned after one of our country’s worst environmental disasters.” We all remember the horrific accident that happened 10 years ago which killed… Read More
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Malibu homeowners banded together to address sea level rise. A decade later, they are at war with the city, the surfers, and each other JeffersonJefferson Wagner has struggled with more than one shark in his life, and he still carries the proof of his tete-a-tete with a Great White. When Malibu’s councilman and former mayor… Read More
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) One of the nation’s largest Superfund cleanup projects in history is down to its final few months. Dredging operations on the lower Fox River have resumed, for a 12th year, to remove cancer-causing PCB’s in river sediment. Started in 2009, the EPA says the total cost to clean-up decades of pollution… Read More
In 2019 Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe, Inc. (MDVP) was awarded a contract to increase the depth of the entrance of the channel at the South Benson Marina Channel in Fairfield, CT., due to shoaling. The project was challenging as the Town of Fairfield required the dredged material to be placed on Jennings Beach adjacent… Read More
Less than a month after arriving in New York City, the hospital ship USNS Comfort is to be redeployed. The ship was originally intended to give surge capacity to New York hospitals by treating non-COVID-19 patients. That capability was not needed. A phenomenon seen by doctors across the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic is that… Read More
As the nation’s environmental engineer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages one of the largest federal environmental missions – constructing sustainable facilities; regulating waterways; managing natural resources; cleaning up contaminated sites from past military activities; and restoring degraded ecosystems. Through the implementation of 33 ecosystem restoration and protection projects totaling over 4,200 acres and… Read More
Sea level rise and intensifying storms are speeding up erosion of Rhode Island’s coast. Homes, businesses and residents are at risk in unprecedented ways. Communities are wrestling with a daunting question: when is it time to retreat from the sea. In South Kingstown, that’s a question that threatens the core identity of the town. (Note:… Read More
Global design firm Stantec has been selected to lead the environmental permitting and assessment for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project in New York. A joint venture of Ørsted and the U.S. Eversource Energy is developing the project approximately 30 miles east of Montauk Point, off Long Island. “This is an exciting project that, when… Read More
PORTLAND — The City Council last week approved a $20 million federal grant application to fund a long-awaited dredging of sections of Portland Harbor. The $20 million Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development grant would pay for roughly two-thirds of the $30 million project, which will “provide safe and full tide access to berthing, loading… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public input this afternoon on whether to continue allowing commercial dredging along the Missouri River. Commercial dredging is a process companies use to collect sand and gravel from rivers and then use those materials for concrete, asphalt and masonry products. Six companies, including Holliday Sand & Gravel… Read More
By Dan Ginolfi On this episode of the WaterLog Podcast, Howard & Dan talk about the Corps’ recent internal announcement to account for all NED, RED and OSE in benefit cost analyses, an update from Congress and insight on the next hurricane season. Source: WaterLog Podcast
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has awarded $19.6 million in discretionary grants to 24 U.S. small shipyards through the Small Shipyard Grant Program. The funding is aimed at helping modernize America’s small shipyards, making them more efficient in constructing commercial vessels by investing in emerging technologies and highly-skilled workforce. Projects under the… Read More
The National Park Service has published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for sediment management at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The purpose of the EIS is to develop a streamlined framework for implementing sediment management at the Seashore, including the method, location, and frequency for sediment management actions… Read More