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Copublished with Island Free Press OCRACOKE ISLAND — If navigational channels are akin to highways to this southernmost Outer Banks island, then dredges are its version of snow plows in the mountains. Both may be subject to whims of wind and weather, but with constant bureaucratic and funding hurdles, an operator can’t just pull a… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Carteret County Shore Protection Office Manager Greg Rudolph said Monday he was “stoked” after bids for the next beach nourishment project in Emerald Isle came in within budget and about $14 million below the high end of the cost estimate. The county opened the bids for phase three of the post-Hurricane Florence… Read More
CAPE CARTERET — Commissioners voted 4-1 Monday night to authorize Manager Zach Steffey to establish a process to address potential local financial participation in a county plan to dredge creeks and canals in town. Carteret County is planning to dredge the Old Ferry Channel in Bogue Sound between Cape Carteret and Emerald Isle and is… Read More
BROOKLINE and BOSTON– Brookline and Boston are pleased to announce that work on Phase 2 of the Muddy River Flood Risk Management project began this month. The project work will take place on Boston, Brookline and Commonwealth of Massachusetts land and stretch from Olmsted Park to the Back Bay Fens. Phase 2 is anticipated to… Read More
Two scientists, Jennifer Amaral and Monique LaFrance Bartley, recently presented their research on these questions and found that the seabeds are undergoing some interesting changes in the marine life gravitating toward that location. How are the five turbines of the Block Island Wind Farm impacting their immediate environment? Two scientists, Jennifer Amaral and Monique LaFrance… Read More
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Projects to involve marshlands, oysters, marine mammals Louisiana will spend $205 million in BP oil spill money for a variety of projects to help recover from the 2010 disaster. Executive Director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Bren Haase says $176 million will be used to build marshland in the upper Barataria Basin. “This… Read More
The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is planning emergency repairs on a damaged beach levee that has left Grand Isle exposed to storms during the height of hurricane season. The CPRA and the Army Corps of Engineers, which built the levee, have been at odds over which agency should lead and pay for the… Read More
Instead, the city’s plan have shifted to something simpler, though the wastewater treatment plant may need bigger solutions in generations to come because of sea level rise, City Manager John Regan said. The city hired Flood Risk America to provide waterproof barriers that will protect electrical components that keep the plant running and will protect… Read More
Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, has signed the St. George Harbor Improvement Chiefs Report. The proposed project increases safe accessibility of marine navigation to the community of St. George, Alaska. It is designed to reduce hazards to provide better safe navigation of subsistence vessels, fuel… Read More
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Federal EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the cleanup to remove cancer-causing chemicals from the lower Fox River and part of Green Bay is over after two decades. It was one of the largest Superfund sediment projects ever completed in the U.S., dredging 39 miles and more than 6.5 million cubic… Read More
MARINETTE (WLUK) — After decades of cleanup and millions and millions of dollars spent, the Lower Menominee River is no longer one of the most polluted spots on the Great Lakes. In a ceremony Tuesday morning, it was announced the waterway would be taken off the list next month. A ribbon of blue flows south… Read More
Two Rivers would love to tap into beach nourishment to enhance the Lake Michigan Shoreline. Beach nourishment is described as clean bottom lake sand brought up during the dredging process that would be allowed to be put back on or just off the shoreline. City Manager Greg Buckley says this would be highly beneficial to… Read More
The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the continental United States, weaves its way south from Maryland, collecting waters from West Virginia, Delaware, DC, Pennsylvania and New York along the way. Like many major ecosystems and watersheds, the Chesapeake Bay is being substantially changed by ongoing environmental crises. Now, researchers from the Virginia Institute of… Read More
The National Waterways Foundation (NWF) has commissioned and released waterways profiles for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. NWF worked with Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CSI) on the state waterways profiles using the National IMPLAN economic model to estimate the… Read More
ASHTABULA — The Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are seeking public comments for the proposed removal of a “beneficial use impairment” that restricts navigational dredging activities within the Ashtabula River Area of Concern. Beneficial use impairments identify specific problems that can prevent a body of water from reaching the best water… Read More