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The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Monday that the agency has awarded an emergency $1.7 million contract to repair damage to N.C. 12 on Ocracoke Island during a weeklong period of high tides and ocean overwash last month. The contract was awarded to Barnhill Contracting of Rocky Mount and includes placing sandbags on the… Read More
Just as Louisiana begins an ambitious slate of projects to rebuild its crumbling coastline, the essential ingredients — sea sand and river silt — will be harder to come by. That’s not because these materials are rare; the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River are loaded with the stuff. But the dredges needed to dig… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently resumed dredging at the Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal in East Chicago. Ohio-based contractor Kokosing Construction Co. and Illinois-based O’Brien and Gere plan to dredge about 150,000 to 200,000 cubic yards this fall, according to the Army Corps. “The navigation project consists of a harbor channel ranging in… Read More
Success of manmade erosion-control for beaches questioned in Ponte Vedra Beach The nor’easter that tore through St. Johns County on Sept. 20 produced more than just high winds and flash-flooding across the region. It caused severe erosion along the coastline, including Ponte Vedra Beach where as much as 4 feet of sand was lost or… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Crews from Florida-based company EarthBalance harvested enough beach vegetation cuttings last week in Emerald Isle to grow 300,000 plants that will be planted on dunes created next year in a major beach nourishment project along the town’s strand. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, which is responsible for… Read More
11 spots with highest PCB levels to get early action in $35.5 million project The Anacostia River, once dubbed the “forgotten river” because of centuries of abuse and neglect, is forgotten no longer. Its toxic-laced bottom is due for an initial cleanup expected to cost $35.5 million under a long-anticipated plan released Sept. 30 by… Read More
Patch loves photos! Share your photos with your local Patch, and your work could be featured. PETALUMA, CA — Patch reader Terri Satterfield sent in this photo of dredging taking place Oct. 2 on the Petaluma River. “The mighty Petaluma River dredging taken at the Foundry Wharf looking north with iPhone 7,” Terri wrote in… Read More
A federal judge in a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California vacated a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dredge and fill salt ponds in Redwood City, a town on the San Francisco Bay, as the AP reported. The judge in the case, William Alsup, determined on Monday that… Read More
WELLFLEET — The sight of the grab dredger working the federal channel in Wellfleet Harbor was a welcome one for Al Kraft. The Wellfleet resident owns a 31-foot center console, and there are days he can’t get his boat out of its slip. The harbor has become so filled with silt that for two hours… Read More
For the first time in 12 years, the Mansfield Channel at Port Mansfield is being dredged. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is performing the long-overdue project that will dredge the entire 12.9 mile channel to a depth of 17 feet. Port Director Ron Mills tells the Valley Morning Star that both commercial and recreational… Read More
Southampton Town is exploring a multimillion-dollar concept to improve water quality in Shinnecock Bay through a 2,200-foot underwater pipe beneath Dune Road that would pump ocean water to flush out the waterways. The state Office of General Services and the Department of Environmental Conservation have commissioned the Fairfax, Virginia-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry to study… Read More
With nearly two months left before the hurricane season of 2020 ends Nov. 30, and the winter storm season waiting in the wings after that, most local beaches are in relatively good shape. Still, there remains work to be done. A federal beach replenishment project is set to begin in Ventnor, and in Ocean City,… Read More
A long-awaited project to improve the bulkheading surrounding the borough’s boat ramp area is underway – part of a larger project to improve the ramp to make it more usable for boaters, and deepen the channel that runs under the West Point Island Bridge. Lavallette officials partnered with the Ocean County Bridge Department to replace… Read More
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – A salvage operation is underway on the Mississippi River to remove a barge. Lance Engle, a dredging project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said a barge carrying cement mix sank in mid-January 2020. The barge company is required to remove the barge. However, work could not begin… Read More
The state is undertaking two “record-breaking” restoration projects aimed at reviving 7 square miles of coastal habitat and bolstering natural storm defenses east of New Orleans and near Venice in lower Plaquemines Parish. Long planned but now funded with $215 million from money BP set aside after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the projects amount… Read More