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SANTA BARBARA—The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission was briefed on several significant happenings at their Feb. 20 meeting. Items on the agenda included a briefing about discussions for a possible navy ship visit to the harbor, fuel dock renovations and dredging. Possible Navy Ship Visit New Waterfront Director Mike Wiltshire delivered a report on a recent… Read More
Susan Layton Chief, Planning and Policy Branch Norfolk District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The purpose of this presentation is to provide details and receive feedback on the Tentatively Selected Plan for the Florida Keys Coastal Storm Risk Management Study. The study just recently passed the Tentatively Selected Plan milestone and a Draft Feasibility Report… Read More
The maritime industry has been deeply affected as a result of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus and its impacts to Chinese manufacturing and logistics services. Ocean carriers have been forced to cancel services (“blanked sailings”) to and from China and the United States. The Federal Maritime Commission has been monitoring levels of blanked sailings… Read More
HOLDEN, Mass. – We were standing on the banks of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the real Mississippi River is halfway across the continent. We were in fact in the huge warehouse-sized laboratories above the Louisiana River Basin Scale, which was shocking to restore the scale to 1/65, right… Read More
DOVER — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District announced Monday the dredging plan for the Delaware Bay will be submitted to Congress for authorization. The recommendations call dredging sand from the bay to construct a dune and berm system at Bowers Beach, South Bowers Beach, Slaughter Beach, Prime Hook Beach and Lewes Beach… Read More
Insurance remains the primary tool for managing climate-related risk. But for how long? Despite indications that real estate asset managers and investors have begun taking steps to manage climate uncertainties more proactively, as reported in the Climate Risk and Real Estate Investment Decision-Making report from ULI and Heitman, interviews conducted with leading industry figures over… Read More
The Johnson County Fiscal Court and the City of Paintsville, along with The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), held a public meeting in the Johnson Central High School gymnasium during the evening of Tuesday, March 3 concerning the upcoming Section 202 Johnson County Flood Risk Management Project. USACE staff presented an overview of their… Read More
A submerged breakwater system proposed to lessen beach erosion in South Carolina won’t pop up offshore anytime soon. No one is sure of their exact design or where they would have to go to be effective. Or what such devices would do to the environment up and down the coast. They don’t know how deep… Read More
This Jan. 16, 2020 photo shows the end of the Ventnor, N.J. boardwalk as seen from Margate, N.J., where a group of residents wants the city to build its own boardwalk. Proponents of building the boardwalk along the beach in Margate, are accusing the city of using “fear tactics” by claiming a walkway would make… Read More
Volunteers planted about a thousand bald cypress trees in the Barataria Basin near Lafitte last week in a bid to reduce coastal erosion. The $20,000 project was a partnership between Jefferson Parish and Jefferson Beautification Inc., a nonprofit focused on tree planting, and was funded by discretionary money from the office of Parish Council District… Read More
The latest beach renourishment plan for Lido Key Beach still doesn’t have a start date, but officials say they know what is needed to protect the shore for the next five years. The 2.6-mile-long beach, owned by the city of Sarasota, last had a renourishment in April 2019. A larger scale replacement of sand is… Read More
When will Bathtub Reef Beach re-open? The answer is blowin’ in the wind. “We’ve got to wait until the wind and the water calm down before we re-open,” said Martin County Coastal Engineer Kathy FitzPatrick. “We want to have a beach that’s usable and that we can guarantee to stay open a while.” The county… Read More
WORCESTER CO., Md. – An important dredging project is happening off Maryland’s coast in order to help restore Ocean City’s beaches and the Assateague seashore. The Army Corps of Engineers arrived at the Ocean City inlet last week to start the annual project. Officials say the replenishment for the National Park is needed because of… Read More
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) today to introduce new legislation to overhaul the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) process for managing water resource projects along the lower Missouri River system. The Lower Missouri River Flood Prevention Program Act is cosponsored by all of the senators from the lower… Read More
J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. (Brennan) recently won a contract with AECOM Energy and Construction (AECOM) for remediation work on LaGrange Lock and Dam on the Illinois River. The contract required us to partake in major gate and concrete rehab while supplying wireless internet access not only to our own Brennan office trailers, but also to… Read More