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When a proposal to build a giant sea wall to protect the region from the next Superstorm Sandy was unveiled in 2018, it was met with strong opposition by environmentalists and some local officials, who said it would destroy the ecology of North Jersey’s tidal rivers and redirect a potentially devastating storm surge to the… Read More
Commitment Demonstrates New Jersey’s Leadership on Offshore Wind TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today announced the offshore wind solicitation schedule to meet the 7,500 megawatt (MW) offshore wind goal by 2035 and called upon the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to take all necessary actions to implement the schedule. These projects will deliver the… Read More
FONTANA – With the Abbey Marina filling quickly with sand and requiring costly annual dredging, the harbor is seeking long-term solutions with the village to address the rapid sedimentation. Along with heavy rainfalls that have affected Fontana in recent years, a storm water system constructed near the Big Foot Country Club by the village about… Read More
Dredging at the Popponesset approach channel began earlier this week after high winds and rough waters delayed the annual project, which was supposed to begin February 10. Kenneth H. Bates, chairman of the Mashpee Waterways Commission, said the Barnstable County dredge was in place and pumping sand onto the beach on Tuesday and Wednesday. High… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project pushed west from Atlantic Beach into Pine Knoll Shores Thursday, beginning the longest stretch of work in the project. The town’s 4-plus miles of beach are to receive 990,000 cubic yards of sand, about half of the 2 million cubic yards in the… Read More
SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. Massey’s Ditch was last dredged in 2002. Mariners say the waterway had become unsafe and that boats often ran aground, especially at low tide. The 100 foot wide channel is on schedule to be dredged by the end of this week. “It had a lot of very shallow areas,” says J.F. Brennan… Read More
Members of the Bring the Battleship to Baytown Committee have a little longer to submit its proposal to the Texas Battleship Foundation. The deadline has been moved to April 10. The original deadline was March 13. “We all got an extension based off of someone else making a request,” Calvin Mundinger, a committee member, said…. Read More
Loudon officials are still eyeing big things for the Steekee Creek dredging project. The city last year was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to pay for dredging to create a marina. “The ARC was formed to help bring economic prosperity to Appalachia, and we are in Appalachia,” Ty Ross, Loudon city… Read More
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — Myrtle Beach City Council proposed an amendment Tuesday to Senate bill 869, or the Beach Preservation Trust Act, which would provide state funding to municipal and local governments for beach renourishment projects. The funds would go toward the restoration of eroded public beaches and the enhancement of public beach access,… Read More
Syracuse, N.Y. — Opponents of a proposed beach on Onondaga Lake say the lake may still be too contaminated to allow people to swim there. Lindsay Speer, a member of A Better Future for Onondaga Lake, said the proposed beach area at Willow Bay, at the lake’s northern tip, hasn’t done properly tested for toxic… Read More
Phase III of Governor’s Resiliency & Economic Development Initiative Dredging Project Begins With Engagement of Regional Dredging Management Planning Council Organizers Regional Dredging Management Planning Council to Synchronize Ongoing State and Local Dredging Efforts and Local Maintenance Dredging Plan in the Future State Launches New Coastal Lakeshore Economy and Resiliency Initiative to Help Flood-prone Communities… Read More
Federal project will pump sand to build up dunes and beach protecting businesses, commercial dock and parkland. After storms battered the East End of Long Island this fall, destroying dunes along Dune Road in Hampton Bays, causing flooding, and what officials called a near breaching of the barrier island just west of Shinnecock Inlet, a… Read More
Army Corps gives no reason for cut after Trump says it would be ‘foolish’ to build massive barrier between Sandy Hook and Point Breeze, NY The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed yesterday that it has lost federal funding for two studies on ways to prevent rising seas and bigger storms from devastating the New… Read More
Despite proposed budget cuts and rising seas, the Corp’s beach-building efforts on the Shore are stronger than ever On a mild, clear February morning in Sea Bright, the Jersey Shore’s northernmost oceanfront borough, Jason Shea stood on the community’s towering seawall looking satisfied with the view before him. Just to the south, contractors were nearing… Read More
During the boating season, Hampden harbormaster Peter Neal is used to seeing a few vessels that have run aground in the channel between the town’s public boat launch and the Penobscot River. Now, the town is eyeing a couple different improvements to its small marina, which is next to the privately owned Hamlin’s Marina. Those… Read More