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Hurricane Isaias stormed up the east coast of the United States in early August, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 85 mph to the shores of flood-prone Port Monmouth, New Jersey. Immediately, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District reached out to the community to find out how they were doing and… Read More
In a memorandum to the Secretary of the Interior on September 25, President Donald Trump further extended the 10 year Atlantic area offshore leasing moratorium to include offshore North Carolina. You can access the memorandum HERE, and it bears close examination because the National Ocean Industry Association is warning that the announcement “casts tremendous uncertainty… Read More
In a memorandum to the Secretary of the Interior on September 25, President Donald Trump further extended the 10 year Atlantic area offshore leasing moratorium to include offshore North Carolina. You can access the memorandum HERE, and it bears close examination because the National Ocean Industry Association is warning that the announcement “casts tremendous uncertainty… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The Carteret County Beach Commission will receive its annual “State of the Beach” report from its beach engineering firm Monday when it meets at 2 p.m. in the Pine Knoll Shores Town Hall and on Zoom. The presentation by representatives from Moffatt & Nichol, the county’s beach engineering firm, will be… Read More
LANSING — State lawmakers are exploring a new task force aimed at combating flooding and soil erosion, a problem that Michigan has been experiencing most recently with Great Lakes water levels hitting record heights this past spring and summer. But flooding in Michigan isn’t a new problem, nor is it limited to the Great Lakes… Read More
Maine Department of Environmental Protection staff’s draft permit recommendations to the Board of Environmental Protection were released to the public a week ago. These recommendations dismiss the dewatering of at least 20,000 cubic yards of very fine sediments as “inconsequential.” Nordic’s and Cianbro’s proposed dumping of unspecified hundreds of thousands of gallons of water containing… Read More
CONCORD, Mass. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to repair the east and west jetties and wing walls of the Kennebunk River Federal Navigation Project (FNP) in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine. The towns of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport are the local sponsors for this project. The proposed work involves needed… Read More
The start of the deepening project in the Lower Mississippi River is big news for river commerce. It will bring the working depths of the LMR up to par with depths in the recently deepened and expanded Panama Canal and Suez Canal. By allowing bigger vessels, including those able to transit the expanded Panama Canal,… Read More
The Corps of Engineers New Orleans District launched the first phase of its Lower Mississippi River ship channel deepening project on Sept. 11. The project will deepen the ship channel from 45 feet to 50 feet. The launch of the project follows the July 31 signing of an agreement between the Corps and the state… Read More
PADUCAH — It’s back to the beginning for the city of Paducah as leaders have to come up with a new dredging plan to get rid of the growing landmass by the transient boat dock along the Ohio River. The city applied for a dredging permit earlier in the year, but the Kentucky Division of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District has completed construction for the final phase of the Fort Sheridan Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) project at Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve in unincorporated Lake County, Illinois. Phase 2 included the placement of underwater living reef structures near shore along the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve… Read More
Some residents who live along the river say it doesn’t take a hurricane to cause problems when it comes to flooding. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Could economic growth have an environmental cost? That’s what a new report by a group called Flood Trends says about the St. Johns River dredging project. In Riverside, people are concerned… Read More
Florida’s efforts to bounce back from disaster could get a boost with the launch of a new interdisciplinary program at Florida International University’s Institute of Environment. The institute’s new Environmental Finance and Risk Management program is focused on increasing resilience against the major environmental challenges identified in the state’s mitigation action plan: coastal erosion, ecosystem… Read More
Navarre Beach lost an estimated 100 million cubic yards of sand during Hurricane Sally, and officials are racing to tally the full extent of the damage to secure as much funding as possible to restore the beach. The sand loss is the worst at the easternmost and westernmost points of the beach, officials said. There,… Read More
JUPITER — The Jupiter Inlet’s remarkably shallow depth has not improved since mid-summer. Instead, authorities warn that the center of the waterway is even shallower than it was a few months ago. Depths are as low as three feet over the inlet’s sand trap, down from a previous estimate of eight feet, the U.S. Coast… Read More