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PETALUMA, Calif. – The North Bay is getting a popular waterway back. Beginning Friday night, and for three weeks non-stop, the Petaluma River is being dredged. It’s the first time in 20 years and 13 years overdue. “We get to celebrate something in the midst of the wildfires and the pandemic,” said an ecstatic Rep…. Read More
After nearly 20 years of cleanup, the lower Fox River is now nearly clear of industrial contaminants that pose risks to human and animal health, Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday. Evers appeared via Zoom to announce the end of the cleanup to remove PCBs from the river — a process that involved removing sediment, filtering… Read More
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Old Dominion University was recently awarded a $775,000 grant from the Department of Defense to continue research efforts on offshore wind technology along the Virginia coast. “This award comes at a time when a coordinated approach for all things maritime is more important than ever,” Old Dominion President John R. Broderick… Read More
Norfolk Southern Railway recently completed a sustainability project to reclaim a “living shoreline” along an industrial stretch of the Elizabeth River in Virginia. The project transformed a stretch of the severely eroded shoreline at the railroad’s Lamberts Point terminal into a green oasis in an area where ship repair and port businesses operate. The effort… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing $2 billion in upgrades to the levee system along the Mississippi River from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, with the majority of the projects aimed at shoring up protections for areas in Louisiana around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The work, which is still in the planning… Read More
While on location with a project in Charleston Harbor, SC, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock was able to lend a helping hand to a local environmental organization. A local Charleston non-profit environmental organization, Wounded Nature, performs derelict vessel removal and other environmental clean-up services of the waterways around Charleston. Wounded Nature personnel/volunteers are primarily military… Read More
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the health of the nation’s largest estuary is continuing to improve. But it says Pennsylvania still isn’t doing enough to reduce the amount of pollution that’s flowing into the bay from the state. The Maryland-based nonprofit released a report on Thursday that assesses the progress of… Read More
Every day, Pittsburgh District is faced with the task of using limited resources to remain good stewards of our region’s infrastructure. Tuesday, Aug. 4, was no different. On that day a multidisciplinary team converged on Allegheny Lock and Dam 4 (AR4) to investigate potential concerns with erosion of the river bed, also referred to as… Read More
The work started last Thursday and should be done by the end of September. The last time Cheesequake Creek was dredged was in 1989. OLD BRIDGE, NJ — The dredging of Cheesequake Creek began last Thursday, Aug. 27 and the project will last until the end of September — assuming there are no weather delays… Read More
TOPSAIL ISLAND – Each of the towns along Topsail Island have different challenges and needs when it comes to protecting their shoreline, but their meeting Thursday with congressional leaders was about one island. “It was a great dialogue,” said North Topsail Beach Mayor Joann McDermon. “All three towns work well together and we were all… Read More
In July, the North Carolina Ferry System announced that they were temporarily reducing service on the Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel just outside of Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The latest survey at that time by the Army Corps of Engineers showed water… Read More
The answer is in a legal document from the 1970s that no one can find.The Mesabi Miner pulled into Duluth Harbor on Tuesday as a bulldozer pushed dirt along Park Point as part of an effort to raise the beachfront.Over the past two years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dredged up tens of… Read More
Maryland’s Public Service Commission has approved Danish wind-power company Ørsted’s proposed use of 12-megawatt turbines off the Ocean City, Md., coast for its planned Skipjack wind farm. The use of GE Haliade-X 12-megawatt wind turbines in the project was the subject of a public hearing in January in Ocean City. Ørsted had requested the change… Read More
Equipment, including bulldozers, sand separators and long runs of pipes, line the beach near 26th Street North, facing south in Bradenton Beach. The construction is part of a $17 million renourishment project that brings sand from offshore to replenish beaches and prevent further erosion. Beach renourishment is expected to run through October and will end… Read More
VICTORIA—B.C.’s central coast, including the Great Bear Rainforest, are the focus of a partnership aimed at ridding shorelines or marine debris. The Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative Fund (CCCW) helps small ship tour operators, Indigenous Nations, local communities and others participate in a $3.5-million cleanup of the shores of the central coast. “This funding will… Read More