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BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – The narrow passage between Oak Island and Holden Beach is even more narrow than usual as sediment buildup has left Lockwood Folly Inlet at critically-shallow depths. According to the Feb. 3 survey by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a majority of the inlet is less than six feet deep… Read More
BATON ROUGE — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that the RESTORE Council has voted to approve $130 million in Deepwater Horizon oil spill dollars to fund the River Reintroduction into the Maurepas Swamp project, a major win for the state’s coastal program. Administered by Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), the project will… Read More
The old Charleston Naval Shipyard will be brought back into substantial military service again as the Coast Guard announces plans to add more boats, buildings and bodies to make it one of the branch’s largest bases in the nation. Adm. Karl Schultz said the branch plans to homeport five national security cutters and a group… Read More
Stantec is leading a design team for a U.S. $165-million project to rebuild and raise the existing wharf and esplanade on the waterfront at Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park to protect the area from rising high tides resulting from climate change. The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Battery project will span one third of a mile of… Read More
A federal beach-replenishment project near Mar-a-Lago is dredging up some bad feelings on Fire Island. Two post-Sandy beach-replacement projects are being halted so crews and dredges can be moved to a so-called “emergency” beach project less than a mile from President Trump’s Palm Beach resort. “Our houses will wash away,” fumed Karen Kee, president of… Read More
Oregon denies a key permit for the controversial Jordan Cove liquified gas project, saying it would have significant adverse effects on the state’s coastal economy. (The Oregonian) Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and Development said Wednesday that a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal in Coos Bay would have significant adverse effects on the state’s… Read More
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, announced last week specific projects supported by funding for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works programs that benefit Louisiana. Funding for local and area projects include: $28.2 million will go to maintaining flood-risk features of the Old River… Read More
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that some of the claims raised by South Carolina in a lawsuit against the Trump administration over seismic tests for oil and gas deposits in Atlantic waters may proceed, but dismissed four others. Coastal states and environmental groups have taken legal steps to try to block Trump administration efforts… Read More
GALETON — The project to dredge the Galeton lake is still underway. Borough Secretary Annie Caracciolo advised the borough council at the Feb. 12 general session that a meeting with the engineering firm, to continue the project’s efforts, is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 25. “We’re getting the ball rolling on that,” borough President… Read More
atlantic beach — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got off to a fast start this week, as sand was piped to and spread from the Circle development district to the 300 block of Ocean Ridge Road as of Friday morning. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said the… Read More
FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo, University of New Hampshire scientists monitor the health of seagrass in the Great Bay in Durham, N.H. Federal officials got an earful of complaints Wednesday night, Feb. 19, 2020, from scores of New Hampshire communities over a plan to further reduce nitrogen in one of the… Read More
Congressman Fred Upton and colleague Bill Huizenga are celebrating a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to include funding in the fiscal year 2020 budget to dredge Holland Harbor. The budget at first did not include the dredging funds, but Upton tells WSJM News he and Huizenga were able to convince the Corps the work… Read More
The Falmouth Marine & Environmental Services Department this month is dredging river and pond channels from Salt Pond to Little Pond with an excavator rented from the Plymouth County government that has an extra-long reach. “The excavator more efficiently removes a greater extent of sand from our clogged channels. This is a cooperative effort between… Read More
U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins and Mark Wingate, deputy district engineer for Programs and Project Management for the Corps’ New Orleans division, held a press conference on Thursday to announce findings from a study done by the Corps on how much dredging the Vermilion River would cost and how effective it would be for residents, according… Read More