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ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking public input on its draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for a proposed island project near Hastings, Minnesota. The Corps is planning to construct a protective island near the Lock and Dam 2 upstream embankment to prevent erosion. The island would reduce… Read More
A comprehensive offshore wind supply chain assessment and gap analysis is set to be undertaken in Massachusetts in support of the growing offshore wind industry in and around the state. Xodus Group announced on 12 October that it will, together with BW Research Partnership and in coordination with Greentree Consulting and the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension… Read More
WELLFLEET — The long-awaited dredging project of Wellfleet Harbor has started. It’s the first major dredge of the harbor in 57 years, Select Board Vice-Chairman and Dredging Task Force liaison Janet Reinhart said. “If it wasn’t for COVID, we’d have a huge party down there and people would get out buckets and start digging,” Reinhart… Read More
There are protests outside Town Hall. A lawsuit has stymied plans for future beach renourishment. The long-time town clerk has resigned. Yet officials on Pawleys Island are moving forward on a list of projects that emerged from a strategic planning session this summer and the 10-year update of the town’s comprehensive plan. Town Council expects… Read More
The Department of Ecology announced up to $22 million will be distributed to 21 high priority projects located in 16 watersheds across the state. Among these will be $148,500 designated for the Phase I Feasibility Study to address the Quinault Indian Nation TransAlta Water Right Acquisition. According to DOE, the funding will support projects to… Read More
Dominion Energy’s two massive wind turbines loom large off of Virginia Beach’s coast. You can’t see them from the Oceanfront, but at more than 600 feet tall, they would eclipse the state’s tallest building, the 508-feet Westin Virginia Beach Town Center. Together, those two turbines, churning along with three 253-foot blades apiece, represent a key… Read More
Work on the Municipal Lake is expected to go well into next year. BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Work continues behind the scenes for Bryan’s $100 million Travis Bryan Midtown Park. Excavation has started as crews deepen and improve the municipal lake. Decades ago it was polluted with arsenic after industrial pollution further upstream that spanned… Read More
Property owners at the southern end of Litchfield Beach will return to the sea in search of sand for a renourishment project, abandoning plans to haul inland sand by truck. State and federal agencies are taking public comments on the third version of a permit application by the Peninsula Property Owners Association to place up… Read More
Two water-based projects are currently underway on the island: dredging in Old Harbor and the sea2shore cable reburial project at Fred Benson Town Beach. First Warden Ken Lacoste provided insight into the two projects during a Town Council meeting on Monday, Oct. 5. The cable reburial project, undertaken by National Grid and Ørsted, will be… Read More
By Andy Long The Navy plans to do a second round of dredging at a 1.2-acre site off the north end of Gould Island after a previous effort failed to sufficiently mitigate toxins in the sediment. Testing after the dredging in 2017 showed unacceptable levels of toxins, which could enter the food chain through shellfish…. Read More
U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) on Oct. 7 joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler in announcing a $694,000 federal Great Lakes restoration grant awarded to the Ohio EPA and reviewed the removal of the final restrictions on dredging activities at the Ashtabula River Area of Concern (AOC). “I was proud to join Administrator… Read More
Sunset Beach has resubmitted permit applications to state and federal agencies after finding a new proposed location to put the sand the town hopes to have pumped from surrounding waterways. The town earlier this week turned in modified dredge permit applications to the N.C. Division of Coastal Management and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, asking… Read More
The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Monday that the agency has awarded an emergency $1.7 million contract to repair damage to N.C. 12 on Ocracoke Island during a weeklong period of high tides and ocean overwash last month. The contract was awarded to Barnhill Contracting of Rocky Mount and includes placing sandbags on the… Read More
Just as Louisiana begins an ambitious slate of projects to rebuild its crumbling coastline, the essential ingredients — sea sand and river silt — will be harder to come by. That’s not because these materials are rare; the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River are loaded with the stuff. But the dredges needed to dig… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently resumed dredging at the Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal in East Chicago. Ohio-based contractor Kokosing Construction Co. and Illinois-based O’Brien and Gere plan to dredge about 150,000 to 200,000 cubic yards this fall, according to the Army Corps. “The navigation project consists of a harbor channel ranging in… Read More