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With an $11.65 million cost estimate, county begins next steps for the Gulf Harbors and Hudson channel projects. NEW PORT RICHEY — Pasco county commissioners nudged their coastal dredging project forward on Monday, sending it to the next phase of design and funding exploration for the Gulf Harbors and Hudson channel projects. County officials hope… Read More
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has paid $253,300 in penalties to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for violating the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. The violations… Read More
The Alabama River flows some 318 miles through the richest agricultural and timber districts in the state, and has long been known as a sportsman’s paradise where boaters and anglers alike spend long lazy summer days enjoying its smooth waters and scenic bluffs. But the river’s true recreational safety and capacity is being hindered by… Read More
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District prepared a draft integrated feasibility report and environmental assessment for proposed improvements to the Lowell Creek flood diversion project in Seward. The tentatively selected plan recommends the construction of a new flood diversion system. It is available for public review and to… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled two virtual public meetings on its environmental assessment of a $2 billion plan to elevate levees and build stronger floodwalls along the Mississippi River from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, with most of the projects planned for areas in Louisiana around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The… Read More
The Kansas City District is currently performing multiple tasks to address priority areas of concern and the damages to river structures that have accumulated during the nearly three years of high water. The district is using all available resources to include a combination of contractors, including one for emergency dredging, and our in-house floating plant… Read More
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Todd Young (R-IN) and Gary Peters (D-MI) are introducing the Great Lakes Winter Commerce Act, bipartisan legislation that will codify the U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaking mission on the Great Lakes and increase the icebreaking capacity of the Great Lakes fleet. Icebreaking is critical for commerce in the Great Lakes and… Read More
For months now there have been indications that a major rethink of the Navy’s future fleet priorities has been underway – and that it could have far reaching implications for shipbuilders. Yesterday in a wide-ranging address at RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. , Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper gave some insights into what’s… Read More
A challenge to efforts by the town of Pawleys Island to condemn easements on three oceanfront lots for beach renourishment can move forward, a Circuit Court judge has ruled. But Judge Ben Culbertson told the property owners who are seeking to block the condemnation that even if they win their suits, the town can try… Read More
Project Will Clear Navigation Channel For Boaters And Restore Lost Shoreline For Birds And Beachgoers Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the start of dredging at North Sandy Pond in the Oswego County town of Sandy Creek as part of the State’s $15 million REDI Regional Dredging Project. The initiative is addressing a backlog of… Read More
Tuckerton Borough Council has listened to many complaints from some residents of Tuckerton Beach on the slow response to requests to dredge their lagoons. After the borough’s attempt to get a water quality grant from the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection to do the dredging with bonding from the Infrastructure Trust Bank was denied, the… Read More
A trio of New Jersey legislators who have promoted offshore wind energy development have called for suspending state approval of Ørsted’s Ocean Wind project, alleging the company has so far “failed to deliver” on its promises of new jobs and economic development in the state. In a Sept. 9 letter to state utility regulators, New… Read More
Another round of dredging along a stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway through New Jersey is underway. The Barnegat Bay Dredging Company is currently conducing dredging in a federal channel between markers 386 and 397 west of Avalon and Stone Harbor in Cape May County, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District news… Read More
Eastern North Carolina — Ferry service to and from Ocracoke Island will soon increase, according to officials with the North Carolina Ferry System. The reason is due to dredging that will take place in the Pamlico Sound. In July, the North Carolina Ferry System announced that they were temporarily reducing service on the Pamlico Sound… Read More
CAPE CARTERET — Town commissioners voted 4-1 Monday night to adopt a budget amendment to fund Cape Carteret’s share of a county-led project to dredge a silted arm of Deer Creek. The action came during the panel’s monthly meeting conducted via GoToMeeting. Commissioner Mike King was the lone opposition to the amendment, which funds a… Read More