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The U.S. Coast Guard reported Friday that it had reopened the Intracoastal Waterway near Berwick, Louisiana, to vessel traffic after completion of salvage operations involving the rock barge, ACL 01700 which sank after a grounding on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Mile Marker 99 in Berwick, La. The barge was one of six being pushed… Read More
Images of green ooze flowing onto a Metro Detroit highway and homes sliding down the eroding shores of Lake Michigan speak to Michigan’s environmental pressures. So does a $69.5 million settlement negotiated with a corporate polluter to bring clean water to 1,000 homes north of Grand Rapids. Each of those examples form the foundations for… Read More
Walk out to the beach at the end of Ash Avenue and what do you find? If it is not high tide, you see huge ribbons of rocks ranging from pebbles to softball-sized and even larger. They fill this section of the beach, and require a detour to get around, or ninja-like care to walk… Read More
GLDD dredges Dodge Island and Padre Island are digging shoaled material from the entrance channels in Brunswick and Savannah, GA. This allows for the safe passage of commercial and recreational ship traffic in and out of the harbors. Photos by @odurdnk1868 (Instagram) #SAD#Diganddump#Itsjustmud#dredging#dredgelife#Savannah#Brunswick Source: linkedin.com
Japan has reportedly requested talks with South Korea over that country’s alleged subsidies to its shipbuilding industry. The talks would be held under the dispute settlement process of the World Trade Organization. Japan filed a complaint with the WTO over South Korean shipbuilding support practices back in November 2018. That led to talks between the… Read More
Looks can be deceiving–While our Massey’s Ditch team dredges along in a picturesque setting, our onsite engineer says roughly 18 billion gallons of water ebb and flow during tide changes…causing a really rough environment in such a shallow channel. Source: linkedin.com
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Cottrell Contracting began dredging the Norfolk Harbor Inner Channel and channel to Newport News in late December. The Norfolk District is managing the operations and maintenance project as part of an effort to remove shoaling, and expects the project to take five months to complete. The $10.4 million… Read More
GILCHRIST, Texas (AP) — The last fish are leaving Rollover Pass. Four months after the Texas General Land Office began filling in the popular fishing site with sand and dirt, the pass’ last residents are being targeted for removal. Crews from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department used nets to gather fish, crabs and other… Read More
GLDD’s Cutter Suction Dredge Carolina on location at the Port of Corpus Christi where we are digging this shipping channel deeper to allow large vessels to access the Port of Corpus Christi. This is Phase 1 of a multiphase project to deepen the Corpus Christi channel to 58’. To understand the scale of the shipping… Read More
NYSERDA’s Petition to Procure At Least Another 1,000 MWs of Offshore Wind Kickstarting round two of New York State’s nation-leading support of offshore wind projects through the purchase of Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Credits (ORECs), on January 28, 2020, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) filed a petition with the New… Read More
This post has been updated to clarify where USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) was built. The destroyer was constructed at Bath Iron Works, Maine. After more than two years of repairs, guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) left the Mississippi coast for sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, Navy officials announced on Monday. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will start its annual Lake Pepin ice measurements Feb. 12. What has become one of the first signs of spring, the Corps takes ice measurements on Lake Pepin annually to forecast the navigational outlook. The Lake Pepin ice thickness is measured because… Read More
MUSKEGON, MI – Two months after a cadre of lawmakers asked for an emergency declaration due to shoreline erosion, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office has declined to take action. There are several reasons for the inaction, according to administration and emergency management officials. Counties have not exhausted their own resources; the threat is more to private… Read More
NOAA supports resilient coastal communities and healthy, sustainable fisheries in Louisiana through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act Program. ByNOAA Office of Habitat Conservation Section: Federal Region: Gulf of Mexico Two NOAA-sponsored habitat restoration projects in Louisiana have been approved for $30 million in funding in 2020 by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection,… Read More
The Coast Guard was yesterday responding to a report of a towing vessel that ran aground on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at mile marker 99, near Berwick, La. Watchstanders at Vessel Traffic Service Berwick Bay received a report at approximately 10 p.m., Sunday, that the towing vessel Miss Odessa, pushing six hopper barges filled with… Read More