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As part of its continued effort to help educate audiences about the inland waterways’ connection to agriculture, to the labor community, to freight shippers, to the Corps of Engineers, and to building communities, Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) has produced a series of short videos. The agriculture-focused video features comments by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny… Read More
The city of Sanibel and the firm that it hired have completed the extent and details of the emergency shore protection project located south of Blind Pass, running adjacent to Sanibel-Captiva Road. “We have finalized the design,” Natural Resources Director James Evans said on July 2. The week before, he reported that staff and Humiston… Read More
North Carolina – Oak Island, Caswell Beach, and Holden Beach could join in a collaborative study of beachfront erosion, making use of recently-approved federal funds available in a disaster relief act. BRUNSWICK COUNTY — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is asking three Brunswick County beach towns to team up in future beach renourishment and… Read More
Schedule changed to accommodate lobstering, spawning fish The long-awaited dredging of the Annisquam River now is expected to extend into a second season to accommodate the removal of more material, protect the river’s winter flounder habitat and reduce interaction with lobstermen and lobster gear during the disposal of dredged material, according to the U.S. Army… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is accepting public comments for the proposed dredging at Bird River and Railroad Creek. The work would include dredging 26,630 linear feet of the main channel to widths of 30 to 90 feet and to depths of 5 feet to -4 feet MLW. Dredging of 48 spur… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is requesting public comments on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed South San Diego Harbor dredging project in San Diego, California. The Corps, as part of its operations and maintenance program, is proposing to perform maintenance dredging in South San Diego Harbor Federal Channel… Read More
A crew out of Virginia wrapped up their work on the Jekyll Creek dredging process June 24, so the curious-looking dredge and associated equipment seen around the north end of Jekyll Island will be gone before too long. At the Jekyll Island Authority board meeting June 18, JIA Conservation Director Ben Carswell said the team… Read More
Councillor says that on Canada Day, children could be seen walking out in knee deep water in the bay during the fireworks… The Muskoka River needs to be dredged near the falls and its mouth, but who is responsible? Bracebridge Councillor Steve Clement says he’s heard from quite a few residents recently who want to… Read More
by CHRIS ROGERS It has been a strange and difficult year on the Mississippi River. The same flood waters that have made key stretches of the river impassable for barge traffic for much of this year also dumped prodigious amounts of sand and sediment in the main channel. Now, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)… Read More
Contractors for Trout Unlimited and federal agencies cooperating on a project to restore fisheries habitat in the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River disturbed groundwater and released fine clay sediments into the stream on June 26. That created a muddy plume of water which flowed down the Yankee Fork into the Main Salmon River where… Read More
MANCHESTER — A paperwork processing delay has pushed the Singing Beach revetment repair project to the fall. T. Ford Company, Inc., the construction company hired for the FEMA-funded project, is expected to pull its equipment from the worksite sometime this week and return in September. The announcement was made via an update from selectmen on… Read More
Nantucket is a resilient community. Historically, we have weathered many storms and come back; the great fire of 1846, the end of the whaling industry, and countless hurricanes, a sewer main break. Predicted sea level rise, erosion, shifting sands, and other climate changerelated impacts are now testing the island’s resiliency in ways never imagined. Not… Read More
Camden — A proposal by Lyman Morse to send dredge spoils to the Mid Coast Solid Waste transfer station to assist with sealing off the landfill, in exchange for a discounted dumping fee, will not move forward. Joshua Moore, of Lyman Morse, was invited to speak to the MCSW Board at its regular monthly meeting… Read More
BATON ROUGE – Today, Gov. Edwards signed the 2019 capital outlay bill that provides nearly $1.5 billion in new funding for critical construction and infrastructure improvement projects throughout the state. The governor also exercised his constitutional authority and issued six line-item vetoes in the legislation. “From road and highway construction to education and coastal restoration… Read More
The failed Sesuit Creek restoration project provides a sobering reminder of what can go wrong with a Cape Cod salt marsh restoration. Not only did the project produce serious and costly downstream sedimentation problems, but it also degraded upstream wetlands. In 2008, the “Sesuit Creek-Bridge Street Habitat Restoration Project” replaced a collapsing culvert with two… Read More