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Grain transportation came to a screeching halt for weeks after onslaughts of record flooding and round after round of severe storms slammed the nation’s heartland in March. The region is finally getting enough of a break from Mother Nature to let barges resume movement up and down the Mississippi River and its tributaries, from the… Read More
House Passes Energy & Water Appropriations Bill The House version of the bill includes $7.36 billion for the Corps of Engineers, and increase of $357 million from FY19 enacted and $2.53 billion above the president’s request. The majority of the bill language is status-quo for coastal projects, and we can expect some more muscle from… Read More
Carteret County, N.C. — Along the coast of North Carolina, there is a science project targeted at turning back time. The project by the North Carolina Coastal Federation aims to reclaim 6,000 farm acres back into marshland. “Everybody wants to gather a little closer,” said Bree Charron. “ We planted more than a million trees.”… Read More
By Donald Wittkowski Ocean City is lining up the funding for a series of road, drainage and dredging projects that will get underway in the fall. City Council introduced a $9 million bond ordinance Thursday night that includes $4.2 million to rebuild roads and alleys, $1.8 million for drainage improvements and $3 million for dredging…. Read More
By Maddy Vitale Bob Woolery, a married father of two, is raising his children in the same way as he grew up, in Ocean City and on the bay. Woolery, a dentist whose favorite hobby is boating, enjoys all that comes with living in the quiet Gardens section of town He and his wife, Brigid,… Read More
Off the coast of the Duluth-Superior industrial port, at the foot of the St. Louis River, lies Howards Bay — Lake Superior’s largest U.S. tributary. And the Howards Bay Remediation Project is targeting the removal of more than a century of industrial pollutants left on the bay’s bottom. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wisconsin Department… Read More
Hopper dredger Liberty Island has returned to Nags Head and is hard at work nourishing the beach in the vicinity of the submerged pipeline near the Epstein public beach. According to the town officials, now the dredger is back the construction will progress north over the next 10 days or so to tie into the… Read More
ENCINITAS — Encinitas officials Tuesday announced the completion of the Cardiff State Beach Living Shoreline Project, making it the second beach in the city that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Work began last October to restore a half-mile stretch of sand dunes that has historically been damaged by storms and flooding. The… Read More
Local officials and state and federal agencies continue to push forward efforts to dredge the West Fork of the San Jacinto River to increase capacity in the Lake Houston watershed and reduce flooding. The Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District was recently directed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to extend its current dredging project… Read More
Grand River at Allendale Township on Monday, April 8, 2019. A group named Grand River Waterway wants to dredge a 23-mile stretch of the river – between Grand Rapids and the Bass River Inlet near Eastmanville in Ottawa County. The dredging would make the Grand River accessible to power boaters looking to travel from Grand… Read More
A new study suggests protection and adaptation against the rising sea levels could cost Louisiana $38 billion or more by 2040. The study, produced by the Center for Climate Integrity, projects that the state will spend the second most in the nation for adapting public infrastructure and installing protection, behind only Florida. The study estimates… Read More
U.S. coastal communities provide recreation and a laid-back lifestyle for those lucky enough to be able to live in such close proximity to the water, and the flow of tourists sustains small businesses that set up shop there. But all of this goes away if rising sea levels put these areas under water. And according… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which handles much of the maintenance on waterways in the country, has not included Holland Harbor in its initial budget for fiscal year 2020. USACE funds are used to pay for maintenance projects, as well as dredging the harbor to keep its intended width and depth. Dredging is the… Read More
A grant from the Alabama Power Foundation will assist in ongoing restoration efforts at Bayou La Batre’s Lightning Point. Alabama Power Mobile Division Vice President Nick Sellers delivered a grant from the Alabama Power Foundation to the Nature Conservancy to use in its restoration and conservation efforts in Lightning Point at Bayou La Batre. (contributed)… Read More
EASTHAM — Shellfish, sediments, fish and toxic algae will all be surveyed and studied in Nauset Harbor this summer and fall as Orleans and Eastham reached a consensus to proceed with preliminary work on a dredging plan to keep Nauset Harbor open. The towns’ two boards of selectmen met on Monday at the Eastham library…. Read More