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The Port of Virginia has been awarded a $15,500,197 federal grant through the highly competitive Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) transportation discretionary grants process. The U.S. Department of Transportation is investing in surface transportation infrastructure through the BUILD program. Grant applicants vied for a total of $1.5 billion in discretionary grant funding for… Read More
A big, mucky project got underway this week: six different shipping channels leading to the Port of Baltimore are being dredged to allow ships to safely come and go. The dredging effort, which is being managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, is expected to move a total of 2 million cubic… Read More
The Childs River restoration project in Mashpee and Falmouth is one of 12 river and wetland initiatives across the commonwealth to be designated Priority Projects through the Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration. The Baker-Polito Administration announced the designations on December 6. The designation enables Priority Projects to become eligible for technical… Read More
The Centre and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed a $60 million Loan Agreement in New Delhi to reduce floods and riverbank erosion in Assam. The objective of the agreement is to continue financing riverbank protection works, renovation of flood embankments, and community-based flood risk management activities in critically flood-prone areas along the… Read More
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC) to clarify its position on the need for prior environment clearance for inland waterway projects including the marquee Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) along the river Ganga on national waterway 1 between Haldia and Allahabad. The principal bench of… Read More
When Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., were preparing for their upcoming deployment to the Middle East, they faced an unusual challenge: the beach they needed to train on had been washed away by Hurricane Florence. Using bulldozers and other equipment, they moved enough sand to rebuild a portion of Onslow Beach so Marines could practice… Read More
Dozens of boats and more than 100 workers are trying to clean up and contain an oil spill in Plaquemines Parish. We know nearly 5,000 gallons of oil and water has been collected, but there’s still plenty more work to be done. “It’s a big spill,” said Plaquemines Parish Director of Homeland Security and Emergency… Read More
Bourne officials are gearing up for the coming budget season, in which they will determine the proposed town budget for the coming fiscal year. Town departments accordingly have started to make their requests to the capital outlay committee, which estimates total capital requests this year at roughly $6.7 million. The committee met December 3. Members… Read More
Virginia is experiencing some of the highest rates of sea level rise in the nation and has suffered a 250 percent increase in federally declared disasters over the last 20 years. The commonwealth’s coastal and riparian communities are becoming more and more vulnerable to flooding and storm damage exacerbated by climate change. The good news… Read More
The Hudson River has been the dumping ground for over 1.3 million pounds of Polychlorinated Biphenyls. The PCBs were a waste product from General Electric’s manufacturing process for transformers that were not properly disposed of. These PCBs have been in our river since the late 1940s and their levels only increased until 1974. They were… Read More
Michael Drake has been living next to Severns Bayou on the north end of Longboat Key for more than 20 years. Drake, president of the Longboat Key Historical Society, wouldn’t have it any other way. “I just love it,” said Drake, who frequently takes his kayak down to the water where it is waist high…. Read More
The long-awaited gift of sand from Bourne to Sandwich will be delivered on Monday morning, December 17—just in time for the holidays. “Christmas is coming early to Town Neck Beach,” said David J. DeConto, director of natural resources, who is coordinating the delivery. Town Neck Beach’s parking lot will be closed for about a week… Read More
Port Otago is looking to double its dredging efficiency with the purchase and delivery of a barge worth more than $1.5million, which was towed from Auckland to Dunedin this week. Port Otago marine and infrastructure manager Sean Bolt said the second-hand TR Healy would work with the dredge Hapuka, one on either side of the… Read More
The much-anticipated One Lake Project is being panned by state transportation officials, in large part, because they don’t have enough information to support it. The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) recently issued a letter to the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District that decries One Lake, citing its potential impact on nine bridges… Read More
The first mainline vessel called on the Dakshin Bharat Gateway Container Terminal of the V.O.C. Port here on Wednesday. Recently, capital dredging was carried out at the port by increasing the draft of the berth from 12.8 m to 14 m. Officials said handling of mainline vessels would reduce expenditure by $50 per container, as… Read More