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DECATUR — The boats are back in the waters of Lake Decatur this Memorial Day weekend, with owners ready to enjoy the fruits of a multiyear dredging project and hear music from the new Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater drifting across the waves. While some aspects of a long-term plan to transform the lakefront have cruised ahead… Read More
Hurricane Harvey dumped 51 inches of rain on the Houston area, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and left $125 billion in damage. In its aftermath, it was hard to think of anything but making sure that kind of catastrophic flooding didn’t happen again. But as we rightfully pay attention to flooding, we must also… Read More
A proposal for a regional response to erosion partially caused by sea level rise (SLR) in Hawaii was introduced to the public on March 8 in the form of an Environmental Impact Statement Preparation Notice (EISPN) “Kahana Bay Erosion Mitigation Project Lahaina District, Island of Maui” with a 30-day public response period. Property owners at… Read More
The ongoing deepening of the Charleston Harbor isn’t just letting bigger container ships into port: The work will also allow more salt water to creep up the Ashley and Cooper rivers. The $558 million project to deepen the navigational channel to 52 feet will give South Carolina’s largest port the deepest shipping lines on the… Read More
OXFORD — For the last two summers, campers and other visitors at F.W. Kent Park were met with an empty lake and closed beach during an ongoing restoration project. For a park that attracts a lot of families, that meant fewer patrons the past two years, said Sherry Frantz, who serves as camp host at… Read More
Word spread quickly about the $3.3 million dredging project. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — People who live and work in Tarpon Springs celebrated after they found out a multi-million dollar dredging project that had been put on hold is back on again. Word spread quickly about the $3.3 million dredging project. It had been put on… Read More
The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway reopens after workers for the Army Corps of Engineers opened a temporary channel in Aberdeen. Speech to Text for Tenn-Tom Waterway reopens Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. clear and open for use again,… Read More
Adding more sand to 10 miles of the beach in Nags Head will take a little longer than expected and is now scheduled to be finished in September. Pumping by the dredge Ellis Island is done at the south end of town and bulldozers are wrapping up work near the the Cape Hatteras National Seashore…. Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency will take the first major steps this summer to clean up wastewater flowing from dozens of old mines at a Superfund site in southwestern Colorado, officials said. The work includes dredging contaminated sediment from streams and ponds, diverting water away from tainted mine waste piles and covering contaminated soil at campgrounds…. Read More
The ongoing deepening of the Charleston Harbor isn’t just letting bigger container ships into port: The work will also allow more salt water to creep up the Ashley and Cooper rivers. The $558 million project to deepen the navigational channel to 52 feet will give South Carolina’s largest port the deepest shipping lines on the… Read More
MONTEREY — A massive plan to temporarily halt beach erosion from undercutting a number of structures in Monterey and surrounding areas was advanced Tuesday by the Monterey City Council. Over the next 50 years portions of coastal dunes of southern Monterey Bay are predicted to erode at a rate of between 1 foot and 6… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The Carteret County Beach Commission voted unanimously Monday afternoon to proceed toward a nourishment project that could put 2.6 million cubic yards of sand on the beach in Pine Knoll Shores, central and western Emerald Isle, Salter Path and western Atlantic Beach by the end of next spring, if not earlier…. Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. (Office of the Governor) – For the second time in recent years, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has been named a national winner for Best Restored Beaches from the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA). CPRA’s Caminada Headland Beach and Dune Restoration project restored more than 13 miles… Read More
Delray Beach, Florida moves forward with beach renourishment. The city of Delray Beach is investing in its beaches. Since March, a research vessel was looking for sand on the ocean floor to use for beach renourishment. The city contracted APTIM from Boca Raton to help with the project. The environmental engineering company spent weeks on… Read More
Full funding for Everglades restoration projects is almost a reality. On Tuesday, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved the federal Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, which allocates $200 million in federal funds to fully match the state’s funding of the project. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the bipartisan Florida congressional delegation were instrumental in… Read More