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While the calculated economic costs to the entire nation is expected to peak at $416 billion, Florida’s regions are heavily represented in the report’s pages. MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – The provocatively titled report High Tide Tax was released Thursday by the Center for Climate Integrity and claims Florida will have to spend $74 billion in… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrapping up Gasparilla Island Beach nourishment project Excavators were seen driving off island Thursday morning, June 20, as the beach renourishment program is wrapping up. The extra beach isn’t as obvious at the Historic District access points … but my, oh my, is it ever noticeable at the old fishing… Read More
Note: This essay is part of a Rutgers University project in which faculty experts weigh-in on how action driven by science, policy, engineering and planning could future-proof the Garden State. To read more about Rutgers’ work on this issue, visit impact.rutgers.edu/the-rising-tide. In New Jersey’s effort to adapt to rising sea levels, we are facing infrastructure… Read More
Coastal Property Guide advises against the use of hard rock to protect shoreline. This story is part of a CBC News series entitled In Our Backyard, which looks at the effects climate change is having in Canada, from extreme weather events to how it’s reshaping our economy. When the UPEI Climate Lab first started using… Read More
Building walls to hold off sea rise — for just the next 20 years — would cost South Carolina’s coastal and estuary communities nearly $20 billion. Charleston alone would face more than $1 billion in costs. Those are the jolting conclusions from a Center for Climate Integrity study released Thursday. Coastal communities around the country… Read More
Putting up walls to protect the seven cities from rising sea levels would cost the region more than $4.6 billion, according to a nationwide study released Thursday. The Center for Climate Integrity, a project of the nonprofit Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, released estimates of how much it would cost to build seawalls in… Read More
CLEVELAND — Tomorrow marks 50 years since the Cuyahoga River last caught fire and in doing so, captured the attention of a nation. Well truth be told, it wasn’t the June 22, 1969 fire that caught the eye of America but rather one 17 years earlier in 1952. That was the fire TIME Magazine ran… Read More
As the federal government considers a network of steel surge barriers to limit flooding in waters from Fire Island Inlet to the Throgs Neck Bridge, planners are working to reduce the chance that one region’s barrier could leave others in deeper water. In the past four months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working with… Read More
Resident David Barnes – armed with photos – detailed shoaling problems on the Rogue River Wednesday for Curry County commissioners. He said at least a dozen boats had been stuck on a shoal across the mouth of the Rogue River inlet. The photos showed what Barnes called almost complete blockages at the entrance to the… Read More
The Bourne Conservation Commission after a 90-minute standing room only hearing on Thursday night at Town Hall unanimously approved a comprehensive dredging/disposal permit that will expedite and guide preparation for channel improvement projects across the next decade. The approval includes myriad local conditions as well as those demanded by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries… Read More
The future of former Driftwood Resort land again went before Crow Wing County officials, but this time with a different purpose and perhaps a more positive outlook for the applicant. Dan Leagjeld, whose parents previously owned the Ideal Township resort on the Whitefish Chain of Lakes, came before the Crow Wing County Planning Commission/Board of… Read More
With a 4-1 vote at the June 18 board meeting, BPRD moves forward with joint plan After what may have felt like an eternity, local officials have made some movement on the dredging of Mirror Pond—and for what the future might hold for one of Bend’s more recognizable landmarks. Mirror Pond—part of the Deschutes River… Read More
Orange Beach, Alabama has been asked to administer $475,000 of a $3 million Restore Act project studying hydrology and sediment in Perdido Bay from the U.S. 98 bridge in Lillian to the Gulf of Mexico. “It’s a three-part study for beneficial use of dredged sediment,” Coastal Resources Director Phillip West said. “The state reached out… Read More
SURF CITY — Flood relief could be coming to North Seventh Street in Surf City thanks, in part, to a $380,000 state Department of Transportation Trust Fund Grant earmarked for road surfacing. Mary Madonna, borough clerk/administrator, said the borough was recently awarded a portion of the DOT’s 2019 trust fund grant for the 300 block… Read More
Public outcry over a proposed 17-ft wall and other physical barriers to prevent storm surge along the Texas coast has led the Army Corps of Engineers to switch gears. Now, the Corps will focus on more nature-based solutions such as beaches and sand dune systems. In October, the Corps and Texas General Land Office released… Read More