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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — Myrtle Beach City Council proposed an amendment Tuesday to Senate bill 869, or the Beach Preservation Trust Act, which would provide state funding to municipal and local governments for beach renourishment projects. The funds would go toward the restoration of eroded public beaches and the enhancement of public beach access,… Read More
Syracuse, N.Y. — Opponents of a proposed beach on Onondaga Lake say the lake may still be too contaminated to allow people to swim there. Lindsay Speer, a member of A Better Future for Onondaga Lake, said the proposed beach area at Willow Bay, at the lake’s northern tip, hasn’t done properly tested for toxic… Read More
Phase III of Governor’s Resiliency & Economic Development Initiative Dredging Project Begins With Engagement of Regional Dredging Management Planning Council Organizers Regional Dredging Management Planning Council to Synchronize Ongoing State and Local Dredging Efforts and Local Maintenance Dredging Plan in the Future State Launches New Coastal Lakeshore Economy and Resiliency Initiative to Help Flood-prone Communities… Read More
Federal project will pump sand to build up dunes and beach protecting businesses, commercial dock and parkland. After storms battered the East End of Long Island this fall, destroying dunes along Dune Road in Hampton Bays, causing flooding, and what officials called a near breaching of the barrier island just west of Shinnecock Inlet, a… Read More
Army Corps gives no reason for cut after Trump says it would be ‘foolish’ to build massive barrier between Sandy Hook and Point Breeze, NY The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed yesterday that it has lost federal funding for two studies on ways to prevent rising seas and bigger storms from devastating the New… Read More
Despite proposed budget cuts and rising seas, the Corp’s beach-building efforts on the Shore are stronger than ever On a mild, clear February morning in Sea Bright, the Jersey Shore’s northernmost oceanfront borough, Jason Shea stood on the community’s towering seawall looking satisfied with the view before him. Just to the south, contractors were nearing… Read More
During the boating season, Hampden harbormaster Peter Neal is used to seeing a few vessels that have run aground in the channel between the town’s public boat launch and the Penobscot River. Now, the town is eyeing a couple different improvements to its small marina, which is next to the privately owned Hamlin’s Marina. Those… Read More
From massive dredging and beach renourishment in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown to renovations at the Gay Head Cliffs overlook, a number of public works improvement projects are under way around the Island this winter. North Bluff in Oak Bluffs has a brand new beach. — Aaron Wilson All are being paid for with a variety… Read More
Dredging of the Ala Wai Canal is set to begin next week, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said. It’s been 18 years since the last dredging, and the DLNR said silt and sediments have piled up. Crews will dig up to 12 feet below the surface. All muck will be dumped at… Read More
Nonbinding resolutions, by definition, have no direct effect, but a state House resolution passed in 2019 against energy exploration off the Georgia coast led U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-1, to reconsider his position and send a letter to the Interior Department asking it to remove the state from its offshore oil and gas leasing plans…. Read More
Scores of beachside property owners and Flagler Beach residents turned out for a meeting on the planned beach renourishment of 2.6 miles of beach starting later this year. The meeting was hosted by county officials and held at Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive) Flagler County government is looking for… Read More
Feds, state funding already committed funds toward $774 million, multi-year harbor deepening project JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two years into a project deepening the 13-mile shipping channel from the mouth of the St. Johns River to Jacksonville Port Authority’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, the city of Jacksonville was asked to contribute $70 million to the project… Read More
The Jacksonville Port Authority will be asking the city to issue $70 million in bonds to help fund its harbor deepening project as well as lend the port millions more from city reserves. The $484 million project to deepen the St. Johns River shipping channel has already received significant funding from both the state and… Read More
Pols decry equipment move to Mar-a-Lago A federal Army Corps of Engineers official did not address why dredges and crews were being redirected from the Fire Island to Moriches Inlet Stabilization Project to a nonemergency project less than one mile from President Trump’s resort in Florida in response to an inquiry by The Star this… Read More
The third phase of the dredging project along Lake Ontario, as part of the REDI plan, is officially underway. The state says it’s giving counties information they need to update, expand, and implement an existing regional dredging management plan, according to WHEC-TV. It’s part of the state’s plan to repair and build resiliency in communities… Read More