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Try to imagine, for a moment, a vast convoy of nearly 1,700 dump trucks rumbling down the highway. And also try to imagine each one of those trucks filled with a load of muddy goo. That is the rough equivalent of all the soup-like sediment that Sean Scarborough’s dredging company removed from the clogged lagoons… Read More
Brick Township officials are developing a Dredging Master Plan that will help residents who are interested in having their lagoons dredged. Dredging in Brick has been a source of some contention in recent years. Some waterfront residents say they pay a premium in property taxes but cannot utilize their waterfront access because lagoons are too… Read More
RYE — The Board of Selectmen met with a state Department of Environmental Services representative to review conservation practices to reduce erosion and prepare for impacts of sea level rise on the town’s coast and coastal estuaries. DES Coastal Resilience Coordinator Kirsten Howard spoke before the board Monday about coastal flooding and the erosion on… Read More
WEST OLIVE — “Are there any positives?” It was a serious question from Ottawa County Commissioner Francisco Garcia during Tuesday’s public hearing about a proposed dredging project on the Grand River. Dan O’Keefe, a Michigan State University Extension educator, had just outlined numerous threats the project would pose to habitat and aquatic species as other… Read More
SOMERSET — Because of erosion that has caused damage to them, the stairs in the area of the bluffs that go down to the beach at Pierce Beach Park have been closed. Town Planner Nancy Durfee said the wooden platform of the stairs caved in because the material under it eroded away. Durfee said a… Read More
POINTE COUPEE PARISH, LA (WAFB) – Since 2011, newly appointed Pointe Coupee Parish President Major Thibaut has been part of the process to restore False River. The sights and sounds of water, in sort of a cadence, crashing into piers is what most people in the community like. Over 30,000 acres in Pointe Coupee Parish… Read More
Time is not on the side of the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk. With the Indiana legislature preparing to finalize the state’s biennial budget this month, advocates working to save the riverwalk from further erosion and the resulting damage said receiving $1 million in state funds now toward beach nourishment and a study on long-term solutions… Read More
Construction on the controversial $516,000 Flagler County Coastal Wetlands Restoration Project began on Feb. 13 on 100 acres of decades-old dragline ditches in the area of the Intracoastal Waterway, parallel to Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area and parts of Flagler Beach. Like the “turbidity” it produces when an excavator demolishes and rebuilds the ditches as… Read More
“They start at 6 a.m., if you can believe it,” my friend told me with a hint of frustration. This was his neighborhood, and we were both gawking at a huge pile-driver sitting atop the dune across from the Turtle Shack in Flagler Beach. The machine is being used to sink pillars 30 feet down… Read More
The City of Marco Island is making sure it’s ready for hurricane season by adding sand to its beaches. “It’s just protective,” Marcia Faircloth said. “It’s just preventative, and you need that.” Construction crews are dredging nearly 175,000 cubic yards of sand. This creates a slope, since the beach is flat right now. It also… Read More
From the St. Johns River Water Management District Navigational access near the mouth of the Apopka-Beauclair Canal may be limited as the St. Johns River Water Management District enters the final stages of a sump dredge project designed to help improve water quality in Lake Apopka. Additional dredging will also improve navigational access in the… Read More
Sarasota city manager says shoreline now better able to withstand storms. More than 200,000 cubic yards of sand – enough to fill 1,500 backyard swimming pools – now rests on Lido Beach following completion of a New Pass dredging project that began in November. The $3.9 million project pumped sand from the waterway that separates… Read More
Dorchester Holdings of Tampa says muck dumped from Lake Maggiore in 2004 has contaminated its property near Gandy Boulevard with arsenic ST. PETERSBURG — For two years starting in 2004, as part of a massive $13-million cleanup of Lake Maggiore, trucks hauled and dumped 1.3 million cubic yards of sediment from the lake bottom to… Read More
Today Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a new supplemental disaster appropriations bill: The previous version, HR 268, stalled in the Senate over complications with funding Puerto Rico and other issues. The new bill, HR 2157, does support Puerto Rico, but it also includes $3 billion to address urgent needs resulting from… Read More
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WPMI) — A proposed Senate Bill could put Dauphin Island in a much better position to prevent beach erosion. SB215 will have a hearing on Thursday morning in Montgomery, sponsored by Senator David Sessions. In a nutshell, the bill proposes that the sand removed from dredging in the Mobile River would be… Read More