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FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — Flagler Beach is among the most fragile beaches on the east coast and for years the pounding surf has punished the dunes. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew took out a portion of A1A, but a new federal beautification project could provide some relief. Flagler County leaders are enthusiastic about the Army Corp… Read More
In a decision that Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called “a major victory for Connecticut’s maritime economy,” the U.S. District Court in New York has upheld the state’s choice of a new dredge disposal site in eastern Connecticut. The 1.3-mile underwater site, between the mouth of the Thames River and Fishers Island, was designated by… Read More
Administration will prepare a report with short-term and long-term goals on the lake cleanup while it is drained for work on the dam rehabilitation project. THUNDER BAY – With the water from Boulevard Lake drained due to the ongoing dam rehabilitation work, a city councilor wants to take advantage of the rare opportunity to do… Read More
The Hampton Roads Alliance has unveiled a new initiative to develop a comprehensive supply chain to serve the East Coast offshore wind industry. This effort is made possible largely thanks to a Department of Housing & Community Development GO Virginia grant of $529,788 that will help fund the first two years of this effort. This… Read More
FORT WORTH, Texas — Officials with the Regional Planning and Environmental Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announce today approval of the Whitney Lake Shoreline Management Plan. The US Army Corps of Engineers thanks you for your involvement and interest with the revision of the Whitney Lake Shoreline Management Plan. Public and stakeholder input was… Read More
FORT WORTH, Texas — Officials with the Regional Planning and Environmental Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announce today the approval of the Lake O’ the Pines Shoreline Management Plan. The US Army Corps of Engineers thanks you for your involvement and interest with the revision of the Lake O’ the Pines Shoreline Management Plan…. Read More
The Jordan Cove Energy Project hit another roadblock Friday after a state agency reversed local approval for part of the project’s construction. The city of North Bend had approved a local land use permit last year for Jordan Cove to operate a dredging project in the Coos Bay Estuary, which would make room for natural… Read More
Federal contractors remove hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and sand each year from the Toledo Harbor shipping channel to keep it deep enough for freighters plying the Great lakes to get to and from local docks. But when Ryba Marine Construction of Cheboygan, Mich., starts work in September on this year’s $2.1… Read More
Smithtown will pay an East End contractor to map the shallow Long Island Sound floor near the mouth of Stony Brook Harbor as town officials make the case for dredging they say is needed to maintain access for thousands of recreational vessels as well as police and bay constables. The town proposal focuses on a… Read More
You could be reading today that the future use of the U.S. Submarine Base in Groton was in question, so too Electric Boat’s plans to utilize its shipyard in that town for construction of a new generation of submarines. Cross Sound Ferry could be evaluating possible ticket increases. Thankfully, none of that is the case… Read More
System storage is 61.8 MAF and has likely peaked (upper right quadrant). Last week the National Weather Service updated their August (lower right quadrant) and August-October precipitation and temperature outlooks. Mountain snowpack has essentially melted. Fort Peck releases will be reduced from 11,000 cfs to 9,000 cfs on July 28 for about 2 weeks to… Read More
The State of New York has announced its second offshore wind solicitation, seeking up to 2,500 MW of projects. The solicitation includes a multi-port strategy and requirement for offshore wind generators to partner with any of the eleven prequalified New York ports to stage, construct, manufacture key components, or coordinate operations and maintenance activities. Funding… Read More
Trout Unlimited and a list of partners have spent the past six years restoring the Ninemile Creek watershed from the mainstem up to the tributaries that provide quality habitat for spawning fish and other species. The work, intended to restore decades of mining and dredging that scoured gold off the bottom of what once was… Read More
Reprinted from the Island Free Press It’s deja vu all over again for Hatteras Inlet’s South Ferry Channel, much to the chagrin of the Dare County Waterways Commission. With a recent survey of the channel posted online during Monday’s remote meeting, Commission Chairman Steve “Creature” Coulter pointed to the red blotch – indicating shallow water… Read More
OCEAN CITY – At the north end of Ocean City’s Boardwalk, a small crowd gathered July 17 in the shadow of the Ocean City Beach Patrol headquarters to watch a beach be built. Federal beach replenishment projects have become routine in the city since the first one, in the 1990s, which drew far larger crowds… Read More