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The long-awaited restoration project to revitalize threatened and endangered wildlife and reduce flooding in Pescadero took a major step forward earlier this month. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution on March 12 allocating $1 million toward a dredging effort at Butano Creek. Spearheaded by the San Mateo Resource Conservation District, with… Read More
Repairs to the Union Dike resumed Monday after a one-day suspension due to rain. The broken levee had previously offered a measure of flood protection to Valley, Nebraska, and surrounding areas. Lt. Col. James T. Startzell, deputy commander of the Omaha district of the corps, said repairs to the levee is expected to be completed… Read More
Sen. Rick Scott visited the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Naples Monday to highlight his Fighting for Florida budget agenda, which includes a more than $200 million investment to protect Lake Okeechobee and the Florida Everglades. Scott said he will work with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to secure a $200 million investment to… Read More
STONE HARBOR – Federal hydraulic beach replenishment projects on Seven Mile Island have always encompassed the neighboring boroughs of Avalon and Stone Harbor. Not so in 2019. Stone Harbor Borough Administrator Jill Gougher told the governing body March 19 that the borough had been dropped from the planned Army Corps of Engineers’ project. The replenishment… Read More
State Sen. Eddie Lambert, R-Prairieville, is calling for the advancement of a roughly $877 million sediment diversion effort—as well as more diversion projects in general—between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. In a speech today to the Press Club of Baton Rouge, Lambert advocated for what he called a “common-sense approach” to coastal restoration and flood… Read More
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WPMI) — The battle over who will pay for dredging at the Fly Creek Boat Channel in Fairhope is over. Fairhope tax payers will now be footing half of the $500,000 project. This after the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said no to the dredging after having done it for decades. It all… Read More
EMERALD ISLE – Weather and sea conditions last week forced work to pause, but the Post-Florence Renourishment Project for Bogue Banks is well underway, the Carteret County Shore Protection Office announced Monday. Phase 1 of the project, which includes part of Emerald Isle, Indian Beach and Salter Path, is expected to use 945,446 cubic yards… Read More
CHATHAM – Mariners in Chatham are seeking answers from town officials about increasingly difficult navigation conditions in Chatham Harbor. Coastal Resources Manager Ted Keon said the harbor channel opposite Lighthouse Beach is not navigable for larger vessels and that while the North Inlet provides enough water to access Pleasant Bay, the channel south into the… Read More
WEST POINT, MS – The closure of the through-traffic north and south of Aberdeen on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is costing Tronox in Hamilton an estimated $6 million in lost revenues and $630,000 in additional logistics and trucking costs. And that’s just one of dozens of examples up and down the Waterway, the head of Mississippi… Read More
The Popponesset approach channel, the main channel into Popponesset Bay, has a dim hope of being dredged for the coming boating season. The Barnstable County Commissioners met on Wednesday, March 27, and received a brief update on the channel. Assistant county administrator Stephen Tebo provided the three commissioners an update and said that he tried… Read More
EASTHAM — Before the scooping, there must be scoping. The selectmen of Eastham and Orleans agreed March 25 that two potential plans for dredging Nauset Estuary have merit. One would dredge the system from Town Cove through the main channel and behind the barrier beach to Nauset Inlet with spurs to the Priscilla and Hemenway… Read More
BOGUE BANKS — The $20.1 million beach nourishment stalled a bit late last week because of bad weather and sea conditions, but it’s still on track for completion well ahead of schedule. Work should begin in Emerald Isle by about Wednesday, April 3. The contract deadline for completion is Tuesday, April 30. Greg Rudolph, manager… Read More
Beach communities that rely on dredging to replenish protective dunes object to expanded federal protections A Trump administration proposal to vastly expand federal conservation land along the East Coast is facing protests from states and communities that say the plan will damage tourism industries that are still recovering from Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The dispute… Read More
CITY HALL — As the threat of “storm of the century” looms, the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to figure out how to get the New York and New Jersey region ready, but some of those ideas could potentially cause more water to actually hit Staten Island. Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
It’s become a yearly problem at Kelowna’s Cook Road boat launch. Silt and debris from the mouth of Mission Creek has drifted north, covering the boat launch, and making it virtually unusable, forcing the city to again dredge the area. Parks and building planning manager Robert Parlane says the city is in the process of… Read More