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Coney Island Creek is the proposed site for a New York City ferry that would link lower Manhattan and Coney Island, but because the location is too shallow, it would require dredging. An environmental impact statement recently completed of the creeks shows high levels of mercury, lead and other toxins. Natural Resources Protective Association Executive… Read More
atlantic beach — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got off to a fast start this week, as sand was piped to and spread from the Circle development district to the 300 block of Ocean Ridge Road as of Friday morning. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said the… Read More
February is traditionally downtime for beach towns, but each year the shoreline along some stretches of North Carolina’s central and southern coast is anything but quiet as crews work around the clock to pump millions of cubic yards of sand in a never-ending fight against erosion. Early last week, bulldozers and pipe haulers began crawling… Read More
A potential beach nourishment project in Avon took a step forward at the February 4 meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC), as the Board unanimously selected contractor Coastal Science and Engineering to submit a contract for a feasibility study. County Manager Bobby Outten explained to the Board that the Capital Improvements Planning… Read More
Mammoet’s team has successfully completed the second phase of the relocation of several shipping container cranes for Hutchison Ports ICAVE as part of a planned port expansion in Veracruz, Mexico. Mammoet used 56 axle lines of SPMT to transport two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and ten rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs). The completion of the crane relocations… Read More
Operation of America’s first commercial offshore wind power farm now will not happen in 2022, as feared after federal officials said Feb. 11 that they expect a 16-month delay in issuing a final environmental impact statement for the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts waters. “While we need to analyze what a longer permitting timeline will… Read More
The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released a revised permitting timeline for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project. The timeline indicates the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Vineyard Wind I project will issued in December, over a year later than its previous target of August 2019. BOEM… Read More
In this photo provided by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards sticking a large pin in a mural of Louisiana’s coast, in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, to show the location of the Maurepas Swamp. A council created to allocate money from water pollution fines paid after the… Read More
For ports, terminals and stakeholders along two of the South’s major waterways, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2020 work plan, released February 10, marks a major milestone in the campaign to deepen ship channels to 50 feet. The Corps’ 2020 work plan includes $85.35 million to initiate the first phase of deepening the Mississippi… Read More
The Town of Fort Myers Beach is bringing on a consultant to study the erosion of the beach specifically in the area near Bowditch Point Park to Lynn Hall Park. The study is the first step in the laying the groundwork for an application to the county for funds to conduct beach restoration as has… Read More
The multi-pronged project, anticipated to cost at least $2 million, is set to start near the end of the month and could be completed in about 30 days. DESTIN – After almost two years-worth of delays, the dredging of sand that clogs up the East Pass navigation channel next to Destin is about to get… Read More
Amid a deadline this week for the city of Hamilton to come up with a plan for the remediation of Chedoke Creek, a city study is suggesting against the dredging of sludge from a 24 billion-litre spill. An update from the city’s public works department on Thursday says recent testing of the creek shows the… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers released its allocations for the Donor and Energy Transfer Ports in its Operation and Maintenance Work Plan (released 10 February 2020). “Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers continue to follow recent past precedence in allocating important funding for harbors and waterways that are considered energy transfer and donor ports,”… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Work Plan this week (10 February 2020). Below includes highlights of specific operation, maintenance and navigation dredging projects in the United States funded through the O&M account this year (2020). This is not an exhaustive listing, be sure to review the actual O&M… Read More
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, received an $18.225 million boost for fiscal 2020, including funds for oyster restoration, study of Baltimore Harbor improvements and more. This funding is through the 2020 Work Plan, published Feb. 10, 2020, for the Army Civil Works Program, which is Congressionally authorized funding specifically for… Read More