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The move to dredge the port again was prompted when harbor pilots began complaining that the super ships now sailing through an expanded Panama Canal were having trouble turning. MIAMIA former biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who worked on the dredging of Port Miami pleaded guilty to lying about working part-time for… Read More
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A $4.8 million project to replenish Vero’s city beaches is moving forward for November. About 155,000 cubic yards of beach upland sand will be pumped on the beach, from south of Indian River Shores to the south end of Riomar Golf Course, said County Administrator Jason Brown. The project encompasses about… Read More
Lake Michigan water levels are at a record high and the coastline is getting pinched from above and below, Great Lakes consultant Cam Davis told Evanston residents at the Ecology Center Wednesday night. More intense rainstorms are causing bluff erosion while the higher lake levels are making the beaches below shrink, Davis, who’s also a… Read More
BEAUFORT – Two excavators moving in a noisy but graceful dance Wednesday chipped away at the tons of limestone marl piled on a 250-foot-long by 52-feet-wide barge, offloading the oyster bed base material at the Swan Island Oyster Sanctuary, where work is wrapping up this week on the three-year restoration project where the Neuse River… Read More
American Shore and Beach Preservation Association Derek Brockbank, Executive Director America’s Engineered Shoreline America has an engineered shoreline. The most iconic beaches in the country have all been restored, renourished, and re-engineered to mimic natural systems. The beaches of the Jersey Shore, Virginia Beach, Miami Beach, Galveston, Malibu, Santa Monica, and Waikiki are part of… Read More
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), during a recent Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, defended the use of offshore energy revenue sharing funds that support Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts. He also stated his serious concerns with a bill being considered by the committee that would divert unobligated revenue sharing funds to other federal… Read More
Speech to Text for Fountain Lake dredging Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. / dredging update-vo-2 it’s a story we’ve been following since before the project even began. the dredging of fountain lake in albert lea. as we… Read More
As part of its continued effort to help educate audiences about the inland waterways’ connection to agriculture, to the labor community, to freight shippers, to the Corps of Engineers, and to building communities, Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) has produced a series of short videos. The agriculture-focused video features comments by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny… Read More
The city of Sanibel and the firm that it hired have completed the extent and details of the emergency shore protection project located south of Blind Pass, running adjacent to Sanibel-Captiva Road. “We have finalized the design,” Natural Resources Director James Evans said on July 2. The week before, he reported that staff and Humiston… Read More
North Carolina – Oak Island, Caswell Beach, and Holden Beach could join in a collaborative study of beachfront erosion, making use of recently-approved federal funds available in a disaster relief act. BRUNSWICK COUNTY — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is asking three Brunswick County beach towns to team up in future beach renourishment and… Read More
Schedule changed to accommodate lobstering, spawning fish The long-awaited dredging of the Annisquam River now is expected to extend into a second season to accommodate the removal of more material, protect the river’s winter flounder habitat and reduce interaction with lobstermen and lobster gear during the disposal of dredged material, according to the U.S. Army… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is accepting public comments for the proposed dredging at Bird River and Railroad Creek. The work would include dredging 26,630 linear feet of the main channel to widths of 30 to 90 feet and to depths of 5 feet to -4 feet MLW. Dredging of 48 spur… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is requesting public comments on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed South San Diego Harbor dredging project in San Diego, California. The Corps, as part of its operations and maintenance program, is proposing to perform maintenance dredging in South San Diego Harbor Federal Channel… Read More
A crew out of Virginia wrapped up their work on the Jekyll Creek dredging process June 24, so the curious-looking dredge and associated equipment seen around the north end of Jekyll Island will be gone before too long. At the Jekyll Island Authority board meeting June 18, JIA Conservation Director Ben Carswell said the team… Read More
Councillor says that on Canada Day, children could be seen walking out in knee deep water in the bay during the fireworks… The Muskoka River needs to be dredged near the falls and its mouth, but who is responsible? Bracebridge Councillor Steve Clement says he’s heard from quite a few residents recently who want to… Read More