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by CHRIS ROGERS It has been a strange and difficult year on the Mississippi River. The same flood waters that have made key stretches of the river impassable for barge traffic for much of this year also dumped prodigious amounts of sand and sediment in the main channel. Now, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)… Read More
Contractors for Trout Unlimited and federal agencies cooperating on a project to restore fisheries habitat in the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River disturbed groundwater and released fine clay sediments into the stream on June 26. That created a muddy plume of water which flowed down the Yankee Fork into the Main Salmon River where… Read More
MANCHESTER — A paperwork processing delay has pushed the Singing Beach revetment repair project to the fall. T. Ford Company, Inc., the construction company hired for the FEMA-funded project, is expected to pull its equipment from the worksite sometime this week and return in September. The announcement was made via an update from selectmen on… Read More
Nantucket is a resilient community. Historically, we have weathered many storms and come back; the great fire of 1846, the end of the whaling industry, and countless hurricanes, a sewer main break. Predicted sea level rise, erosion, shifting sands, and other climate changerelated impacts are now testing the island’s resiliency in ways never imagined. Not… Read More
Camden — A proposal by Lyman Morse to send dredge spoils to the Mid Coast Solid Waste transfer station to assist with sealing off the landfill, in exchange for a discounted dumping fee, will not move forward. Joshua Moore, of Lyman Morse, was invited to speak to the MCSW Board at its regular monthly meeting… Read More
BATON ROUGE – Today, Gov. Edwards signed the 2019 capital outlay bill that provides nearly $1.5 billion in new funding for critical construction and infrastructure improvement projects throughout the state. The governor also exercised his constitutional authority and issued six line-item vetoes in the legislation. “From road and highway construction to education and coastal restoration… Read More
The failed Sesuit Creek restoration project provides a sobering reminder of what can go wrong with a Cape Cod salt marsh restoration. Not only did the project produce serious and costly downstream sedimentation problems, but it also degraded upstream wetlands. In 2008, the “Sesuit Creek-Bridge Street Habitat Restoration Project” replaced a collapsing culvert with two… Read More
Grain transportation came to a screeching halt for weeks after onslaughts of record flooding and round after round of severe storms slammed the nation’s heartland in March. The region is finally getting enough of a break from Mother Nature to let barges resume movement up and down the Mississippi River and its tributaries, from the… Read More
House Passes Energy & Water Appropriations Bill The House version of the bill includes $7.36 billion for the Corps of Engineers, and increase of $357 million from FY19 enacted and $2.53 billion above the president’s request. The majority of the bill language is status-quo for coastal projects, and we can expect some more muscle from… Read More
Carteret County, N.C. — Along the coast of North Carolina, there is a science project targeted at turning back time. The project by the North Carolina Coastal Federation aims to reclaim 6,000 farm acres back into marshland. “Everybody wants to gather a little closer,” said Bree Charron. “ We planted more than a million trees.”… Read More
By Donald Wittkowski Ocean City is lining up the funding for a series of road, drainage and dredging projects that will get underway in the fall. City Council introduced a $9 million bond ordinance Thursday night that includes $4.2 million to rebuild roads and alleys, $1.8 million for drainage improvements and $3 million for dredging…. Read More
By Maddy Vitale Bob Woolery, a married father of two, is raising his children in the same way as he grew up, in Ocean City and on the bay. Woolery, a dentist whose favorite hobby is boating, enjoys all that comes with living in the quiet Gardens section of town He and his wife, Brigid,… Read More
Off the coast of the Duluth-Superior industrial port, at the foot of the St. Louis River, lies Howards Bay — Lake Superior’s largest U.S. tributary. And the Howards Bay Remediation Project is targeting the removal of more than a century of industrial pollutants left on the bay’s bottom. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wisconsin Department… Read More
Hopper dredger Liberty Island has returned to Nags Head and is hard at work nourishing the beach in the vicinity of the submerged pipeline near the Epstein public beach. According to the town officials, now the dredger is back the construction will progress north over the next 10 days or so to tie into the… Read More
ENCINITAS — Encinitas officials Tuesday announced the completion of the Cardiff State Beach Living Shoreline Project, making it the second beach in the city that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Work began last October to restore a half-mile stretch of sand dunes that has historically been damaged by storms and flooding. The… Read More