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Sand replenishment underway at Gilgo Beach on Tuesday. Photo Credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa Loarca About 1.8 million cubic yards of sand are being placed on a narrow portion of Gilgo Beach that has eroded, bringing the ocean dangerously close to Ocean Parkway, officials say. More than $26 million in federal funds went to Illinois-based… Read More
Using bulldozers, work crews move sand to help rebuild dunes along North Topsail Beach. Credit Town of North Topsail Beach, NC Five months after Hurricane Florence, Topsail Island is still in the process of rebuilding. Beach towns along the barrier island that rely on tourism are busy prepping for the summer season. Chris Rackley is… Read More
HOUSTON – Offshore construction work on Saudi Aramco’s Safaniya Phase 5 project has finished with only a few close-out items remaining, said McDermott in its latest results statement. Fabrication continues for Safaniya Phase 6 with dredging of the necessary channel due to begin soon. McDermott has completed installation of 13 jackets for Aramco and all… Read More
This map depicts the area of Banks Channel that lies within the Coastal Barrier Resources Act zone. Topsail Beach leaders have asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to request an exception to be allowed to designate a sand borrow site within the zone for future federal funded beach renourishment projects. TOPSAIL BEACH – Rules… Read More
Florence Replenishment Project (2019) Fact Sheet: Florence (2019) Project Construction Map Area of Detail – ( Reach 1 – East EI) Area of Detail – ( Reach 2 & 3 – Indian Beach/Salter Path) Typical Cross Section 2/26/19 – The first submerged pipeline (“sub-line”) landing was transited to and installed earlier today at Reach 3… Read More
CONCORD, Mass. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Rye Harbor Federal navigation project (FNP) in Rye, New Hampshire. The state of New Hampshire is the local sponsor and has requested this dredging. Rye Harbor is a small, 40-acre estuarine embayment located approximately five… Read More
An excavator removes muddy sediment from the lagoon while dredging some boat slips. Make no mistake about it, Billy Griscom probably knows as well as anyone just how terribly clogged Ocean City’s lagoons have become over the years. He’s no scientist or engineer or environmentalist. He’s the guy operating a gigantic yellow excavator that is… Read More
The ongoing struggle for residents of Lido Key and the City of Sarasota to dredge sand from Big Pass to Lido’s eroded shoreline ran into a snag last week. Circuit Court Judge Andrea McHugh on Feb. 12 gave the City 20 days to argue why the court should not force the City to explain how… Read More
Photo Courtesy: Adam Elmquist The Blair County commissioners seem disposed to allow the Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee spread silt from the planned dredging of the Lakemont Park pond on county-connected ground near Buckhorn, according to ISC member and county administrator Helen Schmitt. The Intermunicipal Relations Committee is also willing to accept silt from the Lakemont dredging… Read More
Image of Charlie Helms, CEO/Harbormaster at Crescent City Harbor District Though they submitted a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board supporting the removal of four dams on the Klamath River, harbor commissioners continue to voice concerns about potential impacts from sediment and silt. During his CEO report on Tuesday, Harbormaster Charlie Helms said… Read More
On Thursday the safety committee of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District called for an emergency meeting to address the issue of shoaling in the bay due to severe winter storms. The harbor district, responding to results of soundings performed by the Army Corps of Engineers that found the bay shallower than at… Read More
DESTIN, Fla. – A popular waterway that fishermen in the Panhandle heavily rely on, is continuing to fill with sand. Okaloosa County officials having been working on solutions. The East Pass, located at the mouth of the Destin harbor is still in a state of emergency. For the last three months, Commissioners have fought to… Read More
Winter storms have desposited several feet of silt in the entrance channel to Humboldt Bay. File photo. The entrance to Humboldt Bay Harbor is dangerously shallow at the moment — so shallow that commercial ships are unable to traverse the channel leading to local docks. Commercial fishermen, whose boats don’t draft as much, are still… Read More
Photo Credit: Staff Jacksonville, FL – Jaxport CEO Eric Green said the harbor-deepening project is ahead of schedule and may even beat competitors to the north who are also racing to deepen their ports. Green called it a “photo finish” on Thursday at the State of the Port address but added that it all hinges… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will resume its sand-replenishment project in Long Beach next month.Christina Daly/Herald The Army Corps of Engineers is set to resume work on the second phase of a federally funded beach-protection project next month, after work was paused because of harsh weather and damaged equipment. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company… Read More