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Started in January 2015, the $973 million Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) is on time and budget with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers overseeing the initiative that is deepening the federally-owned channel from 42 to 47 ft. at low tide (54 ft. at high tide) from Garden City Terminal (GCT) throughout the entrance channel… Read More
Article III of the Constitution states that the “judicial power shall extend . . . to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction.” In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress granted to the district courts exclusive original jurisdiction in civil cases in admiralty and maritime matters. THE DUTRA GROUP, PETITIONER v. CHRISTOPHER BATTERTON DCA Summary:… Read More
With competition in Texas and Oklahoma growing and taking more business, the frac sand industry in Wisconsin is struggling, and, Kent Syverson, says he believes the state’s frac sand boom is over, the StarTribune reports. Superior Silica Sands has idled three of its sand mines, and Hi-Crush is discontinuing production at its Augusta mine. According… Read More
New York – The Quogue Village Board voted down a proposal on Friday to form an erosion control taxing district that, if approved, would have funded a beach nourishment project to restore the eastern portion of the village’s public beach. The board agreed that while the beach nourishment project would have been effective in combating… Read More
New study says building defenses along Jersey Shore would cost billions and suggests the fossil-fuel industry should pay New Jersey would have to pay almost $25 billion to build almost 2,700 miles of seawalls to protect its coastal communities from anticipated sea-level rise by 2040, according to the latest study on the state’s vulnerability to… Read More
Syt. Augustine, Florida – Many residents want to understand what actual plans have been agreed to after years of struggling with different proposals to save our North Beaches, driven by the efforts of the South Ponte Vedra-Vilano Beach Preservation Association and other community organizations. Total cost of the initial beach restoration project is about $26.5… Read More
While the calculated economic costs to the entire nation is expected to peak at $416 billion, Florida’s regions are heavily represented in the report’s pages. MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – The provocatively titled report High Tide Tax was released Thursday by the Center for Climate Integrity and claims Florida will have to spend $74 billion in… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrapping up Gasparilla Island Beach nourishment project Excavators were seen driving off island Thursday morning, June 20, as the beach renourishment program is wrapping up. The extra beach isn’t as obvious at the Historic District access points … but my, oh my, is it ever noticeable at the old fishing… Read More
Note: This essay is part of a Rutgers University project in which faculty experts weigh-in on how action driven by science, policy, engineering and planning could future-proof the Garden State. To read more about Rutgers’ work on this issue, visit impact.rutgers.edu/the-rising-tide. In New Jersey’s effort to adapt to rising sea levels, we are facing infrastructure… Read More
Coastal Property Guide advises against the use of hard rock to protect shoreline. This story is part of a CBC News series entitled In Our Backyard, which looks at the effects climate change is having in Canada, from extreme weather events to how it’s reshaping our economy. When the UPEI Climate Lab first started using… Read More
Building walls to hold off sea rise — for just the next 20 years — would cost South Carolina’s coastal and estuary communities nearly $20 billion. Charleston alone would face more than $1 billion in costs. Those are the jolting conclusions from a Center for Climate Integrity study released Thursday. Coastal communities around the country… Read More
Putting up walls to protect the seven cities from rising sea levels would cost the region more than $4.6 billion, according to a nationwide study released Thursday. The Center for Climate Integrity, a project of the nonprofit Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, released estimates of how much it would cost to build seawalls in… Read More
CLEVELAND — Tomorrow marks 50 years since the Cuyahoga River last caught fire and in doing so, captured the attention of a nation. Well truth be told, it wasn’t the June 22, 1969 fire that caught the eye of America but rather one 17 years earlier in 1952. That was the fire TIME Magazine ran… Read More
As the federal government considers a network of steel surge barriers to limit flooding in waters from Fire Island Inlet to the Throgs Neck Bridge, planners are working to reduce the chance that one region’s barrier could leave others in deeper water. In the past four months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working with… Read More
Resident David Barnes – armed with photos – detailed shoaling problems on the Rogue River Wednesday for Curry County commissioners. He said at least a dozen boats had been stuck on a shoal across the mouth of the Rogue River inlet. The photos showed what Barnes called almost complete blockages at the entrance to the… Read More