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BEARDSTOWN — After years of limited access to Beardstown Harbor, the city has begun the first phase of restoring access. Dredging along the banks of its marina has begun. Kelly Cagle, chairwoman of Beardstown Harbor, said the city has been working to get the marina open to boat access for several years but needed funds… Read More
Eroding beaches on Puget Island should receive nourishment from dredge sand this year, county officials reported Tuesday. County Commissioner Dan Cothren said he and others had discussed dredging issues in the past week with Carla Ellis, a dredging program manager for the US Army Corps of Engineers. “It was pretty upbeat,” Cothren said. There is… Read More
‘This is not just a study to study’ At the February BOCC meeting, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) presented its initial plan for coastal resilience to the county commissioners. The study will examine how to make the Keys more resilient, explained Rhonda Haag, the county’s chief resilience officer. It will result in a… Read More
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WPDE) — Nearly a decade after discussions began to plan the dredging of the Port of Georgetown, the silt muddying the bottom of the river remains in place. There have been task forces, studies, community meetings, and even a one-cent sales tax to raise the $30 million engineers estimated the project would cost…. Read More
By Mike Adams, Caroline Ryan and Marco Schaden The Army Corps of Engineers indefinitely postponed their scheduled Feb. 27 meeting after President Donald Trump’s administration’s proposed budget did not provide funding for the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study. The study focused on looking into how to best protect… Read More
By Paula Gardner | PaulaGardner@mlive.com Congress will get a chance to weigh a bill that would offer Michigan’s shoreline communities access to $300 million in a low-interest revolving loan fund. The effort is important, said U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, because rising water levels and coastal erosion in the Great Lakes pose what he called a… Read More
By Bryan Renbaum, MarylandReporter – Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined clean-water advocates on Wednesday to declare their support for emergency legislation that would prohibit Maryland from waiving a water-quality certification in a settlement agreement with energy company Exelon for a 50-year federal license to operate the Conowingo Dam. The legislation would effectively compel the state… Read More
Through the winter we have watched the excavators dredging muck from the bed of Rosemary Lake, removing some of the pollutants that have filtered in over the years (decades? centuries?). Earlier in the process, the drained lake was a magnet for birds, and herons, egrets, and even a bald eagle were spotted hunting fish in… Read More
Kiesa Kay Special to The Gardner News The spillway needs work, and in addition, Gardner Lake residents have expressed concerns for more than 15 years about dredging the lake, which involves an additional action plan and action steps. Although the City of Gardner owns the lake, most residences are in the county. “DWR regulations do… Read More
ENGLEWOOD — Boulder Pointe condominium owners are among the Manasota Key property owners celebrating the start of the beach nourishment project this week. For the first time in a decade or more, Boulder Pointe now has a dry sandy beach and not simply wet sand and a large pile riprap rocks along its Gulf shoreline…. Read More
(The Center Square) – The Florida House on Wednesday unanimously approved the Clean Waterways Act and a bill requiring sea-level studies for public projects, adopting landmark environmental legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law. Senate Bill 712, the 111-page Clean Waterways Act sponsored by Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Rockledge, was approved by the… Read More
SANTA BARBARA—The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission was briefed on several significant happenings at their Feb. 20 meeting. Items on the agenda included a briefing about discussions for a possible navy ship visit to the harbor, fuel dock renovations and dredging. Possible Navy Ship Visit New Waterfront Director Mike Wiltshire delivered a report on a recent… Read More
Susan Layton Chief, Planning and Policy Branch Norfolk District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The purpose of this presentation is to provide details and receive feedback on the Tentatively Selected Plan for the Florida Keys Coastal Storm Risk Management Study. The study just recently passed the Tentatively Selected Plan milestone and a Draft Feasibility Report… Read More
The maritime industry has been deeply affected as a result of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus and its impacts to Chinese manufacturing and logistics services. Ocean carriers have been forced to cancel services (“blanked sailings”) to and from China and the United States. The Federal Maritime Commission has been monitoring levels of blanked sailings… Read More
HOLDEN, Mass. – We were standing on the banks of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the real Mississippi River is halfway across the continent. We were in fact in the huge warehouse-sized laboratories above the Louisiana River Basin Scale, which was shocking to restore the scale to 1/65, right… Read More