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LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it couldn’t wait for spring floods to recede before starting to dredge the Mississippi River because of the volume of sand that needs to be removed. Dan Cottrell is the Corps dredging manager for the St. Paul district, which stretches from Minnesota’s capital… Read More
Beach renourishment is almost complete in the Historic District area, with only a few odds and ends to tie up for a few days. Work on the south end is scheduled to begin this weekend. Our source at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville, Public Affairs Specialist Jim Yocum, explained it more thoroughly…. Read More
The town of Pawleys Island will seek to change state law in order to raise money for beach renourishment through a property tax. Town Council this week hired a law firm to draft the measure. It will have to decide whether it wants to champion a bill itself or hire a lobbyist. The town hopes… Read More
The opening of the newly dredged channel in Neabsco Creek was recently made official with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held on a pontoon boat on the creek waters leading to the Potomac River. About a year ago, the U.S. Coast Guard closed the channel to boat traffic because silt and sediment in the channel made it… Read More
Beach renourishment is almost complete in the Histric District area, with only a few odds and ends to tie up for a few days. Work on the south end is scheduled to begin this weekend. Our source at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville, Public Affairs Specialist Jim Yocum, explained it more thoroughly…. Read More
The future of Newport Harbor includes big dredging projects, evolving the newly created Harbor Department, reviewing and possibly revising the city’s harbor code (Title 17), and fine-tuning management of the moorings, among a long list of other goals, issues and tasks. About 75 people packed into the community room at the Newport Beach Civic Center… Read More
GREEN BAY — Take a good long look at that sand barge working near the Walnut Street Bridge this week. After this summer, you may never see another out there. The barge is depositing sand over still-toxic areas at the bottom of the Fox River, part of the cleanup operation that has been working from… Read More
Visitors to the Pass A’Loutre Wildlife Management Area to the south and east of Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River will have to watch where they step this summer—and be on guard—because of protective least terns, killdeer, black-necked stilts and sanderlings nesting in the area. It’s an area bustling with avian activity, thanks… Read More
Inlet Channel Re-Opens in time for Boating Season PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Prince William Board of County Supervisors is pleased to announce the Neabsco Creek Channel is re-opened and restored to navigable depth, as approved by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The opening was made official during a ribbon cutting ceremony on… Read More
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An amendment to a federal spending bill would halt progress on the Pebble Project permitting process. California Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman’s appropriations amendment basically says none of the funds in HR 2740 can be used for the Army Corps of Engineering to finalize the environmental impact statement for the proposed Pebble… Read More
A leak in a submerged pipe carrying sand to the beach from offshore has halted construction work south of the Outer Banks Fishing Pier. Contractor Great Lakes has moved the dredge Ellis Island, which was working in that area, north to pump sand onto the beach along with the Liberty Island near Milepost 12.5. “Unfortunately,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday notched a first in its efforts to repair badly damaged levees along the Missouri River. A 1,200-foot hole in the levee south of Council Bluffs was closed. The breach is one of four priority repairs along the Missouri River between Omaha and Rulo, Nebraska, and it is… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Division’s Mosul Dam Task Force hosted the Ambassadors from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and the Italian Embassy in Iraq, along with the Iraq Minister of Water Resources for a ceremony on June 15, 2019. The event signified the Ministry of Water Resources taking the lead on all… Read More
ORLEANS — Maybe this would be easier if Orleans had never split from Eastham in 1797. Instead, two boards of selectmen rather than one will meet again at the Eastham Public Library, on June 24 at 5:30 p.m., to try to find a way forward on dredging Nauset estuary. The shoaled-up estuary is a hazard… Read More
Westbrook — When a town’s economy depends heavily on boating, dredging is a very big deal. On June 1, the Currituck, a special-purpose dredge of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), received a warm welcome as it arrived in Westbrook Harbor to clear the channel and allow boats to move through efficiently and safely…. Read More