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CHATHAM – It looks like the town will not be getting a northern harbor channel dredged this year that was meant to aid commercial fishing and U.S. Coast Guard vessels trying to reach the Atlantic from their mooring field and fishing pier. Paul Revere III, the attorney representing Minister’s Point homeowner Gerald Milden, said Tuesday… Read More
Problems with a pipe feeding sand from offshore mean there’s been a shift in operations on the Nags Head beach renourishment project. Work has stopped off South Nags Head because of a leak in the underwater pipe near mile post 19 and the Outer Banks Pier, where the beach has reopened. Now both dredges have… Read More
Shoreline Foundations Inc. began placing 8-by-12-foot rectangular reef segments about a quarter-mile offshore of Indialantic this month.They are finishing the last 15 percent of a $10.6 million artificial reef that must be installed before dredges can pump sand on Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach, beginning late this year. That $15 million project is expected… Read More
A joint venture of MDG Design + Construction and Wavecrest Management completed the rehabilitation of a 1,395-unit public housing community in Far Rockaway, Queens. The project is the country’s largest single-site conversion under HUD’s RAD program RDC Development, a joint venture of MDG Design + Construction and Wavecrest Management, has announced the completion of a… Read More
FLORIDA – Collier County commissioners on Tuesday gave the green light to a $5.5 million beach renourishment project that will send sand-hauling trucks to three beaches starting this fall. Commissioners unanimously approved the project, which will bring between 120,000 and 130,000 cubic yards of sand from a mine in Immokalee to Clam Pass, North Park… Read More
Bridges to Anna Maria Island routinely get the maintenance equivalent of an oil change, but every 10 years or so the structures require significant repairs. A contractor with the Florida Department of Transportation planned to begin major repairs June 10 on the Longboat Pass Bridge linking Bradenton Beach and Longboat Key on State Road 789…. Read More
To keep waters navigable, they have to be dredged to allow the removal of vast volumes of wet sludge so ships can get through. Experts from around the Great Lakes are in town to see what this area does with dredged materials. Credit Mike Desmond / WBFO News If you are in the port business,… Read More
TARPON SPRINGS — When the city learned in March that $3 million in federal funding for the Anclote River dredging project had been diverted to hurricane relief efforts in the Panhandle, Mayor Chris Alahouzos was upset, but he vowed the project would continue moving forward. “I am very, very unhappy with what’s going on, losing… Read More
The state budget passed by the Hawaii Legislature includes funding for repairs at Waikiki Beach, officials said. The legislature approved about $13 million for improvements to the crumbling Royal Hawaiian seawall and other man-made structures at the state’s most visited beach, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. “This is the largest appropriation for beach improvements on… Read More
The Dredge Ellis Island is now working off a landing point located just south of Outer Banks Pier, according to the Town of Nags Head. Over the next five to six days, the construction associated with this dredge will progress about 500 feet south to tie into the beach that has already been nourished near… Read More
U.S. Forest Forest Service crews have restarted work on the Bonanza Stream Restoration Project. The project, which is located near the historic Bonanza town site in the Yankee Fork drainage, will restore nearly a mile of the Yankee Fork that was impacted by dredge mining. It will will substantially improve the ability of the Yankee… Read More
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will put $13.5 million in Waterway Improvement Fund grants towards projects that support boating all over the Bay. Some of the 58 projects being funded are statewide, like $2 million that will go towards replacing the state’s ice breaker, J. Millard Tawes, and $1.241 million for storm damage… Read More
On Monday, June 3, Dare County Board of Commissioners approved a beach nourishment project for Buxton. The $19.8 million project scheduled for 2021 will put one million cubic yards in the same nourished project area completed on February 27, 2018. The project combines $5.8 million through Federal Emergency Management Agency for 300,000 cubic-yard sand loss… Read More
Two dredges are working again off the Nags Head beach as pumping continues not far from fishing piers on the north and south ends of town. The Ellis Island is delivering sand just south of Outer Banks Fishing Pier in South Nags Head. Over the next five to six days, construction will progress about 500… Read More
ORLEANS — Plans to dredge the Nauset Estuary seem to be stuck in the sand as town officials try to convince Eastham to go along with the project. Fishermen and boaters have come to the town of Orleans pleading that something be done to open up the channel from Town Cove through Nauset Harbor and… Read More