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Washington – A fierce court battle between Connecticut and New York over the state’s dumping of sediment in the eastern portion of Long Island Sound will come to a head this summer. Connecticut says the new underwater dump site is needed to maintain the state’s economic development effort – including its lucrative submarine construction business… Read More
BOSTON — The Baker-Polito administration announced its fiscal year 2020 Capital Investment Plan Thursday, with funding for two major projects in the city. The plan includes $10 million for the city’s harbor dredging project and $115 million for South Coast Rail. The funding for dredging is “part of the Administration’s continuing commitment to economic development… Read More
The federal government is taking a new look at curing North Jacksonville’s dying Fort George River inlet, which is choking on an enormous amount of trapped sand that could one day dam the tidal river from the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet’s troubles are well-documented, as are the associated threats of erosion to Little Talbot Island,… Read More
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) – The Georgia and South Carolina coasts have taken a beating from tropical systems over the past few hurricane seasons. Tropical Storms Bonnie, Colin, Hermine and Hurricanes Matthew, Irma and Michael all contributed to significant beach erosion along the coast. Hurricanes Matthew and Irma’s storm surge and wave run-up contributed the… Read More
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A multimillion dollar dredging project is underway on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Georgetown to Charleston. The Army Corps of Engineer aims to remove 50,000 dump trucks worth of silt material from the Breach Inlet area of the waterway during this current dredge project. The project manager overseeing this said removing… Read More
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — Boat season is seemingly year-round in the Lowcountry, but it takes a lot of work to keep it that way. A major dredging project is underway along the Atlantic Intracoastal Water Way. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to remove sand and sediment sitting on the bottom. Build-up occurs… Read More
Hartford — Backed by Connecticut lawmakers and hundreds of maritime businesses that bank on periodic dredging of area channels and harbors, state Attorney General William Tong recently filed a brief in U.S. District Court responding to New York’s effort to block a 30-year silt disposal site in Connecticut waters between the mouth of the Thames… Read More
‘You can go and do studies all you want,’ says Happy Valley-Goose Bay Mayor Wally Andersen Some residents of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Mud Lake Road want the Churchill River dredged to reduce the risk of flooding. “We need this river dredged to take the sandbars because the sandbars are built up,” said John Chiasson,… Read More
Results are preliminary, final report due in August Required testing of a system to mitigate oxygen loss from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) is complete, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday. SHEP will deepen the Savannah River from 42 to 47 feet to accommodate larger, fully loaded ships and allow for fewer… Read More
A study commissioned by King Ranch Inc. claims that projects like the one proposed by a Switzerland-based international commodities company off the Padre Island National Seashore are “safe and effective.” The study examined the single point mooring systems, which is what Trafigura’s Texas Gulf Terminals project plans to implement, in terms of their use to… Read More
Work to restore two barrier islands and one barrier headland in the Terrebonne Basin is expected to begin in 2020. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management signed an agreement Monday to use sand from federal waters to restore about 1,400 acres of habitat on Trinity-East Island,… Read More
ASPN’s full DC Team | WaterLog and Capitol Beach On this special joint podcast from The Capitol Beach and Water Log, hosts Derek Brockbank, Howard Marlowe and Dan Ginolfi have a discussion with the leadership of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Planning and Policy. Eric Bush, Acting Director, and Joe Redican, Deputy Director, bring district… Read More
Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were in Wachapreague on Tuesday to answer questions and solicit comments from the public about a proposal to use dredge spoils to build up nearby marshland. The Army Corps and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission recently announced the release of a draft program related to proposed future… Read More
Little Egg Harbor Township — The shoreline restoration project on Iowa Court in Little Egg Harbor Township seems to be on track for completion this summer. The bulkhead is almost finished; then the rocks and backfill will commence. David Fuller, a member of the dredge committee of the Osborn Island Residents Association, said the amount… Read More
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The Port Clinton Lakeshore Preserve has a lot of moving parts and the wetlands restoration project will take time, but the five-year project in the muck and mire of the marsh on the Lake Erie shoreline in downtown Port Clinton finally began this week. Noxious phragmites, an invasive parasitic plant that had taken over the… Read More