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The Port of Morgan City is requesting emergency federal funds to combat extreme shoaling in the Atchafalaya River caused by massive amounts of sediment moved into the area by high water. Officials anticipate the shoaling will only worsen as the river levels drop and more sediment is deposited. The Atchafalaya has been above the 6-foot… Read More
None of the three bills that would have protected Man O’ War Shoal from oyster shell dredging made it out of committee during the 2019 session of the Maryland General Assembly, disappointing sport and conservation fishing groups as well as upper Bay watermen. This live-bottom area is the largest relic oyster reef in the upper… Read More
By Heiko Osterchrist- Associate Publisher, DredgeWire Anchored by an expert team of professionals, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) completed the Big Bend dredging project in Tampa, Florida twelve months ahead of schedule. GLDD team leaders Russ Zimmerman, South Atlantic Area Manager, Lynn Nietfeld, Corporate Project Sponsor and Project Manage Tim Kremer kept the… Read More
FALCONER — The shadow of the Burtis Bay fish kill lingers in the form of a remaining weed mass. With a jar of lake sludge in hand, Celoron residents Mike and Peggy Newell continued to make their plight known to the Ellicott Town Board. Monday’s town meeting was the stage for multiple lake matters. Town… Read More
LOOMIS LAKE — Maybe not complete victory — but significant success. That’s the mood of those involved in cleaning up the weed-infested Loomis Lake. Concerns about the potential loss of the Long Beach Peninsula’s largest inland lake for recreation and fears about falling property values were among spurs to action, which has taken place over… Read More
Lake Balboa was the main topic of discussion at the April Property Owners Association lakes committee meeting. Lakes manager Brad Meredith’s report, was given by committee chair Bill Goodwin because Meredith had been on the job until the wee hours of the morning doing fish shocking census work. The report said hydraulic dredging will take… Read More
The $63 million milestone project will allow for larger ships to call at the terminals. APOLLO BEACH, FL — The Big Bend Channel expansion is complete a year ahead of schedule. The $63 million milestone project, which deepened and widened the Big Bend Channel, will allow for larger ships to call at the terminals. “This… Read More
On Friday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced that on March 29, 2019, the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, a federal council, approved Alabama’s State Expenditure Plan for Gulf Coast recovery. The plan was developed by the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council. The plan proposes 28 activities for the Spill Impact Component of RESTORE funding, also… Read More
ATLANTIC BEACH, Carteret County — It’s almost tourist season and Atlantic Beach wants to make sure it’s fully dressed up for the many who will flock to their beaches. Just in the last week, you’ve probably noticed the new fences along the beach. It’s all part of a project to make sure everything looks back… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers arrived at Humboldt Bay today begin dredging the exorbitant amount of silt that’s funneled into the entrance channel during recent winter storms. While smaller fishing boats can still navigate the channel, the silt deposits have caused unsafe conditions for larger commercial vessels, like the barges that deliver six million… Read More
By Eugene “Jesse” Nash IV, Capital News Service Maryland Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Cockeysville, has introduced a bipartisan bill that would fund a project to produce a digital map of all 95,000 miles of the U.S. coastline. Coastal communities like Baltimore and Ocean City would benefit from the collection of geographic data about the nation’s coasts… Read More
The Port Tampa Bay dredging project to make it possible for larger ships to use the facility is done, and it’s a year ahead of schedule, port officials said. The Big Bend Channel Expansion project began in October and was supposed to take 18 months, Port Tampa Bay officials said Monday, but it was completed… Read More
The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was a seemingly invincible bulwark against flooding. But now, 11 months after the Army Corps of Engineers completed one of the largest public works projects in world history, the agency says the system will stop providing… Read More
RAYMONDVILLE, RGV – Fears that President Trump would swipe the money set aside to dredge the Port Mansfield ship channel in order to build a border wall have been allayed. Willacy County Navigation District learned last week that the $17 million earmarked for dredging operations was safely deposited with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…. Read More
WESTERLY — Town staff members will continue to work on obtaining permits for a large-scale dredge of Winnapaug Pond and hope that local funds materialize to match federal grants, officials said this week. An approximately $2.1 million dredging grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service expired Thursday. The town is seeking… Read More