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Reprinted from the Island Free Press It’s deja vu all over again for Hatteras Inlet’s South Ferry Channel, much to the chagrin of the Dare County Waterways Commission. With a recent survey of the channel posted online during Monday’s remote meeting, Commission Chairman Steve “Creature” Coulter pointed to the red blotch – indicating shallow water… Read More
OCEAN CITY – At the north end of Ocean City’s Boardwalk, a small crowd gathered July 17 in the shadow of the Ocean City Beach Patrol headquarters to watch a beach be built. Federal beach replenishment projects have become routine in the city since the first one, in the 1990s, which drew far larger crowds… Read More
The Corps’ Dredge CURRITUCK is expected to be back in Ocean City for dredging operations starting later this week. The dredge is scheduled to work in the area for about a month, and will be removing material from in and around the channel, with an emphasis on the ebb and flood shoals in which sand… Read More
Memphis Engineer District Commander Col. Zachary Miller recently visited Island 68, a project site in Arkansas, where he met with the district’s Bank Grading Unit and reviewed progress made at the site thus far. According to Project Manager and River/Civil Engineer Cole Stonebrook, the USACE has done work here before as this area is particularly… Read More
Bisso Towboat Company Inc., Luling, La., has signed an agreement with Main Iron Works LLC, Houma, La., to begin construction of another new 6,008 BHP Tier 4 compliant, USCG-inspected ASD tractor tug. The tug will feature twin Caterpillar 3516E Tier 4F main propulsion engines generating 3,004 BHP each at 1,800 RPM. The engines will drive… Read More
BY OLIVIA CAMERON- For months, the sight of a barge has interrupted the endless ocean view from the south end of Boca Grande. Since February, a pile of equipment has been an unexplained puzzle to locals. Many island organizations were unsure of its sudden placement, but local fishermen have spent enough time on the water… Read More
Paul Rosenbohm routinely mixes lawn waste, food scraps and pumpkin residue from area farms for the Better Earth compost he markets throughout central Illinois. But he may have uncovered another ingredient for the mix: sediment from the Illinois River. While located nearby and virtually unlimited in quantity, the silt and sediment that’s been choking the… Read More
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced yesterday that she was able to include in the House’s Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA), the major water infrastructure bill, a provision that would help accelerate the cleanup of harmful sediments in and around the federal navigation channel in the Anacostia River. The provision… Read More
On Monday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to approve the FY2021 funding package for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The proposed top line number for USACE is $7.6 billion, about $1.7 billion more than the administration requested. According to the Waterways Council (WCI), Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) projects will receive $1.7 billion, about… Read More
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — The Padre Island National Seashore has teamed up with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to start the marine debris mapping project. “Because what we are trying to do, and what NOAA is trying to do is we are trying to discover how bad the marine debris problem is, how it… Read More
Two sides square off as plans for a proposed Lake LBJ dredging operation takes shape in Kingsland. Collier Materials has been meeting with county officials in June and July to offer more information about the mining operation which would extract sand from the water in the area of Comanche Rancheria to be filtered on private… Read More
At their July 7 regular meeting, the Southern Shores Town Council approved a services agreement with Coastal Protection Engineering of North Carolina to move forward with their 2022 beach nourishment project. The scope of work involved with the first portion of this project, which Southern Shores is taking on with three other neighboring municipalities, includes… Read More
Hatteras and Oregon inlets will receive federal dredging help this month. At the Dare County Waterways Commission on Monday night and the Oregon Inlet Task Force meeting Tuesday morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the dredge Merritt will return from Rudee Inlet to Oregon Inlet and to Hatteras Inlet. The Merritt will work… Read More