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Fall storms have forced more dredging to protect part of the Lake Superior shoreline from being overrun by mine waste. The cold-weather dredging is being done at Grand Traverse Harbor on Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula and is being funded by the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. We first visited Grand Traverse Harbor this summer, where five… Read More
To solidify Maine’s leadership in floating offshore wind energy and collaborate with Maine’s fisheries on the industry’s development, Gov. Janet Mills announced plans to create the country’s first floating offshore wind research array in the Gulf of Maine. With some of the highest sustained wind speeds in the world, the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf… Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is getting $234.6 million in BP oil spill settlement money for five wetlands restoration projects in three parishes. The allocations for Terrebonne, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes bring the state’s total in such restoration grants to more than $900 million this year, said Chip Kline, chairman of the state… Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group (LA TIG) has approved $234.6 million in funds resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement for restoration projects that will create and restore wetlands in Plaquemines and Terrebonne Parishes. BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group (LA TIG)… Read More
Despite some early weather-related delays, work has continued on the restoration project at West Lake Park in Davenport. The four lakes at the Scott County-owned complex have been drained, and many passersby on the nearby Interstate 280 have been getting the incorrect impression that work has stalled, said Roger Kean, executive director of the Scott… Read More
Florida’s waters may be protected from offshore drilling but the Bahamas plans to start looking for oil in less than a month at an exploratory well just 150 miles off the coast of the Sunshine State. Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) said in a regulatory filing last week that it contracted the UK-registered Stena IceMAX drill… Read More
Courtesy Elston Hill comes these photos showing dredging work being done in the entrance channel of the Des Moines this week. The channel was closed starting Monday, Nov. 16, to all vessel traffic for the emergency dredging. Click on the image below to open the photo gallery: Source: waterlandblog
Dart Container Corporation partners with UltraTech to provide grants to marinas, local governments MASON, Mich., Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Marinas and local governments across the US and Canada can stop litter from entering coastal and inland waterways and reduce marine debris thanks to a new grant program sponsored by Dart Container Corporation and UltraTech International,… Read More
Brooklyn officials and community activists are praising the long-awaited start of the EPA’s dredging project of the Gowanus Canal — a Superfund site and one of the most polluted bodies of water on the East Coast. A ceremony was held earlier this week near the historic Carroll Street Bridge, one of the few remaining retractable… Read More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has upheld Electric Boat’s request to use an eastern Long Island Sound dredging disposal site, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District. Citing environmental concerns, the state of New York had taken several legal actions seeking to stop use of the site, referred to as ELDS. The… Read More
Over the past several decades, the federal and state government have spent an estimated $1.5 billion to pump more sand on New Jersey beaches to widen them. In at least one spot along the Jersey Shore, they are spending millions of dollars now to take that sand off the beach. News 12 was in Monmouth… Read More
The Interstate Island Avian Habitat Restoration Project is listed as one of the many Areas of Concern (AOC) projects within the Great Lakes. Interstate Island is a small parcel of land located within the Duluth-Superior Harbor along the St. Louis River Estuary. Due to rising water levels, the island has shrunk in size by half… Read More
LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN — As the wind whipped across the top of the Big Sable Point lighthouse, one of the most famous and beloved on the Great Lakes, Jim Gallie pointed to the disappearing beach: “It’s been progressively getting worse.” Every few seconds, a wave slammed into the breakwall protecting the base of the lighthouse, sending… Read More
The state of Maryland is kicking off an exploration of the sediment impacted behind Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River and how that clay, silt and sand — mixed with various forms of debris and pollution — might be reused. A $1.5 million study of the characteristics of the sediment behind the dam is the… Read More
But state gets no construction money in latest phase of funding While Louisiana will not receive any construction money in the second phase of the latest RESTORE Act draft funding plan, the state is expected to get $1 million to fund various research and planning initiatives. In the first phase of awards, announced in February,… Read More