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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A beach nourishment project has started at Upham Beach in Pinellas County. Upham Beach getting renourished Project to last a couple of weeks Renourishment to help protect residents, wildlife The county has worked on Upham Beach for the last couple of years with a stabilization project that started in 2017. Now… Read More
Local official says Portage Lake channel will be ‘first-class’ ONEKAMA — Onekama is known as the two lake town, and much of its economy is based on those two lakes. The Portage Lake channel was first cut in 1871 to connect Portage Lake with Lake Michigan, but its walls have not received the maintenance required… Read More
SOUTH FLORIDA — Though still not locked in, a $200 million budget boost for Everglades and Florida Bay restoration passed in a key U.S. House of Representatives committee last week, giving South Florida conservationists a rare reason to smile. “It’s actually amazing, almost unbelievable,” said Elizabeth Jolin of Florida Bay Forever, based in Islamorada. “Voices… Read More
Dredging has resumed in the Delaware and Raritan Canal, with the current season expected to run through the end of October. As of May 1, the canal was closed to boaters between the Walking Bridge and Griggstown Lock, to accommodate work in Reach 3. The next segment to be dredged in 2019 will be Reach… Read More
US Army Corps Of Engineers: High Waters Quadrupled River Locations Needing Dredging This Spring Frequent flooding on the upper Mississippi River this year has slowed navigation and increased the need for dredging. The flooding has flushed more sediment into the main navigation channel of the Mississippi River, said Dan Cottrell, dredging manager for the St…. Read More
Houston-based NextDecade has obtained three state permits needed for its proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at the Port of Brownsville.On Friday it received an important federal environmental study that will lay the groundwork for it to receive key federal approvals. Federal regulators have released a key environmental study of NextDecade’s proposed Rio Grande LNG… Read More
Lake Okeechobee has been in the news, most recently due to attention being paid to the level at which the US Army Core of Engineers maintains it n the period leading up to the summer. Last month, Palm Beach County’s Board of County Commissioners met with commissioners from Glades, Hendry, Martin and Okeechobee counties to… Read More
DECATUR — The boats are back in the waters of Lake Decatur this Memorial Day weekend, with owners ready to enjoy the fruits of a multiyear dredging project and hear music from the new Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater drifting across the waves. While some aspects of a long-term plan to transform the lakefront have cruised ahead… Read More
Hurricane Harvey dumped 51 inches of rain on the Houston area, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and left $125 billion in damage. In its aftermath, it was hard to think of anything but making sure that kind of catastrophic flooding didn’t happen again. But as we rightfully pay attention to flooding, we must also… Read More
A proposal for a regional response to erosion partially caused by sea level rise (SLR) in Hawaii was introduced to the public on March 8 in the form of an Environmental Impact Statement Preparation Notice (EISPN) “Kahana Bay Erosion Mitigation Project Lahaina District, Island of Maui” with a 30-day public response period. Property owners at… Read More
The ongoing deepening of the Charleston Harbor isn’t just letting bigger container ships into port: The work will also allow more salt water to creep up the Ashley and Cooper rivers. The $558 million project to deepen the navigational channel to 52 feet will give South Carolina’s largest port the deepest shipping lines on the… Read More
OXFORD — For the last two summers, campers and other visitors at F.W. Kent Park were met with an empty lake and closed beach during an ongoing restoration project. For a park that attracts a lot of families, that meant fewer patrons the past two years, said Sherry Frantz, who serves as camp host at… Read More
Word spread quickly about the $3.3 million dredging project. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — People who live and work in Tarpon Springs celebrated after they found out a multi-million dollar dredging project that had been put on hold is back on again. Word spread quickly about the $3.3 million dredging project. It had been put on… Read More
The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway reopens after workers for the Army Corps of Engineers opened a temporary channel in Aberdeen. Speech to Text for Tenn-Tom Waterway reopens Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. clear and open for use again,… Read More
Adding more sand to 10 miles of the beach in Nags Head will take a little longer than expected and is now scheduled to be finished in September. Pumping by the dredge Ellis Island is done at the south end of town and bulldozers are wrapping up work near the the Cape Hatteras National Seashore…. Read More