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HICKMAN, KY — The rising Mississippi River could cause a problem for barges traveling through our area. The river’s levels at the Hickman-Fulton County Riverport are expected to crest at 48.5 feet next week. “It could affect us because of the wheat harvest,” said river port director Greg Curlin. “That’s usually when we start harvesting… Read More
Beaches. Fixing them, maintaining them and paying for it all years into the future will likely be topics of conversation, study and — possibly — an election in early 2020 as the town advances toward a new shoreline management plan. The first slice appears in the town’s budget proposals for fiscal year 2020 in the… Read More
Louisiana crews drive 110-foot poles into the Bayou Chene channel bottom as they prepare to sink a barge as a flood-control mechanism. State and federal officials are battling historic flooding. The Army Corps of Engineers is struggling to control historic flows at the southern terminus of the Mississippi River even as it takes unprecedented steps… Read More
SURFSIDE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – The town is looking to pay for a roughly $10 million replacement to one of its most iconic landmarks: the fishing pier. The wooden pier, which was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, will be replaced by a concrete one. “As we have (U.S.) Highway 17 being done, don’t forget… Read More
Local county taxes — especially hotel accommodation taxes — play an important role in funding coastal projects all around the aAmerican shoreline. Charlotte County, Florida — hime o Manasota Key and Don Pedro-Knight Island — prove an example for effective local coastal spending. Coastal projects making the cut this year is Charlotte County ranged from… Read More
Boaters can’t tie up at slip until silt is trucked to land-based disposal site The City of Saint John is scrambling to make arrangements for visiting boaters this summer after a plan to dredge contaminated soil at Market Slip fell through. No companies responded to a request for tenders this month to dredge 3,000 cubic… Read More
Nags Head’s $42.7 million beach renourishment project moved into its next phase as contractors started pumping and moving sand along the northern end of town. But work off South Nags Head has ground to a halt temporarily. The Dredge Liberty Island began working Tuesday near the Curlew Street public beach access at about milepost 11.5,… Read More
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