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The Department of Homeland Security says that its FY 2021 budget request “sustains the most critical Coast Guard operations and continues the Service’s highest priority recapitalization efforts for cutters, boats, aircraft, systems, and infrastructure.” The FY 2021 funding request continues efforts on the Polar Security Cutter (PSC) program to meet growing demands in the Polar… Read More
Oregon appears on a collision course with federal regulators whose environmental review of what would be the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas export terminal is replete with factual errors, missing data, and a lax reading of environmental law, according to state agencies. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday will announce whether it will… Read More
Buffalo, NY— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has received $91,256,500 in the Fiscal Year 2020 Work Plan, to complete projects across the District’s area of responsibility. This is in addition to the $24,562,000 the District has already received in the Fiscal Year 2020 President’s Budget. “This is a critical time for investments… Read More
An excavator and construction truck sit parked on Sandy Pond Beach on Wednesday morning near Watertown. Oak Orchard Harbor and Johnson Creek are among 20 dredging sites announced Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the state’s $300 million effort to build resiliency along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. With the ongoing… Read More
Coney Island Creek is the proposed site for a New York City ferry that would link lower Manhattan and Coney Island, but because the location is too shallow, it would require dredging. An environmental impact statement recently completed of the creeks shows high levels of mercury, lead and other toxins. Natural Resources Protective Association Executive… Read More
atlantic beach — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got off to a fast start this week, as sand was piped to and spread from the Circle development district to the 300 block of Ocean Ridge Road as of Friday morning. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said the… Read More
February is traditionally downtime for beach towns, but each year the shoreline along some stretches of North Carolina’s central and southern coast is anything but quiet as crews work around the clock to pump millions of cubic yards of sand in a never-ending fight against erosion. Early last week, bulldozers and pipe haulers began crawling… Read More
A potential beach nourishment project in Avon took a step forward at the February 4 meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC), as the Board unanimously selected contractor Coastal Science and Engineering to submit a contract for a feasibility study. County Manager Bobby Outten explained to the Board that the Capital Improvements Planning… Read More
Mammoet’s team has successfully completed the second phase of the relocation of several shipping container cranes for Hutchison Ports ICAVE as part of a planned port expansion in Veracruz, Mexico. Mammoet used 56 axle lines of SPMT to transport two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and ten rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs). The completion of the crane relocations… Read More
Operation of America’s first commercial offshore wind power farm now will not happen in 2022, as feared after federal officials said Feb. 11 that they expect a 16-month delay in issuing a final environmental impact statement for the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts waters. “While we need to analyze what a longer permitting timeline will… Read More
The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released a revised permitting timeline for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project. The timeline indicates the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Vineyard Wind I project will issued in December, over a year later than its previous target of August 2019. BOEM… Read More
In this photo provided by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards sticking a large pin in a mural of Louisiana’s coast, in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, to show the location of the Maurepas Swamp. A council created to allocate money from water pollution fines paid after the… Read More
For ports, terminals and stakeholders along two of the South’s major waterways, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2020 work plan, released February 10, marks a major milestone in the campaign to deepen ship channels to 50 feet. The Corps’ 2020 work plan includes $85.35 million to initiate the first phase of deepening the Mississippi… Read More
The Town of Fort Myers Beach is bringing on a consultant to study the erosion of the beach specifically in the area near Bowditch Point Park to Lynn Hall Park. The study is the first step in the laying the groundwork for an application to the county for funds to conduct beach restoration as has… Read More
The multi-pronged project, anticipated to cost at least $2 million, is set to start near the end of the month and could be completed in about 30 days. DESTIN – After almost two years-worth of delays, the dredging of sand that clogs up the East Pass navigation channel next to Destin is about to get… Read More