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By Paula Gardner | PaulaGardner@mlive.com Congress will get a chance to weigh a bill that would offer Michigan’s shoreline communities access to $300 million in a low-interest revolving loan fund. The effort is important, said U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, because rising water levels and coastal erosion in the Great Lakes pose what he called a… Read More
By Bryan Renbaum, MarylandReporter – Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined clean-water advocates on Wednesday to declare their support for emergency legislation that would prohibit Maryland from waiving a water-quality certification in a settlement agreement with energy company Exelon for a 50-year federal license to operate the Conowingo Dam. The legislation would effectively compel the state… Read More
Through the winter we have watched the excavators dredging muck from the bed of Rosemary Lake, removing some of the pollutants that have filtered in over the years (decades? centuries?). Earlier in the process, the drained lake was a magnet for birds, and herons, egrets, and even a bald eagle were spotted hunting fish in… Read More
Kiesa Kay Special to The Gardner News The spillway needs work, and in addition, Gardner Lake residents have expressed concerns for more than 15 years about dredging the lake, which involves an additional action plan and action steps. Although the City of Gardner owns the lake, most residences are in the county. “DWR regulations do… Read More
ENGLEWOOD — Boulder Pointe condominium owners are among the Manasota Key property owners celebrating the start of the beach nourishment project this week. For the first time in a decade or more, Boulder Pointe now has a dry sandy beach and not simply wet sand and a large pile riprap rocks along its Gulf shoreline…. Read More
(The Center Square) – The Florida House on Wednesday unanimously approved the Clean Waterways Act and a bill requiring sea-level studies for public projects, adopting landmark environmental legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law. Senate Bill 712, the 111-page Clean Waterways Act sponsored by Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Rockledge, was approved by the… Read More
SANTA BARBARA—The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission was briefed on several significant happenings at their Feb. 20 meeting. Items on the agenda included a briefing about discussions for a possible navy ship visit to the harbor, fuel dock renovations and dredging. Possible Navy Ship Visit New Waterfront Director Mike Wiltshire delivered a report on a recent… Read More
Susan Layton Chief, Planning and Policy Branch Norfolk District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The purpose of this presentation is to provide details and receive feedback on the Tentatively Selected Plan for the Florida Keys Coastal Storm Risk Management Study. The study just recently passed the Tentatively Selected Plan milestone and a Draft Feasibility Report… Read More
The maritime industry has been deeply affected as a result of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus and its impacts to Chinese manufacturing and logistics services. Ocean carriers have been forced to cancel services (“blanked sailings”) to and from China and the United States. The Federal Maritime Commission has been monitoring levels of blanked sailings… Read More
HOLDEN, Mass. – We were standing on the banks of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the real Mississippi River is halfway across the continent. We were in fact in the huge warehouse-sized laboratories above the Louisiana River Basin Scale, which was shocking to restore the scale to 1/65, right… Read More
DOVER — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District announced Monday the dredging plan for the Delaware Bay will be submitted to Congress for authorization. The recommendations call dredging sand from the bay to construct a dune and berm system at Bowers Beach, South Bowers Beach, Slaughter Beach, Prime Hook Beach and Lewes Beach… Read More
Insurance remains the primary tool for managing climate-related risk. But for how long? Despite indications that real estate asset managers and investors have begun taking steps to manage climate uncertainties more proactively, as reported in the Climate Risk and Real Estate Investment Decision-Making report from ULI and Heitman, interviews conducted with leading industry figures over… Read More
The Johnson County Fiscal Court and the City of Paintsville, along with The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), held a public meeting in the Johnson Central High School gymnasium during the evening of Tuesday, March 3 concerning the upcoming Section 202 Johnson County Flood Risk Management Project. USACE staff presented an overview of their… Read More
A submerged breakwater system proposed to lessen beach erosion in South Carolina won’t pop up offshore anytime soon. No one is sure of their exact design or where they would have to go to be effective. Or what such devices would do to the environment up and down the coast. They don’t know how deep… Read More
This Jan. 16, 2020 photo shows the end of the Ventnor, N.J. boardwalk as seen from Margate, N.J., where a group of residents wants the city to build its own boardwalk. Proponents of building the boardwalk along the beach in Margate, are accusing the city of using “fear tactics” by claiming a walkway would make… Read More