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As recently as February, a rowing organization was confident of finding the last $1 million of a total $4.5 million needed to have the Schuylkill dredged or potentially lose regattas. However, the Schuylkill Navy River Restoration Committee, which is overseeing the effort, says it is still short. “We’re almost at the finish line,” said Bonnie… Read More
The project will include the expansion of the Lower Manhattan shoreline and four capital projects devoted to the resiliency of Lower Manhattan neighborhoods On March 14, 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) Project. The project is one of the City’s responses to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy… Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency has declined to compel General Electric to restart dredging in the Hudson River, despite calls from New York officials and environmentalists. EPA Regional Administrator Peter Lopez said Thursday more time and testing are needed to fully assess GE’s $1.7 billion Hudson River cleanup. The federal agency issued… Read More
Glen Cove city officials have expressed concern that Uniondale-based RXR Glen Isle Partners disturbed wetlands during its construction at Garvies Point, though the state Department of Environmental Conservation said development currently complies with approved plans. Three members of the Glen Cove City Council — Joseph Capobianco, Nicholas DiLeo Jr. and Kevin Maccarone — sent a… Read More
Wednesday night and Thursday morning I got ready for the conference call with EPA Region 2 Adminstrator Pete Lopez. Based on the news that Basil Seggos, state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, said the EPA was going to issue General Electric a certificate of completion for the Hudson River Superfund cleanup, I thought I knew… Read More
POINT PLEASANT BEACH – An ocean view is disappearing for some who fought against the Federal Beach Replenishment Project in Point Pleasant Beach. Work began this week to pump sand to the southern sections of Point Pleasant Beach in front of some homes whose owners fought against the project. Two of those owners sued and… Read More
Try to imagine, for a moment, a vast convoy of nearly 1,700 dump trucks rumbling down the highway. And also try to imagine each one of those trucks filled with a load of muddy goo. That is the rough equivalent of all the soup-like sediment that Sean Scarborough’s dredging company removed from the clogged lagoons… Read More
Brick Township officials are developing a Dredging Master Plan that will help residents who are interested in having their lagoons dredged. Dredging in Brick has been a source of some contention in recent years. Some waterfront residents say they pay a premium in property taxes but cannot utilize their waterfront access because lagoons are too… Read More
RYE — The Board of Selectmen met with a state Department of Environmental Services representative to review conservation practices to reduce erosion and prepare for impacts of sea level rise on the town’s coast and coastal estuaries. DES Coastal Resilience Coordinator Kirsten Howard spoke before the board Monday about coastal flooding and the erosion on… Read More
WEST OLIVE — “Are there any positives?” It was a serious question from Ottawa County Commissioner Francisco Garcia during Tuesday’s public hearing about a proposed dredging project on the Grand River. Dan O’Keefe, a Michigan State University Extension educator, had just outlined numerous threats the project would pose to habitat and aquatic species as other… Read More
SOMERSET — Because of erosion that has caused damage to them, the stairs in the area of the bluffs that go down to the beach at Pierce Beach Park have been closed. Town Planner Nancy Durfee said the wooden platform of the stairs caved in because the material under it eroded away. Durfee said a… Read More
POINTE COUPEE PARISH, LA (WAFB) – Since 2011, newly appointed Pointe Coupee Parish President Major Thibaut has been part of the process to restore False River. The sights and sounds of water, in sort of a cadence, crashing into piers is what most people in the community like. Over 30,000 acres in Pointe Coupee Parish… Read More
Time is not on the side of the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk. With the Indiana legislature preparing to finalize the state’s biennial budget this month, advocates working to save the riverwalk from further erosion and the resulting damage said receiving $1 million in state funds now toward beach nourishment and a study on long-term solutions… Read More
Construction on the controversial $516,000 Flagler County Coastal Wetlands Restoration Project began on Feb. 13 on 100 acres of decades-old dragline ditches in the area of the Intracoastal Waterway, parallel to Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area and parts of Flagler Beach. Like the “turbidity” it produces when an excavator demolishes and rebuilds the ditches as… Read More
“They start at 6 a.m., if you can believe it,” my friend told me with a hint of frustration. This was his neighborhood, and we were both gawking at a huge pile-driver sitting atop the dune across from the Turtle Shack in Flagler Beach. The machine is being used to sink pillars 30 feet down… Read More