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Lake Okeechobee discharges have stopped to the St. Lucie River and been reduced to the Caloosahatchee River, but the Army Corps of Engineers hasn’t ruled out the possibility of restarting and increasing them. Discharges to the St. Lucie River stopped Saturday and were reduced to the Caloosahatchee River to a daily average of about 650… Read More
The proposed $4.6 billion 2019-21 capital budget introduced Monday by the State House of Representatives includes millions of dollars in funding for projects including the North Shore Levee, school improvements and more in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties. “This is a phenomenal budget for our district. We walked into the legislative session with a deliberate… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are still trying to shake loose money to survey the Cowlitz River this summer, but county officials are getting increasingly antsy about the delay. “We’re flying blind because we do not know what the flood protection levels are” in Castle Rock, Lexington, Longview and Kelso, Axel Swanson, county chief… Read More
DALLAS, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) has received Notice to Proceed for a single-award contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Buffalo District for remediation services required at the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA) site in Parks Township, Pennsylvania. Support includes development of… Read More
A West Virginia company was performing maintenance dredging downstream of the Allegheny River lock chamber in Harrison this week. The work was needed to maintain the 9-foot navigation depth for commercial vessels, said David Heidish, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh. The work is expected to wrap up soon…. Read More
The $10B climate resiliency plan would extend the Manhattan shoreline by as much as 500 feet into the East River. Earlier this month, the first phase of Hudson Yards, a $25 billion neighborhood suspended atop an active rail depot on the western fringes of Midtown Manhattan, opened to the public. It was met with withering… Read More
Nevada Irrigation District’s Combie Reservoir sediment and mercury removal project has been selected as the 2018 Small Project of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Sacramento Section, according to a release. The aim of the NID pilot project is to remove sediment from Combie Reservoir while introducing an innovative mercury recovery process…. Read More
STONE HARBOR – It has been three years since Stone Harbor’s back bay dredging project concluded and the litigation continues. The troubled dewatering process during the dredging cost the contractor, Sevenson Environmental, unplanned expenses, which it wants the borough to fund. The case is in federal court. The dredging effort involved removing 100,000 cubic yards… Read More
SACO — People are flocking to the beach in Saco to check out an unusually large amount of driftwood, an unexpected byproduct of a sand replenishment effort. The Army Corps of Engineers embarked on the second phase of a dredging project in the Saco River in January. Sand dredged from the mouth of the river… Read More
Flooding caused a breach in a levee in Valley, Nebraska during historic flooding earlier this month, but repair work is being done. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers and Omaha District are working to repair Union Dike Levee after it was damaged during high waters. The breach has been closed as work continues to build… Read More
Few of us, however, have ever witnessed anything like 2018’s Hurricane Florence. Those of us who live in coastal areas like my hometown of Wilmington, NC are accustomed to weathering hurricanes. We stock up on batteries, board up windows, and make sure we have enough nonperishable food to last a couple of days if the… Read More
BOGUE BANKS — The $20.1 million beach nourishment stalled a bit late last week because of bad weather and sea conditions, but it’s still on track for completion well ahead of schedule. Work should begin in Emerald Isle by about Wednesday, April 3. The contract deadline for completion is Tuesday, April 30. Greg Rudolph, manager… Read More
DULUTH, MN — $300 million dollars are on the way to help restore the Great Lakes. President Trump made the announcement Thursday night in a reversal of sorts. “I support the great lakes, always have. They’re beautiful and deep. record deepness. and I’m going to get full funding of 300 million dollars for the great… Read More
Boaters and town officials have been on pins and needles this week waiting to hear if the main channel into Popponesset Bay would be dredged. As of The Mashpee Enterprise’s deadline yesterday, the dredge had yet to make it to Popponesset. Because of a restriction on dredging starting Monday, April 1, to protect nesting piping… Read More
PLYMOUTH – According to the Department of Environmental Protection, groundwater contamination from the Cedarville landfill discharged into Cape Cod Bay some time ago. “The contaminants detected in the landfill plume in the 1980s and 1990s, volatile organic compounds, are no longer present in groundwater samples collected from downgradient of the landfill and thus the Cedarville… Read More