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FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo, University of New Hampshire scientists monitor the health of seagrass in the Great Bay in Durham, N.H. Federal officials got an earful of complaints Wednesday night, Feb. 19, 2020, from scores of New Hampshire communities over a plan to further reduce nitrogen in one of the… Read More
Congressman Fred Upton and colleague Bill Huizenga are celebrating a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to include funding in the fiscal year 2020 budget to dredge Holland Harbor. The budget at first did not include the dredging funds, but Upton tells WSJM News he and Huizenga were able to convince the Corps the work… Read More
The Falmouth Marine & Environmental Services Department this month is dredging river and pond channels from Salt Pond to Little Pond with an excavator rented from the Plymouth County government that has an extra-long reach. “The excavator more efficiently removes a greater extent of sand from our clogged channels. This is a cooperative effort between… Read More
U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins and Mark Wingate, deputy district engineer for Programs and Project Management for the Corps’ New Orleans division, held a press conference on Thursday to announce findings from a study done by the Corps on how much dredging the Vermilion River would cost and how effective it would be for residents, according… Read More
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will ask legislators to dedicate $115 million of the $535 million state surplus to coastal restoration and protection projects. Along with almost $131 million in federal revenue sharing from energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, the money would push Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority spending next fiscal year above… Read More
A series of coastal engineering projects aimed at saving Waikiki Beach is underway, and one of the projects that kicked off three months ago is performing well so far. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said it is “very, very happy” with its 95-foot-long sand bag groin — made of 83, 10,000-pound bags… Read More
The days are numbered for the crossover at Jekyll Island’s Corsair Beach Park. Noel Jensen, Jekyll Island Authority chief operations officer, told the JIA Board of Directors that the crossover was meant to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, but with changes to the dune field from hurricanes and the subsequent reestablishment of… Read More
Port Everglades and local elected officials marked the first step in a $437 million expansion to make way for expected massive new cargo ships with a celebratory press conference on Tuesday. “It’s a critical milestone in getting there,” acting port director Glenn Wiltshire said afterwards of the $29 million Congress approved this month to move… Read More
It is a small, but important step. The Army Corps of Engineers is going to spend $1.3 million to design the long-delayed dredging of the San Rafael Canal, one of Marin’s busiest recreational and commercial waterways. It’s been 17 years since the tidal creek was last fully dredged and it shows. The longer maintenance dredging… Read More
U.S. Dredgers Keep America’s Ports and Waterways safe. . . The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) recently completed its historic study of the American maritime industry and national security. Titled “Strengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base,” the study made several key points about America’s Jones Act. The report is historic because it… Read More
Bouchard Transportation’s problems continue to mount. In addition to being the subject of multiple Captain of the Port Orders (see earlier story), the company faces a lawsuit brought on behalf of several Bouchard mariners who assert that they have not been paid for any work performed this year. A complaint filed February 11 in the… Read More
State Sen. Patty Ritchie and Assemblyman Mark Walczyk are applauding Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement of a 20-site dredging project designed to help strengthen shorelines along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River in an effort to protect communities from future flooding. In St. Lawrence County, two projects are planned, dredging the Ogdensburg “City Front Channel”… Read More
The Coastal Resources Commission has given Sunset Beach its approval to dredge about 18 acres, including south Jinks Creek, to a depth deeper than the connecting waters along its eastern border. But the commission’s vote Wednesday during its meeting in Beaufort to approve the Brunswick County town’s variance request, which followed the October 2019 Division… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will devote $85.4 million to deepening the mouth of the river to 50 feet, enabling oceangoing ships to load more grain at terminals upriver. A new project to dredge the Mississippi River near the Gulf of Mexico could boost local prices for corn and soybeans in Minnesota,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for areas in Pool 6 to deposit dredging materials. I suggest an area north of Westfield Golf Course between Prairie Island Road, Pelzer Street and the railroad tracks formerly the Madison Silo property. This marginally unused property with a deep gravel pit that sits inside of the… Read More