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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday extended its No Sail Order for all cruise ships. “We are working with the cruise line industry to address the health and safety of crew at sea as well as communities surrounding U.S. cruise ship points of entry,” said CDC Director Robert Redfield. “The measures we… Read More
Annova LNG received the air quality permit by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The commission considered the application by Annova LNG during an online meeting, granting an air quality permit for the project. Additionally, TCEQ considered rehearing requests filed by the project opponents. However, the commission turned down all these requests. Annova LNG project… Read More
WESTERLY — Plans to dredge Winnapaug Pond encountered a snag this week when members of the Town Council expressed surprise that a referendum may be required as a condition for borrowing funds for the project from the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank. On Monday, Town Manager J. Mark Rooney drew the council’s attention to a March… Read More
By ecoRI News staff The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has awarded funding for seven habitat restoration projects in the 17th year of its Rhode Island Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Trust Fund. CRMC approved the funding at a meeting last month. A number of the projects have a resiliency focus this year,… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is proposing to construct a habitat rehabilitation project at the head of Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River, located in Pierce County, Wisconsin, using material dredged from the Mississippi River. The Corps released its draft Environmental Assessment for the project today at: www.mvp.usace.army.mil/Home/PublicNotices.aspx… Read More
Serving 8.1 million residents and millions of visitors in 16 counties, the South Florida Water Management District does just what its name implies: control water. That means providing flood control when there’s too much water, drinking supplies when there’s not enough and restoring as much of the area’s natural water systems as having all those… Read More
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org With Floridians focused on surviving the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to significantly expand an underwater dump site off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. The site would be used to dump material dredged during the upcoming $437-million Port Everglades harbor deepening project and unspecified “future proposed… Read More
Due to increasing statewide costs to combat coronavirus, Flagler County officials are worried they may be on the hook for $6 million dollars to complete the next phase of the dune restoration project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is spearheading the nearly $17.5 million project. The federal government is responsible for almost $11.4 million… Read More
Covid-19 has cut short a dredging operation by contractor Manson Construction in San Diego, which was set to remove 400,000 cubic yards of sand, and has now wrapped up with only 250,000 completed. The work at Oceanside harbor was also impacted by heavy weather conditions, with rough seas and the march rains combining with Covid-19… Read More
In early February, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its fiscal year 2020 (FY 2020) work plan for Civil Works appropriations, which included $700,000 for the Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design (PED) of a deepening and widening project at Mobile Harbor, Alabama, and $274,300,000 for the federal portion of construction. The FY 2019 Corps work… Read More
Oceaneering International Services (OISL), a subsidiary of Oceaneering International, has got a contract to complete seabed route and debris clearance for the Moray East wind farm project in the Moray Firth, Scotland. The contract was awarded by Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited (MOWEL). OISL will provide a full suite of services for the project, including… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on a draft programmatic Environmental Assessment, or EA, it released today, April 8. Corps officials are accepting comments now through May 8. The draft EA focuses on the Corps’ floodplain forest management activities along the Mississippi River from Upper St…. Read More
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) — Gov. Kay Ivey’s office announced that $24 million will be spent on four coastal restoration projects in southern Alabama. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awarded the funding from its Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund. According to the governor, the projects were developed by state and federal resource agencies and are designed… Read More
Fort Island Gulf Beach’s closure due to the COVID-19 public health emergency has provided Citrus County Parks and Recreation an opportunity to move up a project that had been planned for later this spring. The $300,000 beach sand nourishment project commenced April 6 and is funded through capital improvement funds. Earth Tech Enterprises Inc. was… Read More
ENGLEWOOD — The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t slowed the restoration of Manasota Key’s critically eroded shoreline. The sand renourishment of the Gulf shoreline along the Charlotte County portion of Manasota Key is complete. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, the contractor, has now begun restoring beach sand along the Sarasota County portion of Manasota Key from… Read More