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On Thursday the safety committee of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District called for an emergency meeting to address the issue of shoaling in the bay due to severe winter storms. The harbor district, responding to results of soundings performed by the Army Corps of Engineers that found the bay shallower than at… Read More
DESTIN, Fla. – A popular waterway that fishermen in the Panhandle heavily rely on, is continuing to fill with sand. Okaloosa County officials having been working on solutions. The East Pass, located at the mouth of the Destin harbor is still in a state of emergency. For the last three months, Commissioners have fought to… Read More
Winter storms have desposited several feet of silt in the entrance channel to Humboldt Bay. File photo. The entrance to Humboldt Bay Harbor is dangerously shallow at the moment — so shallow that commercial ships are unable to traverse the channel leading to local docks. Commercial fishermen, whose boats don’t draft as much, are still… Read More
Photo Credit: Staff Jacksonville, FL – Jaxport CEO Eric Green said the harbor-deepening project is ahead of schedule and may even beat competitors to the north who are also racing to deepen their ports. Green called it a “photo finish” on Thursday at the State of the Port address but added that it all hinges… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will resume its sand-replenishment project in Long Beach next month.Christina Daly/Herald The Army Corps of Engineers is set to resume work on the second phase of a federally funded beach-protection project next month, after work was paused because of harsh weather and damaged equipment. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company… Read More
Photo: Wikimedia MOMENTUM continues to grow for restoration work on Quincy Bay, and three federal lawmakers added their support last week with a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Even with a growing chorus of supporters, the campaign for a $20 million dredging grant is far from assured, and time is of the… Read More
Dredging is an important industry with its uses in many areas. It is necessary to reclaim and protect a greater amount of coastal land from erosion and flooding, which results in the need for dredging in coastal areas. As the volume of world trade increases, more and more goods are shipped across the sea using… Read More
Wahkiakum County commissioners heard a plea for drainage work near Deep River, decided how to address the latest challenge to their dredging permit process and addressed other issues when they met Tuesday. Wirkkala Road resident Nick Nikkila expressed frustration with drainage issues that cause flooding in that neighborhood. Two culverts and tidegates on Wirkkala Road… Read More
People walk along the sea wall at King’s Beach in Swampscott, past a section that was damaged in the March storms of 2018. (Spenser R. Hasak) SWAMPSCOTT — For the first phase of sea wall repairs, Swampscott could be spending $200,000. Decades of storms and high tides have added to the structural damage of sea… Read More
Dredging operations to remove approximately 150,000 cubic yards of sand from the Sebastian Inlet in Florida began January 21. Ferreira Construction of Stuart, Florida, has been using its 18-inch hydraulic dredge, Lori Hill equipped with Hypack software, to remove sand from the inlet’s sand trap and navigation channel. The material is being placed in two… Read More
Ferreira began dredge operations ahead of schedule on January 21, placing sand on the beach by McLarty Treasure Museum located to the South of the Sebastian Inlet. To date, approximately 10,000 cubic yards of sand have been placed and crews will work their way South, anticipated to progress approximately 1,000 feet a week for the… Read More
The 116th Congress has organized itself and committees are beginning to develop their agendas for the next two years. As a part of this they will often hold a hearing to get input from the public on what issues need to be addressed within the committees’ areas of jurisdiction. On the 7th of February 2019… Read More
The sand on Anna Maria Island’s beaches is a major tourist draw. – Cindy Lane | Sun ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Island beaches are scheduled to get new sand, beginning with a minor repair to Coquina Beach this year, followed by a major project on Coquina Beach and Holmes Beach next year. Sand from the… Read More
QUINCY — Efforts to dredge and restore Quincy Bay got a boost last week when three federal lawmakers urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support a $20 million dredging project. A letter from U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood was sent to R.D. James, assistant secretary of… Read More
Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday, September 14, then inched its way west into South Carolina as a tropical storm later that day. By Saturday morning, more than a million people were without power across NC and SC. The immense size and slow speed of the storm dropped a record 33.9… Read More