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By Brad Devereaux | bdeverea@mlive.com KALAMAZOO, MI — The city of Kalamazoo will spend an additional $560,768.50 for dredging meant to alleviate flooding following heavy rain events. The Kalamazoo City Commission approved the additional cost at its Feb. 17 meeting. The expenditure is in addition to the more than $1 million the city approved in… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers dredge Currituck works in the Stage Harbor entrance channel. Although the dredge was able to clear shoals from the much-used waterways, it was unable to complete the job due to funding. Officials are seeking $500,000 at the March 7 special town meeting to do further dredging of the channel in… Read More
A restoration project that has been on the books for 20 years finally got funding Wednesday. The state will soon break ground on the Maurepas Swamp diversion. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority plans to build a channel from the Mississippi River near Garyville to the Maurepas Swamp, an area south of Lake Maurepas between… Read More
The Vilano Beach renourishment has been greenlighted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which hopes for construction to start this fall. The project aims to restore the dunes and beach to pre-hurricane levels and combat erosion, storms and sea level rise on a 2.6-mile stretch from Ocean Grande Drive to an area near Gardner… Read More
A woman sits atop a sand berm as a surfer enters the water just south of the San Clemente Pier in San Clemente as a king tide moves on shore Friday morning, January 10, 2020. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) A two-decades-long plan to bring more sand to San Clemente’s depleted shoreline has… Read More
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One of the Army Corps’ primary missions is flood risk management and reducing risk from flood events. The Bureau of Reclamation’s dams also provide flood control benefits in many cases, but the agency’s mission is focused on water storage to irrigate farms and ranches, supply drinking water, enhance fish and wildlife habitats, and create public… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s FY 2021 budget request for the Maritime Administration includes $300 million to “address critical recapitalization issues for state maritime academy school ships under the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) program.” However, some other programs have done less well — notably $0 is requested for the Small Shipyard Grants program. Overall,… Read More
The Department of Homeland Security says that its FY 2021 budget request “sustains the most critical Coast Guard operations and continues the Service’s highest priority recapitalization efforts for cutters, boats, aircraft, systems, and infrastructure.” The FY 2021 funding request continues efforts on the Polar Security Cutter (PSC) program to meet growing demands in the Polar… Read More
Oregon appears on a collision course with federal regulators whose environmental review of what would be the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas export terminal is replete with factual errors, missing data, and a lax reading of environmental law, according to state agencies. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday will announce whether it will… Read More
Buffalo, NY— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has received $91,256,500 in the Fiscal Year 2020 Work Plan, to complete projects across the District’s area of responsibility. This is in addition to the $24,562,000 the District has already received in the Fiscal Year 2020 President’s Budget. “This is a critical time for investments… Read More
An excavator and construction truck sit parked on Sandy Pond Beach on Wednesday morning near Watertown. Oak Orchard Harbor and Johnson Creek are among 20 dredging sites announced Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the state’s $300 million effort to build resiliency along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. With the ongoing… Read More
Coney Island Creek is the proposed site for a New York City ferry that would link lower Manhattan and Coney Island, but because the location is too shallow, it would require dredging. An environmental impact statement recently completed of the creeks shows high levels of mercury, lead and other toxins. Natural Resources Protective Association Executive… Read More
atlantic beach — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got off to a fast start this week, as sand was piped to and spread from the Circle development district to the 300 block of Ocean Ridge Road as of Friday morning. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said the… Read More
February is traditionally downtime for beach towns, but each year the shoreline along some stretches of North Carolina’s central and southern coast is anything but quiet as crews work around the clock to pump millions of cubic yards of sand in a never-ending fight against erosion. Early last week, bulldozers and pipe haulers began crawling… Read More