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By Eugene “Jesse” Nash IV, Capital News Service Maryland Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Cockeysville, has introduced a bipartisan bill that would fund a project to produce a digital map of all 95,000 miles of the U.S. coastline. Coastal communities like Baltimore and Ocean City would benefit from the collection of geographic data about the nation’s coasts… Read More
The Port Tampa Bay dredging project to make it possible for larger ships to use the facility is done, and it’s a year ahead of schedule, port officials said. The Big Bend Channel Expansion project began in October and was supposed to take 18 months, Port Tampa Bay officials said Monday, but it was completed… Read More
The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was a seemingly invincible bulwark against flooding. But now, 11 months after the Army Corps of Engineers completed one of the largest public works projects in world history, the agency says the system will stop providing… Read More
RAYMONDVILLE, RGV – Fears that President Trump would swipe the money set aside to dredge the Port Mansfield ship channel in order to build a border wall have been allayed. Willacy County Navigation District learned last week that the $17 million earmarked for dredging operations was safely deposited with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…. Read More
WESTERLY — Town staff members will continue to work on obtaining permits for a large-scale dredge of Winnapaug Pond and hope that local funds materialize to match federal grants, officials said this week. An approximately $2.1 million dredging grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service expired Thursday. The town is seeking… Read More
As recently as February, a rowing organization was confident of finding the last $1 million of a total $4.5 million needed to have the Schuylkill dredged or potentially lose regattas. However, the Schuylkill Navy River Restoration Committee, which is overseeing the effort, says it is still short. “We’re almost at the finish line,” said Bonnie… Read More
The project will include the expansion of the Lower Manhattan shoreline and four capital projects devoted to the resiliency of Lower Manhattan neighborhoods On March 14, 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) Project. The project is one of the City’s responses to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy… Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency has declined to compel General Electric to restart dredging in the Hudson River, despite calls from New York officials and environmentalists. EPA Regional Administrator Peter Lopez said Thursday more time and testing are needed to fully assess GE’s $1.7 billion Hudson River cleanup. The federal agency issued… Read More
Glen Cove city officials have expressed concern that Uniondale-based RXR Glen Isle Partners disturbed wetlands during its construction at Garvies Point, though the state Department of Environmental Conservation said development currently complies with approved plans. Three members of the Glen Cove City Council — Joseph Capobianco, Nicholas DiLeo Jr. and Kevin Maccarone — sent a… Read More
Wednesday night and Thursday morning I got ready for the conference call with EPA Region 2 Adminstrator Pete Lopez. Based on the news that Basil Seggos, state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, said the EPA was going to issue General Electric a certificate of completion for the Hudson River Superfund cleanup, I thought I knew… Read More
POINT PLEASANT BEACH – An ocean view is disappearing for some who fought against the Federal Beach Replenishment Project in Point Pleasant Beach. Work began this week to pump sand to the southern sections of Point Pleasant Beach in front of some homes whose owners fought against the project. Two of those owners sued and… Read More
Try to imagine, for a moment, a vast convoy of nearly 1,700 dump trucks rumbling down the highway. And also try to imagine each one of those trucks filled with a load of muddy goo. That is the rough equivalent of all the soup-like sediment that Sean Scarborough’s dredging company removed from the clogged lagoons… Read More
Brick Township officials are developing a Dredging Master Plan that will help residents who are interested in having their lagoons dredged. Dredging in Brick has been a source of some contention in recent years. Some waterfront residents say they pay a premium in property taxes but cannot utilize their waterfront access because lagoons are too… Read More
RYE — The Board of Selectmen met with a state Department of Environmental Services representative to review conservation practices to reduce erosion and prepare for impacts of sea level rise on the town’s coast and coastal estuaries. DES Coastal Resilience Coordinator Kirsten Howard spoke before the board Monday about coastal flooding and the erosion on… Read More
WEST OLIVE — “Are there any positives?” It was a serious question from Ottawa County Commissioner Francisco Garcia during Tuesday’s public hearing about a proposed dredging project on the Grand River. Dan O’Keefe, a Michigan State University Extension educator, had just outlined numerous threats the project would pose to habitat and aquatic species as other… Read More