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SOMERSET — Because of erosion that has caused damage to them, the stairs in the area of the bluffs that go down to the beach at Pierce Beach Park have been closed. Town Planner Nancy Durfee said the wooden platform of the stairs caved in because the material under it eroded away. Durfee said a… Read More
POINTE COUPEE PARISH, LA (WAFB) – Since 2011, newly appointed Pointe Coupee Parish President Major Thibaut has been part of the process to restore False River. The sights and sounds of water, in sort of a cadence, crashing into piers is what most people in the community like. Over 30,000 acres in Pointe Coupee Parish… Read More
Time is not on the side of the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk. With the Indiana legislature preparing to finalize the state’s biennial budget this month, advocates working to save the riverwalk from further erosion and the resulting damage said receiving $1 million in state funds now toward beach nourishment and a study on long-term solutions… Read More
Construction on the controversial $516,000 Flagler County Coastal Wetlands Restoration Project began on Feb. 13 on 100 acres of decades-old dragline ditches in the area of the Intracoastal Waterway, parallel to Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area and parts of Flagler Beach. Like the “turbidity” it produces when an excavator demolishes and rebuilds the ditches as… Read More
“They start at 6 a.m., if you can believe it,” my friend told me with a hint of frustration. This was his neighborhood, and we were both gawking at a huge pile-driver sitting atop the dune across from the Turtle Shack in Flagler Beach. The machine is being used to sink pillars 30 feet down… Read More
The City of Marco Island is making sure it’s ready for hurricane season by adding sand to its beaches. “It’s just protective,” Marcia Faircloth said. “It’s just preventative, and you need that.” Construction crews are dredging nearly 175,000 cubic yards of sand. This creates a slope, since the beach is flat right now. It also… Read More
From the St. Johns River Water Management District Navigational access near the mouth of the Apopka-Beauclair Canal may be limited as the St. Johns River Water Management District enters the final stages of a sump dredge project designed to help improve water quality in Lake Apopka. Additional dredging will also improve navigational access in the… Read More
Sarasota city manager says shoreline now better able to withstand storms. More than 200,000 cubic yards of sand – enough to fill 1,500 backyard swimming pools – now rests on Lido Beach following completion of a New Pass dredging project that began in November. The $3.9 million project pumped sand from the waterway that separates… Read More
Dorchester Holdings of Tampa says muck dumped from Lake Maggiore in 2004 has contaminated its property near Gandy Boulevard with arsenic ST. PETERSBURG — For two years starting in 2004, as part of a massive $13-million cleanup of Lake Maggiore, trucks hauled and dumped 1.3 million cubic yards of sediment from the lake bottom to… Read More
Today Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a new supplemental disaster appropriations bill: The previous version, HR 268, stalled in the Senate over complications with funding Puerto Rico and other issues. The new bill, HR 2157, does support Puerto Rico, but it also includes $3 billion to address urgent needs resulting from… Read More
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WPMI) — A proposed Senate Bill could put Dauphin Island in a much better position to prevent beach erosion. SB215 will have a hearing on Thursday morning in Montgomery, sponsored by Senator David Sessions. In a nutshell, the bill proposes that the sand removed from dredging in the Mobile River would be… Read More
Exclusive DredgeWire Press Release On November 19, 2018, Gator Dredging initiated construction on a four-year $18 million lake restoration project for Pinellas County’s Lake Seminole. Lake Seminole, the second largest lake located in Pinellas County, was created in the late 1940s by damming off the estuaries of Long Bayou fed by the tidal flows of… Read More
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a mix of tools and machinery is hard at work in a part of South Carolina known as a place for fun and relaxation: the coastline in and around Myrtle Beach. The area beaches are part of South Carolina’s 60-mi.-long Grand Strand, a series of seaside communities… Read More
ST. PAUL — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is gearing up to complete the Marsh Lake Ecosystem Restoration Project this year. The Corps’ contractor RTS Shearing LLC, of Jamestown, North Dakota, has temporarily paused construction efforts due to high water levels within the Minnesota River and Marsh Lake area and the… Read More
The plan would carve a 50-foot-wide, 7-foot-deep, 22.5-mile stretch of the river between Fulton Street in Grand Rapids and the Bass River inlet in Eastmanville. WEST OLIVE, Mich. (GRAND HAVEN TRIBUNE) – “Are there any positives?” It was a serious question from Ottawa County Commissioner Francisco Garcia during Tuesday’s public hearing about a proposed dredging… Read More