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The regional water board is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over dredge and fill operations along the Los Angeles River in Glendale and the Sepulveda Basin that allegedly violated the Clean Water Act, officials announced Thursday. The lawsuit, lodged Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, alleges… Read More
The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2017 (FY 2017) includes $4.620 billion in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). “The 2017 Civil Works budget for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reflects the Administration’s priorities to support and improve the Nation’s economy, protect the American… Read More
AMBITIOUS plans could set the course for a new ferry route linking Penryn, Falmouth and Truro. The proposal to dredge a new channel in the Penryn River made waves among councillors who were given a presentation about the scheme. Maritime consultant David Pollard said after addressing Penryn Town Council on Monday night that the proposals… Read More
A Republican proposal to change how Wisconsin shoreline development is regulated has cleared the state Assembly. Assembly lawmakers passed the bill Tuesday by a 57-39 vote. The measure changes how the state’s Department of Natural Resources issues permits for shoreline development and loosens requirements for what property owners must provide the state to secure a… Read More
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying industrial commodities, slipped to another all-time low on Tuesday on worries about vessel oversupply and slowing global demand. The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell four points or 1.3… Read More
Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca Dye will lead an FMC initiative to work with the private sector to find commercial solutions to congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The commission voted unanimously to issue issue an order directing Dye to work with companies to form “supply chain integration teams” to address problems… Read More
Can the good will of government control the properties of a barrier island? This question was raised over the weekend at Plum Island Point when local leaders met with homeowners near the Reservation Terrace section of the island. Residents are concerned that since the north and south jetties were completed recently, erosion has increased on… Read More
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO), a five state partnership of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, released an ambitious and wide-ranging set of information on the vast natural resources and economically-important uses of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, which contribute to the health and vibrancy of the region’s coastal communities. The analytical… Read More
Jackson County is no longer sponsoring the Lake George project. In a split vote, supervisors decided Monday to take Jackson County’s name off the official permit request for the project, which proposes damming a tributary to the free-flowing Pascagoula River to create two lakes for water reservoirs and recreation. It’s a George County project and… Read More
A “catastrophic” outbreak of disease, not mud churned up by the $205 million “Deep Dredge” at PortMiami, killed coral in Government Cut, according to a report issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The two-year-long dredging raised concerns after biologists and environmentalists began documenting damage to coral and seagrass struggling in cloudy water as… Read More
Minister of Roads and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced policies for developing logistics hubs using 350 ring roads; development of 2,000 ports along 14,000 km of coast and introduction of e-tolling across 360 toll plazas. Gadkari told reporters at the Make in India Week the money was not a problem in rolling out the… Read More
A documentary about flooding on the Somerset Levels has reignited old debates about the effectiveness of dredging to reduce flooding. An episode of the BBC programme Countryfile series aired on Sunday featured presenter Tom Heap looking at how dredging could impact on water management, for good and bad. Somerset Rivers Authority chairman John Osman defended… Read More
The Port of Hong Kong is losing its prominent place on global trade maps. The city’s port, which was the world’s busiest as recently as a decade ago, slid to No. 5 after a steep drop in container business last year. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The sand we spread our towels on in visits to the Delaware beach towns was once at the bottom of the sea, before engineers pumped it onto the shoreline in a wave of beach replenishment projects. That work has gone on so long that scientists have acquired good guesses of just how much available sand… Read More
Pernem police have registered a first information report (FIR) against officials of Kiranpani Port Private Limited for allegedly dredging River Tiracol at Keri without valid permissions from competent authorities, Pernem police inspector (PI) Devendra Gad said. The FIR has been registered based on a complaint filed by Sachin Parab and citizens of Keri, Tiracol, Paliem… Read More