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BULLHEAD CITY — The dredging of Sunshine Marina has, for the most part, been completed but work still remains before the northern entrance to Arizona Veterans Memorial Park will be reopened to vehicles. The dredging project began in early December with hopes of being completed by the start of 2025. The maintenance project, contained in… Read More
Cruise lines are pouring increasing sums into private islands that give them more control over the guest experience. Here’s how MSC spent $500 million transforming a dredging site into a destination. Source
OAK ISLAND, NC — The Oak Island Town Council held a special meeting today to discuss the beach nourishment project. The project was set to begin this January, but bids from dredging companies came back too high, exceeding the town’s $40 million budget. During the meeting, the council reviewed options and continued negotiations with the… Read More
A dredging project at the Kaw River Water Treatment Plant could close a portion of the river for up to two months sometime this year, but the exact details of when that work might happen are still up in the air. The Lawrence City Commission recently approved a $510,000 agreement with Veit & Company Inc…. Read More
The move would bar new oil and gas leases along the Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast and portions of the northern Bering Sea, two people familiar with the plans said. President Joe Biden will remove roughly 625 million acres of U.S. oceans from potential oil and gas drilling before he… Read More
More than 130,000 cubic yards of sand have been restored as part of a $25 million effort to protect Route 1 and combat severe erosion at Indian River Inlet. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has made significant progress in its emergency dredging and beach nourishment project at the north side of Indian… Read More
A project to place sand along a 2.5-mile (four-kilometre) stretch of beach south of Florida’s Sebastian Inlet is scheduled to begin during the week of Monday, January 6, the Sebastian Inlet District said recently. The plans call for hydraulically dredging approximately 215,000 cubic yards (164,000 cubic metres) of beach-compatible sand from a designated sand trap… Read More
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Nearly a million cubic yards of sand will be put down between 15th and 45th streets at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront as part of a $20.2 million beach replenishment project, the first time the city has undertaken such a project in more than five years. The project, beginning this week… Read More
North Huntingdon’s Indian Lake Park is in need of cleaning — removing the silt building up in the lake along Clay Pike in the southern end of the township. The North Huntingdon commissioners recently awarded an $18,500 contract to KU Resources Inc. to conduct a survey of the underwater depth of the lake, plans for… Read More
BETHANY BEACH, DE — The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has reported substantial advancements in the emergency dredging and beach nourishment project underway on the north side of the Indian River Inlet. Initiated in late November, the initiative aims to restore the heavily eroded beach and dunes, providing long-term protection to critical infrastructure, including… Read More
STOCKBRIDGE — Groundwork is underway on a potential dredging project that would remove invasive weeds from Stockbridge Bowl. Town Administrator Michael Canales is on the case now, having been directed by the Select Board last September to take the reins of a long-delayed project that could cost $2 million. In a recent update for the Select Board,… Read More
In RealClearEnergy, AWO President & CEO Jennifer Carpenter urges EPA to deny California’s request for a waiver to enforce CARB’s CHC rule – a rule that “puts mariners’ lives at risk…and jeopardizes the stability of our nation’s supply chain.” Read more.
TARPON SPRINGS — City commissioners expressed dissatisfaction with the $5.2 million asking price on a spoil site for river dredging, but they ultimately agreed to finance the purchase through issuance of a 10-year loan because voters approved of the purchase in a Nov. 5 referendum. The vacant property, owned by Anclote Properties and recently used… Read More
By Reide Corbett, Ph.D. Anyone who has visited the shores of the Outer Banks for more than a season has certainly seen the dramatic changes that occur across these narrow deposits of sand. The changes in these shifting sands along the 200-mile stretch of barrier islands aren’t anything new or unique to the region. In… Read More
By Lorraine Mirabella Andrew Parlock envisions a corner of a former embroidery factory in Hollins Market coming to life with engineers, spacecraft parts and technology. It’s part of a larger vision for his small startup to begin shipping cargo to space in a matter of years. Parlock, a self-described space nerd and former Northrop Grumman Space… Read More