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SEATTLE — Dredging of the 11-mile Swinomish Navigation Channel will begin the week of Sept. 9, making it safer for local boaters to navigate. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will oversee the marine safety and access improvement project, being performed by contractor American Construction Co. Inc., of Tacoma, Wash. Mechanical clamshell dredging is expected… Read More
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the award of $421 million to a group of states and organizations—including North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, the N.C. Coastal Federation, and the Nature Conservancy—who partnered to secure the funding. It is the largest grant in the history of the EPA that is dedicated to using… Read More
Florida is embarking on an ambitious ecological restoration project in the Everglades: building a reservoir large enough to secure the state’s water supply. In February 2023, a large digger broke ground on a multi-billion dollar project that has been decades in the making: building a reservoir the size of Manhattan Island. The reservoir, which is part of an… Read More
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It is estimated that about 100 cars are sitting at the bottom of the rivers around Pittsburgh. In the past couple of days, tons of debris, much of it from cars, has been removed. Mangled monstrosities sitting at the bottom of the Monongahela River near the Mon Wharf were removed on Tuesday…. Read More
A sand shoal on the south side of the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant Beach is scraped away by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge Murden. Source
SeaLevel Construction has started on the second phase of the Houma Navigation Canal Lock Complex, which aims to facilitate ship travel, support wetlands and protect the area from storm surge. Dive Brief: Phase two of the Houma Navigation Canal Lock Complex broke ground on Aug. 7, according to a news release from the Louisiana Coastal Protection and… Read More
BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -The relationship between rip currents and beach renourishment has been a hot topic. Bay County Tourist Development Council Executive Director Dan Rowe said beach renourishment plays a key role in maintaining the health of the beach. “Panama City Beach has had an active beach renourishment program going back to the 90s,”… Read More
The Flagler County, FL Coastal Storm Risk Management Project in Flagler Beach is quickly advancing to the north and nearing beach fill operations around the Flagler Beach Pier. Once all areas south of the pier have been completed, the contractor Weeks Marine, Inc. will need to relocate equipment north of the pier for beach fill… Read More
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — If you’re out along Fort Myers Beach, you might see machines and workers out behind Pink Shell Beach Resort. They’re pumping sand from the Gulf onto the beach starting on the north end of the island. The project officially began over the weekend after being delayed when Tropical Storm Debby hit… Read More
NARRAGANSETT – Dredging the Narrow River to unclog the river’s mouth and replenish Narragansett Town Beach with sand could cost between $2.6 million and $7.2 million, according to an engineering firm hired by the town to study the project. Engineers from Foth Infrastructure & Environment LLC presented their findings from a dredging and beach nourishment feasibility study to the… Read More
The state is closing in on a settlement over the future of Louisiana’s biggest ever coastal restoration project, the controversial Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a state official said Monday, but the secret negotiations have raised questions over the scope of the work and the nearly $3 billion in funding approved for it. The unprecedented project has been… Read More
The ghosts of cars from the 1960s and earlier haunt the confluence of the Pittsburgh’s three rivers. Parts from up to 100 vehicles — many believed to be from a long-defunct Downtown parking lot — are submerged in the Allegheny River, according to Captain Evan Clark of Three Rivers Waterkeeper, an environmental group, that on… Read More
Maryland Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin have announced over $3-million in funding for two water infrastructure projects – in Charles and Wicomico Counties. They also included critical resources for Army Corps of Engineers projects – for maintenance dredging and construction projects. Additional priorities secured by the Senators in the FY25 Energy and Water Development… Read More
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul visited eastern Long Island on Friday to announce a $2.5 million project to protect Ditch Plains Beach from coastal erosion caused by storms. The Town of East Hampton plans to use the money to restore the Montauk beach, which was severely eroded after a spate of storms this winter. The… Read More
Salvage efforts for the LoveBug, the 103-foot yacht that capsized at the mouth of the West River July 27, are set to begin Tuesday. Donjon Marine Co., the New Jersey-based firm that worked to recover the debris from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, has been contracted to salvage the LoveBug and deliver it to… Read More