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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
Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott (GRE) has slammed the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for haphazardly approving the dredging of the MPT navigation channel. It has alleged that the MPT is acting highhandedly by not taking the State authorities into consideration or consulting the traditional fishermen and their associations/unions. GRE has demanded that… Read More
Conditions at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor are the perfect storm of recent years, good or bad, depending on the viewer’s perspective. Boaters have spent weeks locked inside the harbor after years of drought-dry winters, while experienced local surfers are sliding in for rare wave access. Surfer and photographer Dave Nelson was reluctant to… Read More
Nearly a third of New Jersey’s beaches were heavily damaged during the weekend blizzard and nor’easter, which attacked the southern shoreline with greater ferocity, state environmental officials said on Thursday. Nineteen of New Jersey’s 66 beaches stretching from the bay shore of the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the Delaware Bay, sustained major erosion… Read More
The Georgia Ports Authority grew import volumes through Savannah at rates far exceeding its Southeast competitors and the U.S. as a whole, in large part by attracting big-box retailers such as Home Depot, Target and IKEA to establish import distribution centers nearby. But forces coming to bear on the retail industry, including e-commerce and a… Read More
68 gull-billed terns, discernible by their black, gull-like bills, could make or break the future of the port of Hamburg. The creatures – on the red list of most endangered birds – tend to breed 40 miles to the south of the port every summer by the banks of the river Elbe and are the… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing a $41.3 million project to dredge PCBs and other pollution from the Hudson River at the former BASF industrial dye factory on Riverside Avenue. DEC wants dredging in the river to remove volatile organics, and toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium, copper, mercury, zinc and arsenic, that… Read More