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Bob Keistler with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday a new bid process will begin for dredging the harbor at the N.C. Port of Morehead City, even though the last set of bids were nearly twice as expensive as expected. Now the Army Corps is going to try to entice contractors to bid… Read More
Delaware’s chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the protection of ocean, waves and beaches, says the current approach to beach replenishment comes along with high maintenance costs and increased risk of injury to beach goers. Now the organization is asking the state to consider other options to restore beach erosion that is… Read More
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced over $21 million will be provided to 25 projects in 13 coastal and Great Lakes states to protect, restore or enhance more than 11,000 acres of coastal wetlands and adjacent upland habitats under the National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program. State and local governments, private… Read More
NOAA’s Restoration Center works beyond our coasts—we’re addressing habitat loss in the Great Lakes region, too. We recently awarded nearly $5 million to eight projects throughout the region, to restore environmentally degraded areas. The funding will be used to remove dams and barriers, construct fish passage, clean up marine debris, restore wetlands, and remove invasive… Read More
An ambitious new project to dredge the Penryn river could see a new commuter ferry service running between Truro, Falmouth and Penryn. On Monday night Penryn Town Council heard of a vision to regenerate the town’s waterfront, along with the waterfront in Truro, by dredging channels in the two rivers to allow a fast catamaran… Read More
A generation after the first boats pulled in to the Petaluma Marina, the facility off Baywood Drive is financially underwater, facing a construction debt with the state that has grown by more than $2 million since the city’s last interest payment in 1998, according to Petaluma’s year-end financial reports for the fiscal year ended June… Read More
SCIENTISTS behind the first report on the state of Gladstone Harbour’s health say the harbour is environmentally “satisfactory”. The Healthy Harbour Report Card 2015, released this week, collected data from 13 different factors including water and sediment and habitat such as sea grass. There was no data on fish and crab health because “it wasn’t… Read More
The City of Norfolk and Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have launched an effort to complete a flood risk management study for Norfolk. The City of Norfolk is a highlighted area within the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study because it is vulnerable to flooding from rain and tidal events made worse by one… Read More
A bipartisan group led by Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Mario Diaz-Balart introduced bills Tuesday intended to green-light Everglades restoration projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nelson’s office reported. Nelson and Hastings, a Democrat from Palm Beach County, and Diaz-Balart, a Republican from Miami, are pushing a… Read More
As the city and state head back to court this week over a controversial beach-replenishment project, the mayor says the focus should be on mitigating flooding in the back bays. “No matter where people stand on the dune issue, universally, everybody that I’ve spoken to agrees that our problem is in the bay. Has been…. Read More
U.S. lawmakers are looking into a new way to streamline how the federal government appropriates funds for port development projects, yoking together authorization and appropriation, READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The U.S. Port of Oakland’s Outer Harbor Terminal filed for Chapter 11 protection on Monday, two weeks after one of its biggest tenants said it was terminating a 50-year lease with the northern California port. Last month, Ports America, one of the largest marine cargo operators in the U.S., said it was shifting its business… 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
The City of Newport Beach’s new Eelgrass Protection and Mitigation Plan for Eelgrass in Newport Bay may be a win-win for dock owners and the environment, says Orange County Coastkeeper. Eelgrass — a foundation species, which provides important habitats and filters harmful pollutants out of our waters — is a critical component of a healthy… Read More
Seaports are seeing a steady rise in waterborne cargo volumes according to a newly released U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ report. Overall, 2014 freight tonnages increased 3.1 percent over 2013 totals. The Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center tracks the commercial movement of U.S. foreign and domestic cargo and vessels. All told, freight volumes… Read More