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Today, the Biden-Harris administration unveiled the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, outlining crucial funding allocations to advance the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) mission and drive action on key climate priorities. Using the best available science and practices in the decision-making process, the Administration seeks to align the management of America’s offshore energy,… Read More
Salisbury, Massachusetts, residents paid $500,000 for a sand dune to protect beachfront homes from the sea. Three days after completion, the 14,000-ton barrier was obliterated by three storms and the year’s highest tides. Source
The Department of the Navy’s budget request for the Marine Corps for 2025 funds the service’s modernization ambitions, and remains similar to the fiscal year 2024 proposal, a top Navy official said. “Procurement is mostly flat with investments in the industrial base, undersea capabilities and Marine Corps Force Design,” Rear Adm. Ben Reynolds, deputy assistant secretary… Read More
Long Beach has spent more than $45 million on repairs and improvements for the Queen Mary over the last eight years, a deep financial hole out of which the city has only begun to climb. For at least the last 17 years, the ship has struggled to operate in the black, turning a profit only… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing maintenance dredging of the channel and anchorages of the Narraguagus River Federal Navigation Project (FNP). By state law, the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is required to provide the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP) with an assessment of the impacts on the… Read More
Dredging of the Muskegon Channel that is underway and expected to last until the end of June will supplement the beach at Pere Marquette. Dredging to remove about 133,000 cubic yards of sediment began on Friday, March 8, according to a press release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Operations are expected to conclude… Read More
The project to dredge Bogue Inlet and deposit sand on Emerald Isle beaches began in early January and was supposed to be complete by mid-February but is now expected to conclude by March 25. “Unfortunately, the contractor has experienced several issues that have again delayed the project,” Emerald Isle Town Manager Matt Zapp said late… Read More
With the city council approval, a section of the Vermilion River in Lafayette will be dredged. The project is about one-half-mile near the confluence of the river and Coulee Mine, near the Rotary Point area. The problem is junk and sediment at the river’s bottom. Dredge the Vermilion supports the project slated to begin this summer…. Read More
Last week, Jenna Tews, who lives at Buttersville Beach, was walking her dog when she observed multiple piles of black plastic protruding from under the sand. Tews recognized the debris as left-over materials from a dredging operation. Family was in that line of work, she said. “I thought it could be dredging fuse,” Tews told… Read More
Another sign of spring along the Lakeshore is the annual dredging of Lake Michigan harbors. This is the first full week of the 2024 Detroit District season to clear commercial pathways onto the big lake, with Holland-based King Company once again handling the chores for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Crews began last Friday… Read More
Branch County Drain Commissioner Mike Hard told Branch County Commissioners during their work session last Thursday they have received one bid for the dredging of the mouth of the Coldwater River, with a second bid expected to come in sometime this week. He said it was found out two years ago maintaining that section of… Read More
As a part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $450 million in Federal Fiscal Year 2024 funding through MARAD’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP). Investments made under the PIDP focus on modernizing the Nation’s coastal and inland waterway… Read More
The Berrien County Board of Commissioners has heard from Community Development Director Dan Fette about the need for dredging in the St. Joseph River. Speaking to the board Thursday, Fette said he’s been contacted by marinas about excessive sand that’s threatening the recreational boating season in the area. “We have been told that there are… Read More
Not for the first time, the west end of Oak Island needs sand. Hurricane Isaias, which raked the Brunswick County shoreline nearly four years ago, chewed away a lot of the beach. Storms, king tides and gradual sea-level rise has since then added to the pain. But there isn’t enough available beach-compatible material near shore,… Read More