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Crews are working to re-nourish “Pass-A-Grille,” but local leaders want to see more work on our beaches. Pass-A-Grille is undergoing a major re-nourishing project, replacing sand in the area and rebuilding the size of the beach. Robin Miller is president and CEO of Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber and said right now, the current policies in… Read More
WESTERLY – On a fine summer day, you can probably find Caswell Cooke on a stage near Misquamicut Beach wearing a sailor’s outfit and jamming with his band, Caswell & the Peel N’ Eats. These days you can also find Cooke in slacks and a jacket in meeting rooms trying to persuade Westerly residents and city officials… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND, DE — The Sussex County Council is agreeing to contribute $800,000 in funding toward dredging in the north and south channels leading to the Little Assawoman Bay. The Town of Fenwick Island began receiving bids for the proposed project in April. The initial bids were roughly $2.3 million, nearly $1 million more than… Read More
Barnegat Bay provides billions in tourism and fishing impact State must get new permission to operate its expanded dump New Jersey environmental and transportation regulators cleaning up a lucrative coastal recreation zone were barred from dumping their dredging sludge in a containment area that a state court said was operating under a faulty, defunct permit…. Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers recently welcomed the government dredger MURDEN to New England. According to the Corps, MURDEN began dredging May 30 at Green Harbor in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and is currently dredging Great Salt Pond in Block Island, RI. Green Harbor in Marshfield is located at the northwest end of Cape Cod Bay,… Read More
Ultimately, the decade-long restoration project filled over 100 miles of ditches, restored more than 3,000 acres of wetlands and replanted more than 20,000 acres of tallgrass prairie. POLK COUNTY, Minn. – When Tim Cowdery – a now-retired hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey – published a report in 2019 highlighting more than a decade of… Read More
North Wildwood Beach Replenishment Underway! – Drone Footage The North Wildwood beach nourishment dredging project is officially underway! On Wednesday night, crews initiated equipment tests, and since then, the dredge has been actively pumping sand onto the North Wildwood beaches. The Wildwood Video Archive visited the project on its first day, capturing aerial footage and… Read More
Thousands of cubic yards of sand are being blasted onto the beaches in North Wildwood. An emergency beach nourishment dredging project is officially underway, and beachgoers and long-time residents stopped by Friday afternoon to watch the machines in action. “You have to be grateful that something is finally being done because they weren’t going to do anything,… Read More
For drone footage, see this story too Crews are working to widen the badly eroded beaches in North Wildwood, New Jersey. Gov. Phil Murphy and other officials got a firsthand look at the emergency beach replenishment project. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has the details. North Wildwood Beach Replenishment Underway! – Drone Footage Source
Curtin Maritime Corp., Long Beach, California, was awarded an $18,774,208 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work will be performed in Oakland, California, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2024. Fiscal 2024 civil consolidated working funds in the amount of $18,774,208 were obligated at the… Read More
Inland Dredging Co. LLC, Dyersburg, Tennessee, was awarded a $30,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 7, 2025. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Alabama, is… Read More
The annual tax would raise around $7 million each year for the program. The proposed assessment is also tiered, with residents paying more the closer they live to the shoreline. The Flagler County Commission is looking to implement a county-wide special assessment tax to fund a beach management program. By the numbers: The proposed special… Read More
Note: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this month begins the most ambitious and expensive beach-renourishment (or reconstruction) project in Flagler County history, along the shore from North 6th Street in Flagler Beach to the north border of Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area. When Flagler County signed the agreement in 2019, it was conceived as… Read More
At a March meeting of the UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London, a majority of member states expressed support for a levy on greenhouse gases emitted by the global shipping industry. This fee – along with a fuel standard mandating that ships must increase the proportion of green energy they are using over time – could… Read More
