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The city of Milton has embarked upon a mission to restore the iconic Locklin Lake, described by former mayor Wesley Meiss as “the heart of Milton,” to its former glory. City Council members voted unanimously Dec. 12 to spend $104,000 on an engineering study that will allow it to navigate through a planned three-phase restoration effort. City Manager… Read More
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, awarded a $29.1 million contract to Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co. LLC, out of Quincy, Massachusetts, for Baltimore Harbor and channels maintenance dredging for Fiscal Year 2024. In coordination with the Maryland Department of Transportation, Port Administration, the project consists of dredging approximately 1.6 million… Read More
Two local nonprofit leaders are praising Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, and others in Congress for introducing a bipartisan bill that would authorize $60 million annually to protect coastal wetlands. The Resilient Coast and Estuaries Act would strengthen efforts to preserve natural habitats along the San Luis Rey River in Oceanside, the San Elijo… Read More
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) — The city of San Clemente is celebrating a landmark sand replenishment project 20 years in the making. “The project will protect critical shoreline, infrastructure, including rail lines, utilities, businesses, homes, as well as preserve access, public access, to our beaches,” said Mayor Victor Cabral. A total of 251,000 cubic yards of sand will… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District has completed annual dredging of Toledo Harbor and the Maumee River. Dredging of Toledo Harbor is the largest dredging operation on the Great Lakes, ensuring accessible depths for large vessels, the continued flow of commodities across the lakes, and the economic viability of United States waterways…. Read More
Every month, we receive questions and concerns from people in and around Charleston related to flooding, government regulations and sea-level rise. We read every single one. Now we are answering some of them in the pages of The Post and Courier. Our Rising Waters Q&A appears every other Monday. Email your questions to tcox@postandcourier.com and jchester@postandcourier.com. This month,… Read More
ATLANTIC BEACH, Carteret County — Are you interested in the progress of the winter dredging project on the East end of Atlantic Beach? The Army Corp of Engineers now offers a Sand Placement Tracker that shows the progress of the project in real-time. Please click below for both the web and mobile versions. This periodic… Read More
San Clemente’s beach building is officially underway. Officials gathered on Monday, Dec. 18, to mark the start of the long-awaited San Clemente Shoreline Sand Replenishment Project, with heavy equipment in the backdrop shifting sand to make way for the dredged sediment pulled from the ocean floor in Oceanside. Beachgoers will notice a large barge off the… Read More
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Officials continue to monitor the coastline following the storms this past weekend in Flagler County. On Monday, they were out doing a visual assessment to determine what damage was caused by the severe weather. “I have been making my way down from Marineland where we just finished the project a couple of… Read More
Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic. Massive machines like the Dredge Goetz, a 225-foot-long vessel with a suction pipe nearly two feet wide, were moving through the river… Read More
A “living shoreline” in Jefferson Parish, a lock complex for the Houma Navigation Canal and work on an unprecedented Mississippi River diversion are among a long list of coastal restoration and hurricane risk reduction projects state officials hope to prioritize in the next fiscal year, a draft plan amounting to $1.68 billion shows. That’s the largest amount in the 16-year history… Read More
According to the Virgin Islands Port Authority, the maintenance dredging of the Noel “Breeze” Boynes Car Ferry Dock in Red Hook, St. Thomas is completed. The project contractor, Divic-Madou Enterprises, completed the 10-day job in just three days. The dredging was performed at night and did not interrupt ferry operations. The Boynes Car Ferry Dock… Read More
In one of the great on-again-off-again local projects of this century, dredging looks to be coming back to the Assawoman Canal and White Creek early next year. DNREC pulled the plug on the once-started project earlier this year due to environmental restrictions. There wasn’t any certainty as to when, or if, the project would resume… Read More
Sandwich’s storm-battered Town Neck Beach got its latest round of beach nourishment this fall. Weeks Marine, working with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, piped sand ashore from a hydraulic dredge working at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal to deepen the channel. The sand was used to fortify the protective dune that fronts the parking lot… Read More
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C – SECU Foundation and North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF) are teaming up to help protect and enhance five North Carolina coastal communities through a three-year expansion of NCCF resilience projects. The foundation’s advocacy for their valuable work brought a $250,000 challenge grant to directly support the development of programs to build coastal… Read More