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Efforts to revitalize the Mahoning River will take center stage today when the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments, along with the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber and the Western Reserve Port Authority, host a “Paddle the Mahoning River” event. The event will include the presentation of a $90,000 check to Eastgate from Ohio Environmental Protection Agency… Read More
Two West Maui shoreline protection groups have filed a lawsuit to halt an effort by the Hololani condominium association to drive vertical sheets into the ground as early as Aug. 1 in a shoreline protection project in Kahana. Plaintiffs Na Papa’i Wawae ‘Ula’ula and the nonprofit West Maui Preservation Association, who also have included the… Read More
Oceanside, Issa push for overdue harbor, beach-sand projectLocal officials are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete the routine dredging that it failed to do this spring at the Oceanside harbor. The leader of Oceanside’s tourism marketing agency, Leslee Gaul, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, have written letters to the Corps expressing how… Read More
During Monday morning’s intermittent rain, EPA Regional Administrator Peter Lopez, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, and Dan Wiley from Congress Member Nydia Velázquez’s office marked the final phase of the dredging and capping pilot project at the Gowanus Canal’s 4th Street Turning Basin. L-R: David Briggs (Gowanus Community Advisory Group member & Executive Director of… Read More
Wednesday night’s City Commission meeting, Cici and Hyatt Brown revealed that they’re leading a multi-million dollar effort to completely recreate Riverfront Park from Orange Avenue up to the Main Street Bridge. DAYTONA BEACH — In 1894, a commercial printing tycoon from New York City built an opulent Beach Street mansion overlooking the Halifax River. He… Read More
Consent has been granted to dredge Whangarei Harbour clearing the way for fully laden super-sized fuel tankers to visit the Marsden Point oil refinery. The “Suezmax” tankers already visit the refinery regularly but could only do so 90 per cent full because of the channel depth. Refining NZ sought the consent on the basis a… Read More
Hamilton, Ont.’s massive harbour cleanup project will move into a second phase this July as crews begin dredging almost half a million cubic metres of contaminated soil off the harbour floor for permanent storage in a recently completed Engineered Containment Facility (ECF). The multi-year $138.9-million Randle Reef Contaminated Sediment Remediation Project has multiple public and… Read More
The county has answered a call for help from a neighboring jurisdiction suffering from beach erosion that threatens private property and potentially public infrastructure if nothing is done. The Sarasota County Commission has agreed to become a co-applicant with Charlotte County on Charlotte applications seeking state money to rebuild disappearing portions of critically eroded shoreline… Read More
Penal residents are calling for the urgent removal of a broken amphibious excavator left in the river near the Tulsa picnic site for over a month now. They said the excavator is partly blocking of the watercourse called the Blackwater Channel and can contribute to flooding in the already flood-prone area. The excavator belongs to… Read More
State wildlife officials will ask the public for input on suction dredging in state waters at four public meetings, including one in Spokane. Suction dredge mining uses large, gas-powered vacuums to suck up gravel on the bottom of rivers and streams in search of gold impacting fish spawning areas, rivers and water quality. At the… Read More