By Will Thomas OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Dare County leaders and Hatteras and Ocracoke Island organizations are all in Washington, D.C., this week, attending an annual summit that will allow leaders and organizations around the country to see firsthand the challenges the area is facing and how they can help change that. “This is an… Read More
By Joe Oliveto As the name might imply, Kansas’ Tuttle Creek Lake — which is actually a man-made reservoir whose construction was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938 — consists primarily of, well, lots of water. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from working on a project that involves… Read More
By Conner Prince GRAND LAKE ST. MARYS, Ohio (WLIO) – Grand Lake St. Marys State Park is gearing up for this year’s dredging operations as their dredge crew is fully staffed for the first time in six years. Current plans include dredging at Bass Landing, Hidden Shores, Harbor Point, the campground lagoon area, Sandy Beach, the… Read More
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, March 24 (Reuters) – A unit of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison (0001.HK), opens new tab said on Tuesday it had widened its claims in an international arbitration case against Panama, saying damages had now risen to more than $2 billion. Panama Ports Company, which for nearly three decades operated the… Read More
By Gabriel San Roman San Clemente’s stunning coastline, which will serve as a backdrop to Olympic surfing in two years, has also turned into a battlefield over beach erosion. Construction crews, hopper dredges and bulldozers have worked to restore vanishing stretches of beach with much-needed sand. The city has also contracted a coastal administrator to… Read More