The City of Oceanside, California, has just announced that the annual Army Corps’ dredge of the Harbor entrance has been put to a hold. Dredging of the entrance to the Oceanside Harbor began the week of April 22, 2024 with dredged sand being pumped onto the beach. Yesterday, the City was informed th
The FRPD 309 dredger, owned by FRPD – Fraser River Pile and Dredge, stopped at Seaspan’s Vancouver Drydock for steel and mechanical repairs recently. “Now that our team has replaced several of the bulkheads, bottom hatches, and the propeller blades, it’s looking better than ever,” said Seaspan in it
Southern Dredging Co. from Charleston, South Carolina, has won a $9.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for a maintenance dredging program in Georgia. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) said. Work will be performed in Saint Marys, Georgia,
The Indiana shoreline near Mount Baldy dune is receiving sand again this year to help counteract shoreline erosion. The design and construction supervision are managed by the Army Corps, Chicago District and has been done for seven of the last ten years. The project is dependent on the availability
Port of Los Angeles will receive an estimated $58 million in federal funding this year for maintaining its harbor channels and repairing its wharves, USACE said. “We started this fight in 2011 with my amendment in the Transportation Committee to provide relief to donor ports, such as Los Angeles and
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2024 Work Plan for the Army Civil Works Program. Of the $8.681 billion in appropriations provided for the Army Civil Works Program in the act, approximately $8.2 billion is appropriated across five accounts ― Investigations,
Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise said that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year 2024 Work Plan includes critical hurricane protection, coastal restoration and navigation priorities in Southeast Louisiana. “I have worked for months with the Corps to include critical funding for flood prot
Senator Tom Carper joined Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn M. Garvin, Slaughter Beach Mayor Bob Woods, Delaware Bay Beach Association President Kathy Lock, and state and local officials yesterday to announce $31.9 million in federal funding to help protect and res
The final portion of the King Harbor dredging project is underway, the King Harbor Yacht Club said. The project involves two areas – starting with a sandbar built up inside the breakwall from Marina Way to Yacht Club Way, to remove about 60,000 cubic yards of sediment. The second stretch is along t
The Lee Board of County Commissioners last week voted to approve an interlocal agreement with the Town of Fort Myers Beach for restoration and nourishment of approximately 5.2 miles of beach on Estero Island. The goal of the project in southwest Florida is to address chronic and acute erosion, provi
Representatives from the USACE Los Angeles District teamed up with local, state and federal partners to announce the completion of the Encinitas and Solana Beaches nourishment projects in a joint press conference May 13. The beach nourishment project began early this year in Solana Beach and then ph
The registration period for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2024 (OEEC 2024) in Amsterdam is now open. Early-bird tickets are available on the OEEC website with a 25% discount using the code EARLYBIRD2024. Hurry up as the code is valid only until July 15! For students who want to meet profes
