Emergency dredging is underway in the Manasquan River to address issues in Wills Hole Thorofare. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), their contractor is mobilizing equipment in the area to do the work. “Boaters should use no-wake speed near or when passing all project e
Alabama Senator Katie Britt has announced a $34 million increase for the Mobile Bay in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fiscal Year 2026 Work Plan, which the Corps uses to prioritize its civil works projects and funding needs. Following advocacy from Senator Britt, this funding increase of more than
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Charleston District, will start dredging the Little River Inlet, Horry County, in the following days. This maintenance project, set to begin next week, will remove about 65,000 cubic yards of sand from a shoal in the federal navigation channel and use that m
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated approximately $70 million from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) to the Port of Los Angeles for harbor maintenance, seismic resiliency and navigational safety improvements. The San Pedro Bay port complex was allocated a record $131.8 million. The
California Representative Salud Carbajal has secured $6.15 million for Santa Barbara Harbor’s dredging project. The funding was secured through the Fiscal Year 2026 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Work Plan, an annual civil works initiative focused on infrastructure improvements. “The Santa Barbara Har
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) has completed beach renourishment work on the north end of Myrtle Beach. A separate project in the Arcadian Shores area, paid for by the City of Myrtle Beach and Horry County, is scheduled to begin in mid-April. According
Maintenance dredging and land reclamation rarely go hand in hand. But sometimes both objectives can be achieved within a single project, Boskalis said. This is currently the case in Mexico, where their trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Crestway is maintaining the Port of Veracruz while using so
The City of Portland said that after a busy winter season along the waterfront, the Portland Waterfront dredging work is complete. On the Portland side of the Fore River alone, over 10,000 linear feet of berthing has been deepened and restored, resulting in over 45,000 cubic yards (equivalent to 4,5
The long-term repair project of the Charlestown Breachway is now complete. The $8.4M project included breachway restoration, channel dredging, beach renourishment with the creation of two sand dunes and plantings planned for fall. According to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Dredging operations on the Itajaí-Açu River channel are underway. This action marks the beginning of the work outlined in the contract signed with Van Oord, which is responsible for the maintenance dredging of the waterway access channel, Port of Itajaí said. According to civil engineer and dredging
New Jersey Congressman Jefferson Van Drew said that South Jersey will receive $99 million in federal funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to replenish and protect key beaches in the region. This is the biggest investment in New Jersey beach projects in a year without a hurricane. “I have be
Ecocoast will host a free technical webinar on April 22, 2026 – Earth Day – introducing the Ecobarrier Silt Curtain Green, a next-generation turbidity control solution engineered entirely without EPS or foam. Traditional silt curtains rely on expanded polystyrene (EPS) and foam floatation systems th
