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Construction of Topsail Island’s first beach nourishment project has begun. On the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 4, sand started being pumped … By Connie Pletl (carolinacoastonline) [mappress] Source: carolinacoastonline, January 6, 2011;
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Folly Beach, a South Carolina Beach just outside of Charleston, needs another renourishment project just five years after the last one, … By Sara Novak (treehugger) [mappress] Source: treehugger, December 20, 2010;
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Officials from the City of Tybee Island (GA) and the Army Corps yesterday, August 29, signed a $13 million beach replenishment deal that will lead to more sand on the island community’s beach for additional protection from future storm damage. The deal for the third renourishment project in the last five years was signed by […]
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The City of Sarasota (FL) announced yesterday that the crews have begun staging equipment at Lido Beach in preparation for an emergency renourishment project that is scheduled to begin as early as this weekend. The contractor for the City’s short-term project, Coastal Dredging Corp., will spend the next few days laying pipe and bringing in […]
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As Gulflive.com reports, a bad weather has delayed a beach renourishment project on the north shore of West Ship Island, said Susan Rees, program manager of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program. The $7 million Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program is to move about 600,000 cubic yards of sand onto the north […]
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Gulf Islands National Seashore and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are expected to begin a sand-renourishment project on the south shore… By Kimberly Blair (pnj) [mappress] Source: pnj, November 11, 2011;
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Lee County’s $4 million beach renourishment project continues on Fort Myers Beach as crews are working to extend the beach approximately… (abc-7) [mappress] Source: abc-7, September 20, 2011
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Earlier this week, Friends of Hunting Island State Park, Inc. hosted a celebration to mark completion of the $17 million Hunting Island beach renourishment project. The ribbon cutting was held Monday, June 22, in the presence of SC State Representative Michael Rivers from District 121, SC State Representative Shannon Erickson from District 124, and SC […]
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Earth Tech Enterprises, Inc. is about to begin Collier County Beach Renourishment project, according to the county’s latest update. The County Coastal Zone Management has advised that beach access for the 2019 Beach Renourishment Project at Horizon Way will remain open through this weekend. They also added that mobilization and staging at that location is […]
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Collier County beach managers hope to speed up upcoming renourishment project. Naplesnews.com reports that instead of waiting until fall 2013 to start a $31 million beach widening project, the county is talking with state and federal permitting agencies about ways to get a scaled-back version of the project started in January. “We would love it […]
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The final phase of the beach renourishment project in Carolina Beach has just finished at the North End. [mappress] Source: wect, May 27, 2010;
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Preserving Sydney’s beaches against rising sea levels could cost more than $700 million over the next 50 years and would require the government to reverse… By Kelsey Munro (smh) [mappress] Source: smh, December 8, 2010
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The construction of the 2016 Island-wide Beach renourishment project is officially underway, according to the Town of Hilton Head. The Town’s contractor, Weeks Marine, Inc., began the pumping of sand on Mitchelville Beach in the morning hours of June 17, 2016 with its cutterhead suction dredge, CR McCaskill. Sand placement in this immediate area is expected to […]
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The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners will hold its regular meeting on February 11 at 9 a.m. in the Tiger Point Community Center in Gulf Breeze. The final item on the agenda will be a presentation of the Navarre Beach renourishment project and the associated Municipal Services Benefit Unit (MSBU) funding formula as […]
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Panama City Beach officials are ready to move forward with a beach renourishment project, but recent action by Florida’s governor could … By J. Michael Brown (panhandleparade) [mappress] Source: panhandleparade, January 20, 2011;
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Next week, a new project will begin to place approximately 1.4 million cubic yards of material on Myrtle, North Myrtle, Garden City and Surfside Beaches. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, recently awarded this $34.8 million contract for the Myrtle Beach Storm Damage Reduction Project to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, […]
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River dredging project financed by the World Bank seems to get serious attention from a number of developed countries. Contractors from at… By Sheila Mullane Estrada (tampabay) [mappress] Source: tampabay, August 25, 2010;
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A concrete manhole jutting from the water behind Flounders Chowder House is a startling example that sand is needed to renourish the eroding… By Kimberly Blair (pnj) [mappress] Source: pnj, October 25, 2010;
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Hundreds of people yesterday morning watched thousands of cubic yards of sand gush onto the beaches of Plum Island as dredging resumed over… By Dave Rogers (eagletribune) [mappress] Source: eagletribune, October 11, 2010;
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The third beach renourishment project is under way along Panama City Beach… By Kavontae Smalls (wjhg) [mappress] Source: wjhg, October 12, 2011;
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A $4 million beach renourishment project is getting started on Fort Myers Beach. (nbc-2) [mappress] Source: nbc-2, April 26, 2011;
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“It’s just what the area needed,” said St. Augustine Beach Mayor S. Gary Snodgrass after the renourishment project was completed. “The recent work, which started in February and was finished last month, is part of a 50-year commitment by the Corps of Engineers to keep the beach renourished. This is the third in a series […]
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Okaloosa County commissioners abolished the beach renourishment project, but they will maintain the county’s five year dredging permit. The County commissioners held a public meeting Tuesday night to consider abolishing property assessed annual fees, or MSBU funding, to pay for the project. A lot of residents showed up at the Emerald Coast Convention Center to […]
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Minister for Environment and Climate Change Ryan Smith has announced that Portarlington’s beach renourishment project will commence in mid-August and be completed by late September. The project is part of the Victorian Coalition Government’s $9.54 million Protection of the Port Phillip Beaches and Foreshore Program which is funding renourishment projects at high priority beaches around […]
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After months-long battle between federal and state lawmakers, the Carolina Beach renourishment project has been officially extended, reported WECT. The fifty-year Carolina Beach renourishment project was set to expire this year, with no method for extension. The WRRDA bill authorized a three-year extension of coastal storm damage projects which are scheduled to expire in the […]
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Construction works on Phase II of the Post Florence Renourishment Project are to be completed by April 30th, informs the Carteret County Shore Protection Office. Last Sunday, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock completed pumping sand eastward of the submerged pipeline landing situated near the Sea Dunes subdivision (a.k.a “Line 7”). “They have dissembled the pipeline […]
