The City of Newburyport Mayor, Donna D. Holaday, has submitted a proposal for $110.1 million in capital improvements over the next five years. The proposed capital improvement program for fiscal 2022-26, presented Monday to the City Council, includes $49.4 million for infrastructure improvements; $3
Last Friday (26 March) marked the official opening of the Hythe Ranges sea defenses scheme between Dymchurch Redoubt and Fisherman’s Beach. The virtual event was officially opened by Dr Martin Hurst, Chair of the Southern Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (SRFCC). Guests at the virtual ceremony i
Whangarei District Council (New Zealand) will take sand that has become trapped in the Matapōuri estuary and place it back to the beach, copying the estuary’s natural sand flushing process. In this project, set to begin next month, up to 15,000 cubic meters of sand will be taken from three spots whe
All-tide access for Molongle Creek boaties is a step closer with stage two dredging work set to begin soon, the Queensland Government reports. Tenders for the dredging are due to be advertised next month. The new channel will be widened to 12 metres and deepened to provided guaranteed all-tide acces
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has awarded a $6.5 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) for the construction of a beneficial use of dredged material placement area designed to handle approximately 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material. The contractor h
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin the Grays Harbor maintenance dredging program next week with the USACE hopper dredgers Essayons and Yaquina. The Essayons is expected to start dredging in the outer harbor of Grays Harbor around April 5-6, 2021 and will dredge approximately 23 days. The Ya
Acta Marine has just announced that in the summer of 2021, the company will take delivery of the most sustainable workboat in the market, the “Coastal Crown”. The 36-meter-long vessel will be an ultra-shallow draft Multicat-type, equipped with Tier III engines to lower NOx emissions with 73%. She wi
After being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, the MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated this morning. “Having removed more than 20,000 tons of sand and mud, the dredging operation underway has succeeded in loosening the Ever Given’s bow within the bank of the Suez Canal and the ship’
The Environment Agency announced today that 25 pioneering projects will receive a share of £150 million from Defra as part of the government’s new Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme. The projects are part of the government’s long-term plan on flood and coastal erosion and a renewed ef
The Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) yesterday released the latest update on their Foakaidhoo Harbor development program. First shipment of rock boulders required for breakwater construction was successfully delivered to the project site last week. According to MTCC, dredging work o
Enabling works on a £56m flood alleviation scheme, which will reduce the flood risk for the towns of Littleborough and Rochdale, Greater Manchester, will get underway in the coming weeks. The new scheme is led by the Environment Agency in partnership with Rochdale Borough Council, Network Rail, the
The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has awarded funding for seven habitat restoration projects in the 18th year of its RI Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Trust Fund (CEHRF). The Council approved the funding at a semi-monthly meeting earlier this month. Included in the fund
The Board of the California State Coastal Conservancy earlier this week awarded over $16.9 million to 13 projects to protect and restore the California coast and San Francisco Bay. Among these grant awards were over $4.4 million from the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetlands Grant P
The NSW Government will provide more than $273,000 in funding to construct a seawall in Lake Illawarra at Windang to protect a local reserve and properties from coastal erosion. Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward, said that the work will be managed by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
