Cassowary Coast Regional Council will be undertaking beach nourishment and restoration works at Cardwell in the following weeks. According to the latest update, the works to replenish sand and rehabilitate the erosion site will be conducted from Monday, March 11, north of the Jetty. The program will
Havant Borough Council will be carrying out the next beach recycling campaign along the Eastoke frontage in the following weeks to help reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion to properties and infrastructure. According to the Council, the works will start w/c 4th March 2024 and will be comp
St. Johns County will begin the $38.6 million Ponte Vedra Beach Restoration Project in March. The project is set to restore storm-damaged dunes and berms, providing storm protection to upland infrastructure with more than 2 million cubic yards of sand dredged in for the ocean. Also, the work will cr
The North Carolina’s 7th District Representative David Rouzer paid a visit to Wrightsville Beach yesterday to speak about the ongoing renourishment project with USACE. Since January 2023, Rouzer has pushed for a bill in Washington that would allow the Wrightsville Beach renourishment system to remai
The Cassowary Coast Regional Council (QLD) will soon be undertaking beach nourishment works at South Mission Beach. Starting next week, the nourishment works will consist of relocating sand dredged from Tully River to a 700m section of beach at Kennedy Esplanade, between Jackey Jackey Street and Owe
Annual dredging at West Bay and Lyme Regis will take place between February 12 and March 28, Dorset Council said. This work is needed to keep busy navigational channels free from sediment deposits that come from either rivers or the natural action of waves on beaches. “Our harbours provide safe moor
The Army Corps’ New England District Planning Division performed maintenance dredging which hydraulically removed approximately 118,000 cubic yards of sand from Cape Cod Canal. The sand was then pumped onto Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, MA. Additional sand will be placed on Town Neck Beach as part of
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) will hold their next webinar focusing on “Beach Placement Safety Educational Materials” on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 2 PM EDT. Due to a series of incidents related to dredging operations at USACE projects across the nation since September 2020, including two fataliti
The Town of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, yesterday commenced work on the Estero Island Beach Sand Truck Haul project. The project will place 112,000 tons of beach compatible sand from Stewart Mine in Immokalee onto Fort Myers Beach to replace sand eroded away by Hurricane Ian. The work area on the bea
The Dutra Group’s Hopper Dredge Stuyvesant is dredging material from a designated borrow area offshore of Cape Canaveral. This material is transited to Melbourne Beach where it is offloaded through approximately 4,500’ of subline. The material is being used to build a stockpile approximately 26’ hig
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has begun the last phase of the Fernandina Beach (FL) nourishment project. According to the City, GLDD was contracted through the Corps of Engineers to place sand on the Fernandina beaches. The contractor is on the north end now and will finish up next we
Due to emergency storm response and beach nourishment operations, Santa Barbara County (CA) will close the eastern end of Goleta Beach Park and Goleta Pier beginning February 20, 2024. “Site preparation is expected to begin on 2/13, and operations will start on 2/20. There may be intermittently clos
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Los Angeles District said that the dredging operations and sand replenishment works at Solana Beach are about halfway complete. The project, which reduces coastal storm damage and erosion along a 7,200-foot-long stretch of shoreline, includes construction of a 150-f
USACE Wilmington District Project Manager, Brennan Dooley, met with Cape Fear Academy’s Dynamic Coastal Studies class earlier this week to discuss beach renourishment. Brennan met Ms. Rienks’s class on Wrightsville Beach to get a close look at what beach renourishment looks like. “He taught them abo
