The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC) have announced completion of the 2023 construction season’s work on a new wetland ecosystem being built in Buffalo’s Outer Harbor. USACE and its contractor, Michigan-based Ryba Marine Con
Work was recently completed on Buffalo’s north breakwater, which is essential to providing safe navigation in Buffalo Harbor, USACE said. Storms in 2019 and 2020 caused extensive damage to the north and south heads, with collapsed walls, core stone blown out and fallen concrete caps. Navigation thro
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England, is repairing breakwater 1 between Star Island and Cedar Island, on the Isle of Shoals which is located in New Hampshire and Maine. This project consists of bringing in 10,000 tons of new 8-13 ton stone as well as harvesting existing displaced stone. Als
With $4.5 million dollars in funding from NOAA under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, Jefferson Parish is building the first living shoreline to protect a federal levee system. Stretching from Bucktown Harbor to the Bonnabel Boat Launch, the living shoreline will consis
Port of Gdansk Authority has just announced that the modernization of the breakwater system in the Northern Port is nearing completion. As reported, the construction part has already been completed, only formal and settlement issues remain. “The investment of the Maritime Office in Gdynia improves t
