The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Best Restored Shores Awards. ASBPA established its Best Restored Shores awards program to recognize and encourage more effective coastal risk management that restores natural infrastructure to address
Dredge General MacArthur is making great progress at the Grand Isle Dune and Beach Restoration Project. Sand is currently being dredged and placed along the existing beach to restore and repair the area previously damaged by Hurricane Ida. This collaborative effort between Louisiana Coastal Protecti
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) is awarding 20 grants to 19 communities for Phases 3 and 4 of the Resilient Coastal Communities Program (RCCP). A total of $4,310,350 will be available to complete 15 projects in Phase 3. Most of these engi
Protecting coastal areas and islands against rising sea levels and the forces of waves requires big equipment and major work. But before interfering in an existing ecosystem, people naturally want to know whether the measures they have devised will hold up in practice. With that in mind, Boskalis re
Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently kicked off work on the 466 acre No Name Bayou Marsh Creation Project. Currently the external dikes are under construction with dredging expected to begin later this fall. Containment dikes that are being constructed around the ar
Van Oord has successfully completed the Saltfleet to Gibraltar Point Beach Management Scheme on behalf of the Environment Agency. This year, LNG trailing suction hopper dredger Vox Alexia played a key role in the project. She dredged around 400,000m3 of sand to renourish the beaches at Mablethorpe,
Bay County (FL) and the City of Mexico Beach are working on a project that will restore three-mile stretch of shoreline from the Mexico Beach Canal at the western end to the Gulf County line at the eastern end. According to the officials, the full-scale beach nourishment of the Mexico Beach shorelin
Jefferson Parish (LA) has just released a video about the Living Shoreline project which is now in its Marsh Creation phase. The Lake Pontchartrain shoreline project stretches from Bucktown to Bonnabel Harbor. During the month of July, approximately 20 acres of intertidal marsh is being created by d
Construction has begun at the Buffalo Outer Harbor, the USACE Buffalo District said. At Wilkeson Pointe, work has started in the old commercial shipping slip to build a stone wall ahead of clean, dredged material being placed in the slip. During this time, the slip remains closed to all boating acti
A team of international researchers is investigating the potential for the world’s low-lying coral atoll islands to withstand predicted sea level rises through natural flooding processes. Recently, Deltares experts Robert McCall and Floortje Roelvink joined the international research team for fieldw
Jackson team has been busy lately in North East Lincolnshire placing 70,000 tonnes of rock armour on the Humber estuary’s south coast, as part of the Stallingborough Sea Defence Improvement Scheme. Together with partners Ovenden Earthmoving Co and Aggregate Industries, Jackson is delivering the proj
Wollongong City Council and Shellharbour City Council are working collaboratively with the NSW Government to assess options for the entrance channel of Lake Illawarra. The project, called the Lake Illawarra Entrance Options Study, is looking at options to manage erosion that has occurred since Lake
The Folly Beach (SC) Renourishment is making great progress and everything is still on track to be done by the start of peak hurricane season, the Army Corps said in a statement. The contractor is dredging sand from the Folly River, sending it down long pipes along the beach where bulldozers come in
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) is awarding more than $10.5 million for 7 projects in coastal North Carolina for beach and dune renourishment, as well as other projects related to hurricane and storm damage. “The Coastal Storm Damage grants help resto
