St. Tammany Parish President Michael Cooper recently spoke to the Maritime Museum of Louisiana on the coastal restoration and protection projects around the historic Tchefuncte Lighthouse and Madisonville area. Among the projects mentioned is the $1.6 million Tchefuncte Habitat Restoration & Shoreli
The Louisiana Wildlife Federation haws just announced that the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is accepting feedback on the Draft Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Plan, a 3-year outlook of projected revenues and expenditures, project activities, and implementation schedules. The $1.68 bil
Western Marine Construction of Seattle, Washington, has won the U.S. Army Corps construction contract for the Kenai River Bluffs Erosion Project. According to the Alaska District, the contractor will construct a protective rock berm approximately 5,000 feet in length along the north bank of the Kena
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is closing a portion of Cape May County’s Higbee Beach Wildlife Protection Area in advance of a $37.5 million restoration project that will start later this month. The Higbee Beach WMA Restoration Project will result in over 400 hundred a
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) last week announced $1.6 million to bolster flooding mitigation efforts in the City of Cambridge in Dorchester County. The federal funds will support the design and permitting of a flood barrier along the shoreline of the Choptank River with
The Poruma Seawall Project is part of the $40 million Torres Strait Seawalls Program (TSSP) Stage 2: a program of coastal protection works on five targeted islands in the Torres Strait: Boigu, Poruma, Warraber, Iama and Masig. Mitigation works on these islands are necessary to protect critical infra
The Town of Topsail Beach, NC, has just announced that great progress is being made on the town’s 2023 Beach, Inlet, Sound Maintenance Project. Norfolk Dredging began placing sand on the beach in November and besides a few pauses due to weather, the project has been operating continuously since then
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently began work on the Sea Girt (NJ) beach replenishment project. The project, which kicked off in early January, will provide much needed sand and storm protection to the south end of town. The contractor, Weeks Marine has so far filled the beaches of Trenton an
Eight South Australian councils and a community group will share in just over $1 million of state government grants to undertake a range of coastal protection projects. The Coast Protection Board has awarded $1,028,000 to projects worth $2.2 million under the 2023-24 Coast Protection Grants Program.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has completed closeout of the habitat restoration along the Buffalo River near Katherine Street, Buffalo, N.Y. The $2.7 million project, funded by the EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor is about to begin dredging for Brevard County (FL) beach renourishment project. According to the Corps, the Brevard Co beachfill project will begin on or about Jan. 24; the sand placement along the shoreline will begin on or about Jan. 29. The project inc
Rijkswaterstaat recently successfully completed another beach replenishment project – the Scheveningen beachfill campaign. During the works, a total of 700,000 m3 of sand was dredged and spread over the beach, between the harbor head and the beach north of the Pier. The project, completed late last
Work on the historic Lake Borgne Marsh Creation project, Louisiana’s largest marsh creation effort by acreage to date, is in full swing. According to Louisiana CPRA, the project will use 13 million cubic yards of dredged material to restore more than 2,700 acres of marsh along the south shore of the
In light of the devastating impact recent storms have had on Overlook Beach, Town of Babylon Supervisor Rich Schaffer recently held a press conference to emphasize the gravity of this situation and urge the Army Corps to include the beach in its upcoming beach erosion control dredging project. “This
