Beach Nourishment
Beach Nourishment
Noosa Dog Beach nourishment and reprofiling VIDEO
Beach nourishment and reprofiling works wrapped up more than two months ahead of schedule at Noosa Dog Beach in 2024, helping to reduce coastal erosion in the popular recreational area. Hall Contracting dredged approximately 85,000m3 of sand at the popular recreational area, renourishing the beach a
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Wollongong: Fieldwork starts on Coastal Hazards Study
Wollongong City Council said that fieldwork for a Coastal Hazards Study is now underway. Specialist consultants have been engaged to identify coastal issues or ‘hazards’ – including cliff and slope instability, estuary and foreshore erosion, creek entrance instability, tidal and coastal inundation,
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Spotlight on Glenelg to Kingston Park sand recycling
The Government of South Australia’s Department for Environment and Water is getting ready to move sand from Glenelg to Kingston Park beaches. This is required to reverse the natural transport of sand along the beach system in a northward direction, accumulating in the Glenelg area. Before moving the
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Lady Robinson Beach getting new sand
Important works are taking place on Crown Land along Lady Robinson Beach in Sydney, with one project affecting Kyeemagh and Brighton Le Sands and a second concurrent project affecting Ramsgate and Dolls Point. Storm events and tidal inundation is causing significant erosion of the area, which would
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The Folly Beach project nearly complete
The Folly Beach renourishment project in South Carolina will soon be complete, according to the Army Corps’ Charleston District. This major effort on Folly is improving the coastal defenses against mother nature, reducing the risk to life and infrastructure behind the dunes and bolstering resiliency
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Bay County OK’s Mexico Beach renourishment project
Bay County (FL) commissioners have just awarded a $27 million Mexico Beach renourishment project to Weeks Marine. The Mexico Beach Re-nourishment and Dune Restoration is first and foremost a shore protection project intended to provide critical storm protection for public and private infrastructure,
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Duval County shore protection project almost done
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has reported great news for beach lovers – USACE Duval team expects Great Lakes Dredge & Dock to complete sand placement along the county shoreline this week. The team will have placed more than 1.3 million cubic yards of sand along the shore t
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Jimmys Beach renourishment work continues
MidCoast Council is continuing to renourish the sand on Jimmys Beach from the Winda Woppa stockpile in order to provide a temporary buffer that provides a level of protection for the public infrastructure threatened by coastal erosion. This practice that has been underway for more than 40 years. Oth
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Flagler County beachfill project passes halfway mark
Flagler County Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) project is over 50 percent complete with more than 1.2 million cubic yards of sand placed on the beach, much of which is once again open to the public. According to the Corps, the contractor is making excellent progress as it constructs dune and be
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Estero Island nourishment project in full swing
Last Saturday, the dredge for the Estero Island Nourishment and Hurricane Recovery Project began pumping sand from the Gulf onto the Forth Myers Beach. According to the Town, the contractor (Ahtna Marine Construction Corporation) has constructed the pipeline North towards Bowditch Park and is now pu
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GLDD bags $54.4M Long Beach Island nourishment contract
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) has won a $54.4 million USACE contract for Long Beach Island nourishment project. Long Beach Island is an 18-mile long barrier island located in southern Ocean County, New Jersey. The area has historically suffered damages from coastal storms, hurricanes and nor’east
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St. Augustine Beach project enters home stretch
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District continues to make great progress in completion of the emergency restoration beach nourishment project to A Street in St. Augustine Beach and wrapped up on Friday, 9 August. Focus will now turn to replacing some of the lost sand near and around
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Latest update on Adelaide’s dredging and beach replenishment
The state government is continuing to work at Henley Beach and West Beach in line with the recommendations of the independent Adelaide Beach Management Review. The final deliveries of quarry sand to Henley Beach are nearly complete. Sand delivery to replenish West Beach started on Monday 29 July. Al
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VIDEO UPDATE: Grand Isle Beach and Dune Restoration
Louisiana CPRA has just released this beautiful video update about the Grand Isle Beach and Dune Restoration Project. Grand Isle, the state’s only inhabited barrier island, was badly damaged by Hurricane Ida, and this work will restore four miles of beach and dunes. When finished, it will add an ext