Beach Nourishment
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Another successful Topsail Beach nourishment project
Norfolk Dredging has completed their work dredging the channel and placing sand on the beach in Topsail Island, NC. According to the Town, the contractor finished another successful dredging/beach nourishment project on February 26. Over the next few weeks, the crews will be working to demobilize eq
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Mounts Bay beach nourishment project completed
The Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority has just announced that the beach nourishment works at Mounts Bay, Marengo, are officially done. “A huge shout out to our amazing community for your cooperation and patience throughout the works,” the Authority said. “The temporarily closed areas are no
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Duval beach renourishment about to begin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District’s Duval beach renourishment is about to begin. Mobilization will start later this month and beach nourishment, starting at 10th Ave. South, around the end of April, said USACE. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., LLC, of Houston, Texas, won the $32.4
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All set for Cardwell beach nourishment and restoration
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
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The next beach recycling campaign at Eastoke frontage about to begin
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
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Ponte Vedra Beach Restoration about to begin
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
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Representative Rouzer tours Wrightsville Beach renourishment
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
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South Mission Beach nourishment starting next week
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
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Annual dredging at West Bay and Lyme Regis underway
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
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Town Neck Beach gets new sand
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
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WEDA webinar on “Beach Placement Safety Educational Materials”
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
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Fort Myers beach replenishment project underway
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
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Dredge Stuyvesant pumping sand Melbourne Beach, FL
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
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Fernandina Beach nourishment project almost done
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