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Contents: New Jersey – Atlantic City Builds Sea Wall to Support Boardwalk Maine – Dredge projects to be decided New jersey – N.J. Resilient Coastlines Initiative Champions Natural Solutions for Erosion, Flooding Massachusetts – Sea Level Rise and the March of King Tides: Why We Need to Get Familiar with This Week’s Tidal Flooding Texas – USACE Galveston District awards $4.8 million maintenance dredging contract for Houston Ship Channel Washington – Contaminated Sediment Removal to begin at Pier 4 by the Port of Tacoma Finland – Dredging for Port of Bronka a threat to Gulf of Finland Panama – Cause of Panama Canal Leak Identified Germany – Hamburg completes lock rebuild Australia – South Coast beach erosion worse than predicted, says experts France – Dunkerque-port’s ongoing ecological developments: The Salt Basins New Jersey – Atlantic City Builds Sea Wall to Support Boardwalk Oct 01, 2015 12:20 pm | Coastal News Today Changes are coming to Atlantic City’s boardwalk by the section at the end of Pacific Avenue, known as Gardener’s Basin. The city plans to make it more efficient in fighting storm damage. “What we’re doing right now is building a sea wall in some section and a rock jetty in another,” said Donald A. Guardian, Atlantic City Mayor. “We’re replacing the entir... Read more.. Go To Article Maine – Dredge projects to be decided Oct 01, 2015 12:19 pm | Coastal News Today The Army Corps of Engineers is submitting proposals for federal funding of two dredging maintenance projects on the Saco River and one at Wood Island by Biddeford Pool. The corps proposes to have all projects funded at the same time in order to save mo... Read more.. Go To Article New jersey – N.J. Resilient Coastlines Initiative Champions Natural Solutions for Erosion, Flooding Oct 01, 2015 12:19 pm | Coastal News Today Funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Resilience Networks Program has helped local conservation partners come together to provide New Jersey’s coastal communities with natural options to reduce shoreline erosion and flooding. The Nature Conservancy, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, American Littoral Society, Barnegat Bay Partnership and Pa... Read more.. Go To Article Massachusetts – Sea Level Rise and the March of King Tides: Why We Need to Get Familiar with This Week’s Tidal Flooding Oct 01, 2015 12:19 pm | Coastal News Today This week, many residents of the U.S. East Coast communities are witnessing flood waters rise with each high tide. These people are getting a taste of the future. Almost like being picked to try out some futuristic device for a few days — only this is messy, costly, and, if you realize it’s a taste of things to come, unnerving. Unwilling pioneers, in a way, these people are living on the front line of se... Read more.. Go To Article Texas – USACE Galveston District awards $4.8 million maintenance dredging contract for Houston Ship Channel Oct 01, 2015 12:19 pm | Coastal News Today The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $4,848,500 to Weeks Marine Inc. for maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel from Exxon to Carpenters Bayou in Harris County, Texas. The contractor will be required to remove approximately 600,000 cubic yards of maintenance material using a pipeline dredge. “The Port of Houston is one of the wor... Read more.. Go To Article Washington – Contaminated Sediment Removal to begin at Pier 4 by the Port of Tacoma Oct 01, 2015 12:19 pm | Coastal News Today The Port of Tacoma began dredging contaminated sediments in Blair Waterway on September 15 in preparation to expand Pier 4. The Port detected a marine biocide, called tributyltin, while completing a dredging inspection for the site evaluation to expand Pier 4 for larger ships. The Port of Tacoma has agreed to complete the cleanup of the sediments, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag... Read more.. Go To Article Finland – Dredging for Port of Bronka a threat to Gulf of Finland Oct 01, 2015 12:18 pm | Coastal News Today A massive dredging project is under-way on the bottom of the Gulf of Finland in Russia. The amount of dredging required for the Port of Bronka, a deepwater port under construction south of Kronstadt, is so high that the cloudiness of the water is discernible from space, with recent satellite pictures showing that the cloudy water has dispersed dozens of kilometres west on the Gulf of Finland. Dredging increases the cloudiness... Read more.. Go To Article Panama – Cause of Panama Canal Leak Identified Oct 01, 2015 12:18 pm | Coastal News Today The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that the leak that occurred in the concrete sill between the lower and middle chamber of the Canal’s expanded Pacific Locks was the result of insufficient steel reinforcing. The information came from Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A. (GUPC), the contractor responsible for the design and construction of the Third Set of Locks. GUPC wrote that the localized... Read more.. Go To Article Germany – Hamburg completes lock rebuild Oct 01, 2015 12:18 pm | Coastal News Today The Rugenberger Schleuse, an important central access lock in the Port of Hamburg, is being re-opened to traffic this autumn after being rebuilt as part of a giant port infrastructure development programme lasting until about 2019 and costing about €110 million. The lock rebuilding is just one of a number of port civil engineering proje... Read more.. Go To Article Australia – South Coast beach erosion worse than predicted, says experts Oct 01, 2015 12:18 pm | Coastal News Today Canberrans off to their favourite little beach on the South Coast this long weekend could be surprised at their new layout. Researchers say coastal erosion is likely to be more extreme in future because of El Nino and La Nina influences. Andy Short has been keeping an eye on Moruya and Pedro beaches for eight years on the South Coast, and says the latest beach rotations, which are making the northern ends wider an... Read more.. Go To Article France – Dunkerque-port’s ongoing ecological developments: The Salt Basins Oct 01, 2015 12:18 pm | Coastal News Today Thursday 24 September 2015 saw the latest edition of the «Sustainability Mornings» organised by Dunkerque-Port. These events are an opportunity for the Port to discuss, with the hundred or so partners attending, its different actions in the field of sustainable development. This new edition focused mainly on the theme of biodiversity, a real challenge for the entire port district, and allowed the Port to share its vision for the... Read more.. 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