9 Jan 2023

Army Corps awards contract for Avalon and Stone Harbor beach nourishment

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District has awarded a contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Oak Brook, IL for $28.8 million to conduct periodic nourishment of the Townsends Inlet to Cape May Inlet (Avalon & Stone Harbor) dune and beachfill project. The project is a joint effort between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and the boroughs of Avalon and Stone Harbor.

3 Apr 2015

Norfolk beach expansion combats sea-level rise

Mayor Paul Fraim and other city of Norfolk leaders joined Col. Paul Olsen, Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander, along Ocean View Beach to sign a historic project partnership agreement that lays the foundation for construction of a coastal storm damage reduction project.

28 Jan 2014

Army Corps of Engineers Continues Restoring Jersey Coast Post-Sandy

The immense scope of recovery work for the Sea Bright to Manasquan project ─ divided into four contracts totaling $109.2 million ─ is pumping sand onto nearly 18 miles of shoreline with completion planned for spring 2014. A final project, a three-mile stretch from Elberon to Loch Arbour, NJ, is in the planning stage.

22 Jul 2013

Army Corps awards contract for post-Sandy beach restoration work at Coney Island, roughly 600,000 cubic yards of sand to be placed there total

USACE New York District has awarded a $7.3 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill., to place approximately 600,000 cubic yards of sand along the beach at Coney Island in the area of the previously constructed coastal storm risk reduction project there. The work is part of near-term coastal restoration efforts taking place at previously constructed coastal storm risk reduction projects throughout the region.

28 Jun 2013

2-plus million cubic yards added to Sandbridge beachfront; Big Beach completion now under way

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A five-mile hurricane protection and beach renourishment project in Sandbridge is complete.

28 Jun 2013

2-plus million cubic yards added to Sandbridge beachfront; Big Beach completion now under way

A five-mile hurricane protection and beach renourishment project in Sandbridge is complete.

24 Jun 2013

Army Corps to place more than 26 million cubic yards of sand to restore Sandy-damaged projects in Northeast

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of placing more than 26 million cubic yards of sand along the coastline throughout the northeastern United States to repair and restore coastal storm risk reduction projects previously built by the Corps that were severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The bulk of the sand, roughly 23 million cubic yards, will be placed in New York and New Jersey, but sand will also be used to restore previously constructed projects in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

23 Apr 2013

Corps begins $144K Bennett’s Creek dredging

SUFFOLK, Va. -- The Army Corps of Engineers’ dredge Currituck arrived here Saturday to dredge the federal navigation channel in Bennett’s Creek. Significant shoaling, caused by natural transport and deposit of sediment, made dredging necessary. The natural shoaling was exacerbated by Hurricane Sandy.

12 Oct 2012

Army Corps, working with NYC Parks and National Park Service, begins coastal storm risk reduction work at Plumb Beach

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, working in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and the National Park Service, will manage the placement of sand along eroded portions of Plumb Beach in Brooklyn starting today as part of the first phase of coastal storm risk reduction work.

28 Sep 2012

Army Corps awards $4.6 million contract for the maintenance dredging of East Rockaway Inlet, New York federal navigation channel

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has awarded a contract for $4.6 million to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill., for the maintenance dredging of the East Rockaway Inlet federal navigation channel with the dredged sand being placed along eroded areas of Rockaway Beach.