Hurricane MATTHEW is on track to create a major wave event along the South Carolina coast. And that will be bad news for the oceanfront. The storm surge will be much lower than HUGO’s in 1989 because MATTHEW will track…
Click here to read CSE president Tim Kana’s editorial in The State newspaper about the benefits of beach nourishment projects along the South Carolina coast.
ASBPA presented a Best Restored Beach Award to Charleston County Parks & Recreation Commission at its annual Summit Conference in Washington (DC) in February 2016. The award recognized the Folly Beach County Park project which restored Charleston’s most popular public…
CSE’s 5.6-mile project at Bridgehampton–Sagaponack (NY) is performing well two years after completion in February 2014. The project was constructed one year after Hurricane Sandy impacted the Middle Atlantic region. CSE and project leader, First Coastal Corporation (Westhampton Beach NY),…
Kiawah spit, at the downcoast end of Kiawah Island (SC), is notoriously unstable and has breached many times over the past 500 years. An ample supply of sand from upcoast causes spit growth and accounts for westerly migration of adjacent…
Dr Tim Kana, CSE’s founder and president, received the Morrough P O’Brien Award from the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) at the 2015 National Conference in New Orleans (LA). This is ASBPA’s highest award and recognizes leaders in…
Click here to read an article from The Outer Banks Voice on how the Nags Head Beach Nourishment Project is holding up after three years.
The Town of Southampton (NY) retained CSE to design a 6-mile-long nourishment project along Bridgehampton and Sagaponack. With 100% local funding, construction began in October and was complete by February despite over 50 days lost due to winter storms. The…
ACEC-SC President, Jerry Carter, presented the award on 5 February 2013 to representatives of the project team: Dr Haiqing Kaczkowski PE, project engineer; Dr. Tim Kana, president of CSE; and Steven Traynum, assistant project manager. Funding for the $35 million…
Folly Beach County Park at the southern end of Folly Beach re-opened for business on July 2 after being shut down for two seasons due to erosion. Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission retained CSE to prepare plans, secure permits…
