The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced two grant programs for Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC). These are funding sources all coastal communities should consider. The FMA grant program funds states, local communities,…
The IPCC’s1 sixth assessment report (AR6) was released in August 2021, and it offers some firm conclusions. With less equivocation, the United Nations panel that prepared AR6 provides the strongest evidence to date and concludes: sea levels are rising faster and…
CSE’s first nourishment events were in the 1980s with projects at Seabrook Island, Isle of Palms, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. With each decade, we have had opportunities to restore many beaches, with volumes doubling each decade from the 1990s…
Fellow members of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) recently published a refereed article on the history of beach nourishment in the U.S. (Elko et al. 2021) in the Journal of Ocean & Coastal Management (JOCM – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569120303136?via%3Dihub).…
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down much of the world in March 2020, CSE and contractor Marinex Construction (Charleston, SC) completed the Pawleys Island (SC) Beach Restoration Project. Pay surveys in April confirmed delivery of 1,132,420 cubic yards,…
Regarding our Services During COVID-19 March 31, 2020 – We at CSE are committed to continuing to provide quality services during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. At the same time, we recognize that adjustments must be made due to the impact…
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD – Oakbrook IL) began pumping the 8th nourishment project along Hunting Island on 4 February. GLDD’s cutterhead dredge, Alaska, was towed into place two miles offshore of the lighthouse this week and will pump…
The 2019 beach renourishment project at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina was completed August 2019 by the Contractor, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, Inc (GLDD, Oak Brook, Illinois). A total of four million cubic yards of sand was…
ASBPA presented its highest project award to the City of Myrtle Beach at the annual conference. Named after Professor Robert L Wiegel, distinguished coastal engineer at University of California-Berkeley, the award recognizes a project that has stood the test of…
CSE is currently managing the Pawleys Island 1.1 million cubic yard beach renourishment project spanning 2.6 miles of oceanfront. As of October 22, 2019, the Marinex Construction cutter dredge, Savannah, began pumping sand from a borrow area 2-3 miles south…
