On August 16, 2022, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD) delivered the last load for CSE’s second beach nourishment project at the Village of Buxton. The project used two dredges (Ellis Island and Liberty Island) to pump 1.2 million…
CSE and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD) have completed the 1 million cubic yard Avon Village beach nourishment project. The project included using two dredges (Ellis Island and Liberty Island) to nourish two and a half miles (13,200…
CSE welcomes new bookkeeper and office administrator, Chasity Corder. She brings over 15 years of experience in office management, accounting, and human resource management to the organization. Graduating from Southern Wesleyan University, Chasity earned a Bachelor of Science with a…
CSE is pleased to continue our 8-year partnership with SCDHEC-OCRM (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management) to monitor South Carolina’s beaches through their BERM (Beach Erosion Research and Monitoring) project. As…
CSE received the 2021 Coastal Beacon Award at the North Carolina Beaches Inlets and Waterways Association (NCBIWA) annual conference in Wilmington on 4 November 2021. The award is presented annually to a member in good standing of the Association for…
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,…
