Articles Tagged with ''Coastal Restoration''

The Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project would restore the San Francisco beach while creating barriers to ensure nearby infrastructure can withstand the impacts of coastal erosion.

Through a series of flood walls and guide walls, the MBSD will mechanically deliver what Mother Nature once did by recreating a riverine and estuarine collaboration resembling the previous natural process. 

New master plan, if implemented, could eventually produce annual cost savings of between $10.7 billion to $14.5 billion, state officials say.

Plans for a multiple lines of defense strategy to protect the Texas Gulf Coast from hurricanes and storm surge moves to Congress for approval with the release of a final feasibility report and final environmental impact statement from the Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office that proposes $28.87 billion in coastal protection projects.

Industry leaders and lawmakers in Louisiana are eyeing infrastructure projects as the remedy for a coronavirus-plagued economy.

Joint venture will design 26.7-mile-long coastal system near Galveston in a two-year effort, with construction to finish by 2026.

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.

Projects to protect and rebuild Louisiana’s coast would be accelerated under a draft update to the state’s coastal master plan.