Pass Chaland is one of the most idyllic spots along the barrier islands off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. But the broad tidal flow of soft, white-capped waves, flowing inland through shell-tiled sands and ...

“So, look at these boats, it looks like giant vacuum cleaner. And that’s what it does, it’s basically sterilizing the bottom of the sea by extracting sand and crunching all the microorganisms that are ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

An ocean-going hopper dredge pulls sand from deposits on the seafloor, usually at depths of 30 feet or more. It stores the sand in the vessel’s hull and, when full, takes the sand to a destination ...

Paul Ferber was scuba diving in Cambodia’s Sre Ambil River shortly after ships had finished dredging the area. As director of Marine Conservation Cambodia, Ferber was used to seeing the Cambodian ...

A 50-year beach nourishment project starting this fall in San Clemente will get its sand offshore from another sand-starved beach town — Oceanside. The “borrow pit” chosen for the federal project is ...

Crews have placed a dredge pipe on Ponce Inlet beaches. The Army Corps of Engineers is conducting maintenance of the Ponce de Leon Inlet and Intracoastal Waterway. Beachside Ponce Inlet residents and ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.