Emergency Dredge Operation Begins In Worcester County

Emergency Dredge Operation Begins In Worcester County

OCEAN CITY, Md. -- A crew with the Army Corps of Engineers arrived in Ocean City on Wednesday afternoon, ready to take another whack at the inlet's shoaling problem.

Division OKs dredging, Milne pad work - July 13, 2025

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas has approved annual maintenance dredging of the West Dock Causeway at the Hilcorp North Slope-operated Prudhoe Bay unit and installation of chemical injection containment modules at R Pad in Hilcorp Alaska's Milne Point unit. In it...

Waterways Commission takes steps to keep the Rodanthe-Stumpy Point emergency ferry channel navigable

After wrestling for years to secure timely maintenance of the Rodanthe-Stumpy Point emergency ferry channel for Hatteras Island, the Dare County Waterways Commission decided on Monday that the best solution would be for the county to secure the permits to have its local dredge do the work.The commission had agreed last month to request modification of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers’ permit that would allow mechanical dredging of a troublesome a…

Worcester County begins dredging project ahead of White Marlin Open

Thanks to federal partners, crews have begun dredging about 10,000 cubic yards of material in the Ocean City Harbor, Inlet and Isle of Wight Bay Channel. State Sen. Mary Beth Carozza expressed gratitude to town officials, Worcester County government and her constituents for helping move the request forward. “We work together to make these requests so that they know, at the federal level, this dredging is absolutely essential for our commercial f…