Means of avoidance and minimization of coral reef impacts during offshore coastal construction projects
"Construction projects described include offshore fiber optic cable (FOC) installations and offshore LNG (liquefied natural gas) pipelines. Five corporations that currently have permits are named as well as many, many un-permitted and military installatio...
Existing and emerging innovative technologies for coastal construction: Silent Inspector monitoring of dredging equipment
"The different types of dredging equipment are reviewed: hopper dredge, clamshell dredge, cutterhead dredge, and the excavator/backhoe. Developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Silent Inspector (SI) is an automated dredge monitoring system consisting...
"The science behind the creation of artificial reefs is presented. Case studies and monitoring examples are provided that show how offshore reefs naturally protect the coastline. Offshore submerged reefs function as dissipaters (they reduce wave energy at...
Sand bypassing at stabilitzed inlet: Sustaining restored beaches in Broward County
"Sand bypassing is used when inlet navigation features block the alongshore drift of sand. Stabilized inlets cause the interruption of alongshore drift leading to 85% of the beach erosion in Florida. The goal of bypassing is to capture sand on the updrift...
Assessing the environmental impacts of beach nourishment: Universal lessons about the need for rigorous design and effective process to assess projects of all kinds
"This presentation discusses the increasing rates of shoreline retreat and increasing shoreline development, and that dredge-and-fill programs are increasingly employed to protect against shoreline erosion. Such beach nourishment can degrade other beach h...
Maritime Industry and Coastal Construction Impacts Workshop, Dania Beach, Florida, May 24-25, 2006
"Objectives of this workshop: Identify activities or actions, which have the potential to have minimal/maximal effectiveness toward the protection of coral reefs, hard/live bottoms and associated coral reef resources. Identify innovative technologies that...
Geological importance of sand compatibility for sustaining beaches: Economically wasteful and environmentally damaging beach "renourishment"
"Why does it matter to use the right sand?? Off Floridas beaches are valuable coral, hard-bottom and fish habitats that are severely degraded or destroyed by sediment smothering, siltation, persistent turbidity, and reduced light penetration. The problem ...
"The Department of Environmental Protection, (formally the Department of Natural Resources) is directed to sponsor (or co-sponsor) and review new or innovative technologies for beach nourishment and, on a limited basis, authorize, through the permitting p...
Means of avoidance and minimization of coral reef impacts during offshore coastal construction projects
"The science behind the creation of artificial reefs is presented. Case studies and monitoring examples are provided that show how offshore reefs naturally protect the coastline. Offshore submerged reefs function as dissipaters (they reduce wave energy at...
"This presentation discusses the increasing rates of shoreline retreat and increasing shoreline development, and that dredge-and-fill programs are increasingly employed to protect against shoreline erosion. Such beach nourishment can degrade other beach h...