While we (patiently?) wait for the Corps to release its FY18 Work Plan, a House Appropriations subcommittee has announced that it will vote on a Corps budget for FY19 on May 7th 4. You can get more information, including a link to watch the “markup” or business meeting here: https://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=395272 Our sources tell us the…
One Federal Decision: The White House has announced that it has come up with a way to shorten the time it takes for environmental permit reviews. Saying “No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay,” the President is quoted as declaring, “While protecting the environment, we will build…
A month ago, I bemoaned March as the month of now Federal holidays. But at its very end, it gave us Passover and the start of the baseball season. Then came Easter as we embarked on April and out came some flowers, still not any more sure than humans whether Spring had arrived here in…
The following blog post was written by Dr. Thomas Herrington, UCI Associate Director, who generously let me share his thoughts with WaterLog readers: Back-to-back nor’easters between March 1 and 8 had many residents along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard dreading the next high tide cycle. High astronomical tides combined with the powerful cyclone that developed off…
The Northeast has been hit by the third major Nor’easter storm this winter as March does its best to remind the East Coast that winter isn’t finished with us. Meteorologists are calling DC a “weather hole.” We’ve been called worse, but this honor is being bestowed because it has snowed to the south and north…
Welcome to March, the month without a Federal holiday, but the month that baseball gets started with Spring Training!! Hold onto your seats, and not just if your along those parts of the East Coast being battered by strong winds and precipitation caused by a nor’easter. We’ve got a lot to cover today. Infrastructure: …
I’ll bet you thought earmarks were already a thing of the past. WRONG Most people say that the President’s budget is dead on arrival. WRONG While Congress prohibited itself from congressionally-directed spending (aka earmarks) in 2011, they didn’t stop the President from earmarking. I’m not talking about funding this program and not funding that one. …
Corps FY19 Budget: In this update, here’s the link to the President’s Corps earmarks for FY19. As you probably know, each Corps study, project and (most) programs are funded by earmarks. The President can make his; Congress cannot make any of their own. Here’s the link to the document that provides all the information about…
Another bad year for coastal storm risk management (aka shore protection) as far as President’s budgets go. The chart below is my listing of everything I could fine in the budget for FY19 released by President Trump moments ago. There are $0 entries wherever I assumed that a study funded by the President last year…
Have we got news!! BTW, don’t forget to check out the WaterLog website at www.aldenst.com/waterlog for background info on coastal resilience, the Corps process etc. There are TWO items in this update. Funds for Corps projects in the budget bill just passed and a link to the Federal Register announcement on applications for the beneficial…