Arcadian Shores is a section of South Carolina's Grand Strand between
North Myrtle Beach and Myrtle Beach. It is home to Hilton Hotel
Resort, Kingston Plantation, and several major residential towers.
While the cities immediately north and south are part of a
50-year federal beach nourishment project, Arcadian Shores is not
included. However, Horry County, which has jurisdiction over
Arcadian Shores, with funding assistance from the state of South
Carolina, has taken the initiative to maintain and improve the beach...
(click here for continued story)
Current progress on the 2008 Isle of Palms Renourishment project can be found in the photo gallery,
including progress maps showing what has and has not been done so far
in each reach area and general pictures of the job sites. The
progress maps can be found in the album "Progress of 2008 Beach
Restoration" under the 2008 Isle of Palms Renourishment album, and they
will be updated on a regular basis as the project continues.
We have a new feature on the site - an online photo gallery. There
is an album there of the ongoing work on the
current Isle of Palms renourishment project; look for more
pictures of our work there and more albums of our other projects in the
next few weeks!
Welcome aboard our newest staff member, Matt Goldie. Matt filled
our Columbia office's opening for a CAD Engineering Technician, working
under our Senior Engineering Technician, Trey Hair.
After 13 years on Devine Street, CSE moved to new quarters at 160 Gills
Creek Parkway on August 1st. The new office gives us some
much-needed space so we can accommodate new staff and store all our
field equipment (which has expanded as our firm has grown).
Watch
for an announcement of our open house later in fall 2007. (It
will take us a couple of months to unpack over 20 years’
worth of
reports and archives from our 400+ projects over the years.)
Our phone numbers and normal mailing address remain the same.
Overnight shipping address changes to 160 Gills Creek Parkway Columbia
SC 29209.
Thank you for your patience earlier in August as we made the move and
temporarily lost communication with you.
Three CSE beach nourishment projects were
completed in record time between April 1st and July 31st. Thanks to
cooperating weather, efficient contractors, and timely decisions by
state and federal regulators, visitors to Edisto Beach, Hunting Island,
and Kiawah Island will enjoy wider beaches for the remainder of the
season.
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Renourished
Edisto Beach |
Edisto Beach was nourished
between 2 April and
11 May. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLD&D)
(using the
dredge Illinois) pumped 875,000 cubic yards (cy) of sand from an
offshore shoal to the oceanfront. Nearly 3.5 miles of shoreline were
widened by an average of about 75 feet (ft). This was Edisto's
largest-ever nourishment project and more than five times the size of
the last project in 1995.
(Read
more. . .)
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Renourished
Hunting Island |
Beach nourishment at nearby Hunting Island was
completed between 20 May and 12 June. GLD&D moved their
equipment
across St Helena Sound and pumped 570,000 cy of sand from a borrow area
two miles offshore. This year's project was Hunting Island's eighth
nourishment since 1968 and will prepare the beach for groin
construction. Federal and state agencies granted a time extension on
their permits so that work could be accomplished in a timely manner at
lower cost while the dredge Illinois was "in the neighborhood."
(Read
more . . .)
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Renourished
Kiawah Island |
CSE's third project of the season was at the eastern end of Kiawah
Island.
L Dean Weaver Construction Company moved 550,000 cy of sand by trucks
and restored a one-mile section of beach along the famed Ocean Course.
This area had eroded over 400 ft in the past five years because of a
shoal-bypassing event. Work on this project was timed around the
arrival of piping plovers that inhabit the area. Sand hauling began 8
June and was completed on 26 July.
(Read
more . . .)
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CSE helped save
the sportfishing vessel, Fishing Taxi,
out of Oregon Inlet (NC) on July 7th. "We were on our way out of the
inlet to continue offshore coring for the Town of Nags Head when we
heard a mayday," according to Philip McKee, CSE's captain.
Read more ...
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Brunei |
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Charleston, SC
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Coastal
Primer |
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Debidue Island, SC |
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Edisto Island, SC |
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Edisto Island, SC
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Hunting Island, SC |
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Hurricane
Hugo |
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Kiawah Island |
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Kuwait |
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Kuwait
Al-Khiran |
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Matthews, VA |
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Nags Head, NC |
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New
Bern, NC |
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St. Lucia, West Indies |
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Savannah, GA |
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Seabrook
Island, SC |
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Seabrook
Island, SC |
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Washington,
NC |
CSE welcomes Steven Traynum to the firm. Steven is a recent
graduate of the University of South Carolina (MS, marine
science). He specializes in coastal and estuarine processes
and
already has two refereed papers in print or in press. He has
collaborated with USC faculty scientists on projects for the South
Carolina Department of Natural Resources and has worked with staff at
the Baruch Institute.
Steven brings considerable expertise in field surveys involving ADCPs,
CTDs, pressure sensors, and measurements of suspended sediment using
Laser In Situ Scanning Transmissometers (LISST). Steven is a
certified diver, adding further depth to CSE’s complement of
research divers.
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