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Due in part to efforts by the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA), supplemental disaster funds to dredge portions of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) are expected to add more than $25 million to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2018 budget. NMMA is a member of AIWA’s Board of Directors and is actively engaged on this issue.

The additional appropriations were earmarked for restorations to sections of the ICW damaged by recent hurricanes. While funding decisions and locations are subject to change, the Wilmington District expects to use the funds to dredge shallow draft inlet crossings in the southern end of North Carolina.

In South Carolina, the Corps’ Charleston District will focus on the stretch of the ICW between Charleston and Georgetown. This will follow a dredging project between Port Royal and Charleston. When both projects are complete, approximately two-thirds of the state will have been dredged to 10 feet deep. 

In Georgia, dredging will focus on the Jekyll Creek area, considered to be the most silted-in segment of the entire ICW. Additionally, various sections of Florida will have shoals removed.

For more information, please contact NMMA’s Vice President of State Government Relations, David Dickerson at [email protected].