After 2 1/2 years of studying muck at the bottom of the St. Lucie River, scientists say they have found a better way to dig out the seagrass-smothering gunk in the $1 billion local Everglades ...

Thickening for years below the surface, a blanket of muck on the floor of Lake Osborne has robbed oxygen from the water, stifled plant and fish life and spurred blooms of algae and unwanted weeds. Now ...

Hydraulic dredging in a canal at Tortosie Island in Satellite Beach. Scenes of the dredging project on the Grand Canal near Pineda Causeway which is part of the Save Our Indian Lagoon Plan. They are ...

The Indian River Lagoon (IRL), one of Florida’s most biologically diverse estuaries, continues to face a serious environmental threat: muck. This fine-grained, organic-rich sediment looks like black ...

For too many years, we have had a spate of semi-dictatorial organizations fighting for power and control over our waterways — each agency professing that its experts are more expert than those of ...

The county is firmly committed to following the science to determine the best strategy to facilitate the Indian River Lagoon’s recovery. Science says muck dredging is a critical part of the strategy ...

Florida is home to one of North America's most biologically diverse estuaries, the Indian River Lagoon, and it's not doing well. It's choked with decomposing lawn clippings, leaves, sediment, ...

Now that the Lake Tohopekaliga drawdown has been okayed by regulatory officials, biologists are turning their effort to getting approval to remove thousands of tons of muck from the bottom of the lake ...

PALM BAY — A dredge this month is removing the organic muck that Hurricane Irma pushed out from underneath docks and into just-deepened parts of Turkey Creek. This $1.7 million dredging project began ...