JoAnne Castagna

ARTICLES BY JOANNE CASTAGNA

• A Collaboration That Runs Deep: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers And Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

  3/16/2026

  New York City, the cultural and economic power we know today, grew from the waterways that run through it. Over the years, the deepening and widening of the Port of New York and New Jersey allowed ships to bring in goods and foster trade, but maintenance dredging must be performed on a regular basis.
• Planting The Seeds Of Inspiration: Eelgrass Restoration

  2/4/2026

  Restoring eelgrass beds is critical because they provide habitat for many kinds of marine life, improve water quality by filtering out pollution, and the plant’s root system stabilizes the sediment on the seafloor, protecting shorelines from erosion.

• Seawall Will Raise Quality Of Life For Shore Communities In Staten Island, New York

  10/8/2024

  During the intense winds and flooding of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Joseph McAllister, an electrician, was driving around South Beach, Staten Island, New York trying to help his neighbors stranded in the dark.

• Community RISES To Occasion For Coastal Restoration Project

  8/7/2024

  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District is collaborating with RISE (Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity) and other partners to make Rockaway Beach more resilient to coastal storm erosion and flooding that has increased due to more frequent and stronger coastal storms.

• Army Corps Protects Plant That Helps Protect Shore

  5/1/2024

  An eroded coast puts the shoreline community at risk for flooding from storms, so the Army Corps has been replenishing the eroded sand and increasing the size of the beach to help protect the community. This has been done in part thanks to the discovery of a federally threatened coastal plant that hadn’t been seen in the region for almost a century.

• Coastal Project Sheds Light On Importance Of Community Collaboration

  11/2/2023

  In the 1970s, if you took a helicopter ride from New York City to the Montauk Point Lighthouse that sits on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, you could have spotted a woman in her 60s crawling along the 65-foot cliff under the beacon, packing and shaping earth with her bare hands and her small garden hoe.

• Preserving An Iconic Beach For Future Generations

  6/6/2023

  When Rifat Salim came to the United States from Pakistan as a young girl with her mother and siblings to reunite with her father after years of being a part, one of the first places he suggested they visit is Coney Island, a famous beach and amusement park destination in Brooklyn, New York City that’s visited by more than 5 million people annually.

• U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Leads The Way In Natural Solutions For Coastal Flooding

  3/2/2023

  Last spring, Dr. Todd Bridges and his colleagues were visiting a part of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge in California, a remote region that encompasses 45,000 acres of rivers, woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands.

• Restoring NY-NJ Estuary Will Create Breathtaking Views And More

  12/14/2022

  The Army Corps of Engineers, with partnering agencies, is using funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to revitalize marsh islands in Jamaica Bay. It’s part of a larger project to restore the degrading estuary in New York and New Jersey.

• Restoring Bird Habitats While Sustaining Ours

  8/11/2022

  This past spring, Dr. Lenore Tedesco was looking out her window at The Wetlands Institute that sits in the middle of vast marshland in Cape May County, New Jersey.