Plum Island Foundation

01/27/2025

Share your thoughts on Plum Island Beach fencing! Take the survey now!

Email from Plum Island Foundation, Inc Share Your Thoughts on Plum Island Beach Fencing by Feb 4! Plum Island beach fencing by Mass Audubon Creating a Balanced Plum Island Beach for Birds AND for Peop

04/13/2023

NEWBURYPORT — Just about as fast as it arrived, the 400-foot dredger Delaware has left the area with an expansive and pristine beach in its wake.

04/05/2023

Before @ after…. Now to address a more lasting solution to keep the sand.

Before and after photos showing the beneficial use of dredged material from maintenance dredging of the Newburyport Harbor as beach nourishment, placed directly on the North Point of Plum Island in the City of Newburyport.

📷Norfolk Dredging Company

04/04/2023

NEWBURYPORT — The 400-foot-long Delaware dredger is gobbling up sand at such a prodigious pace that most of the Plum Island replenishment project could be over by the end of

04/04/2023

Recent shots from today (we**am) and Sunday. May the growth continue!

03/31/2023

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Impressive progress!

03/30/2023

https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/with-a-bigger-boat-dredging-resumes-off-plum-island/article_9ce9754e-cca9-11ed-a68e-f795a88c9275.html

NEWBURYPORT — Looking like a floating oil refinery at the mouth of the Merrimack River, the 400-foot dredger Delaware was ready to begin moving sand to the beach at Plum

03/29/2023

The beach is growing!!! Photo screenshot courtesy of Newburyport.com Mouth of the Merrimack live cam.

03/18/2023

https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/mayor-stone-structure-helped-protect-p-i-homes/article_9e10bd94-c40f-11ed-ac47-1bd4ef0faf88.html

NEWBURYPORT — While this week’s winter storm lashed Greater Newburyport for more than 24 hours starting late Monday and through Tuesday, Plum Island’s fragile coastline appears to have suffered no