Posted on February 11, 2020
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $23.7 million contract to a Miami-based business for beach renourishment at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
The sand will be gathered from a borrow site located on the northern section of the Wallops Island Flight Facility.
“We are proud to be handling the oversight for this important project, which helps to reduce risk to one of the nation’s gateways to space,” said Julio Altuna, Norfolk District project manager.
The beach along Wallops was originally nourished in 2012, with a follow-on renourishment project in 2014 after Hurricane Sandy eroded sections of the beach.
“There are only a few companies equipped to handle a dredging job this big, but a much larger pool of contractors exist that can handle excavation and truck hauling material operations,” Altuna said.
This marks the first time the district has awarded a contract to Continental Heavy Civil Corp., which has done work for other districts-mostly in Florida and Georgia.
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
