Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island, is set to get another facelift after a budget transfer was approved by Longboat Key town commissioners Monday. After an emergency dredge was completed last summer, extra sand from the project has been awaiting its new home on the Gulf side of the island. The sand will… Read More
An historic beach nourishment project, being managed by an agreement with neighboring cities Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach, has begun. A dredge began mining the Boca Inlet Shoal last Friday and is expected to have sand on Boca’s south beach by the end of this week. Then a pipeline will deliver sand to beaches in… Read More
Silver Ships recently delivered an Explorer 40 workboat to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pittsburgh District for use on the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. The 40-foot workboat will support USACE Pittsburgh District’s mission of improving navigable waterways and water infrastructure. This delivery is the second of three Explorer 40 series workboats ordered by USACE Pittsburgh… Read More
Parsons Corporation PSN announced today that the company was selected for a position on a $160 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award contract by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering and Support Center Huntsville to modernize Department of Defense facilities and infrastructure. The contract includes a base period of two years and a… Read More
Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Ore., has been awarded a $10,309,313 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N4523A22C0552 for the procurement of 14 out of scope work specifications for repair, maintenance and modernization in support of the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) docking selected restricted availability. The award comes hard on the heels of Vigor winning a $7,897,103 firm-fixed-price modification… Read More
Nashville Engineer District leaders, engineers and project managers hosted stakeholder roundtables recently to provide updates and an opportunity to visit the district’s two mega construction projects. Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, Nashville District commander, said the concept of the “roundtables” with industry and agency stakeholders is building relationships through communication, which involves hosting them at the… Read More
Twelve participants from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were chosen for ERDC University, a six-month detail at the Engineer Research and Development Center. As the largest class since ERDC-U began eight years ago, the 2023 group of selectees visited the Vicksburg, Mississippi, to begin their research projects at four ERDC laboratories. The 12… Read More
More than $27 million has been appropriated for dredging of federal waterways on the Eastern Shore — covering the federal navigation improvements the Eastern Shore Regional Navigable Waterways Committee has been fighting for since the committee’s inception eight years ago. The fiscal year 2023 Army Corps of Engineers workplan was “significantly funded after years of… Read More
Background The US Army Corps of Engineers annually dredges the mouth of the Oceanside Harbor for safe navigation of vessels. The annual dredge typically occurs in the spring with a goal of completion by Memorial Day each year. The amount of time it takes to start and complete the dredge is dependent upon many factors…. Read More
The United States Army Corps of Engineers project aiming to protect New York City against devastating storm surge is inching toward a final plan that would jumpstart a multi-billion dollar effort to bolster defenses against climate change. The U.S. Army Corps “NY-NJ Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study” (HATS) report published last year… Read More
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has restored some of the bends in Southeast Georgia’s Satilla River. Agency officials celebrated the closing of two cuts that were made in the river nearly a century ago to make it faster to ship timber. The cuts were filled in with more than 10,000 tons of rock, called rip-rap,… Read More
For more than 140 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Galveston District has tackled massive projects to provide safety and stability along a coastline stretching from Louisiana to Mexico. The scope of its efforts runs nearly as long as its history, including flood risk mitigation, ecosystem restoration, shoreline protection, navigation, military construction and emergency… Read More
McDermott has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Shell Trinidad and Tobago for the Manatee gas development project. Under the contract, McDermott will provide FEED services for a wellhead platform, export pipeline system, shore approach, midstream pipeline and onshore control room. Engineering and execution planning efforts will be led by McDermott’s team… Read More
Ocean Shipholdings has won a potential $292.7 million contract to manage transportation auxiliary general ocean surveillance and missile range instrumentation vessels for the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command. The company will operate and maintain five T-AGOS and two T-AGM units used to monitor missile launches and back commanders’ anti-submarine warfare mission in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for the Tower-Breitung municipal water treatment plant improvement project in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The project, located in the Tower-Breitung communities, would improve the filtration capabilities of the existing municipal water treatment plant and provide safer… Read More