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East Coast Repair & Fabrication LLC, Portsmouth, Va., has been awarded an $8,719,597 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220522C4198) for an 85-calendar day shipyard availability. The contract is for the mid-term availability of the Military Sealift Command’s fleet oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195). This contract includes a base period and four options, which, if exercised, would bring… Read More
SURF CITY — The Town of Surf City has waited forever — literally — to renourish its beaches. Now, it will have to wait a little longer after North Topsail Beach pulled out of a joint federal project that would provide partial funds. The neighboring towns were tied together, based on proximity and project scope,… Read More
This week, Florida’s two U.S. senators–Republicans Marco Rubio and Rick Scott–wrote to Michael Connor, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, prior to the Army Corps Engineers finalizing their supplemental work plan for Fiscal Years 2022 through 2024, to ensure that “all proposed and ongoing projects in Florida receive full and fair… Read More
All members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are pushing for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to include funding for Oregon’s port infrastructure as the agency implements the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. A release from Senator Jeff Merkley said in a letter sent to the Army Corps and the Office of… Read More
A pipeline developer will dredge part of a contaminated lake and pay more than $4 million for spilling thousands of gallons of drilling fluids at a popular state park outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania state officials announced Monday in a settlement that will allow construction to resume. Sunoco Pipeline LP will dredge at least six inches of… Read More
Toiling through nearly two years of remote meetings, a 14-member partnership last week completed a comprehensive plan to save miles of marshlands in the northeastern corner of North Carolina. The Currituck Sound Coalition Marsh Conservation Plan released Tuesday is the culmination of a goal seeded more than a decade ago, when Audubon North Carolina started… Read More
Another piece of the complex beach nourishment puzzle has been put in place, as federal regulators have granted approval to four northern Outer Banks towns to have sand from offshore pumped onto their beaches starting next spring. As part of its efforts to support local economies and protect coastal communities and habitats from the impacts… Read More
The Dare County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to award a $25.87 million bid to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. for the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects. The county received bids for the project on Nov. 17 from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Manson Construction Co. and Weeks Marine. Great… Read More
Douglas County is lending a hand to a project planned for Duluth. The land and development committee approved an agreement Nov. 30 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granting access for remedial construction work at Munger Landing. Douglas County owns the riparian rights in the area that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency selected for a… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND – A new partnership could allow a dredging project in Fenwick Island to move forward. Last Thursday, the Fenwick Island Dredging Committee convened to discuss the next steps in pursuing a partnership with Seatowne, a private community north of Fenwick Island. Officials say the idea is to use dredged materials from a town-led… Read More
To close out the two-day sprint across five states, the Memphis District held two final ribbon-cutting ceremonies on Nov. 18, 2021. Both events celebrated construction projects completed in Arkansas and Missouri. The first celebration acknowledged a project in Greene County, Arkansas. There, contractors addressed a damaged levee culvert and erosion caused by previous flood events…. Read More
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD) today announced it is among 12 firms selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center (USACE) in Huntsville, Alabama as one of the awardees on a $1.136 billion shared-capacity contract for chemical, environmental and munitions remediation services. Services provided under the contract… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District awarded a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) to six Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) companies on Nov. 29, 2021. Simply put, a MATOC is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded to multiple firms following a formal selection process. It provides for an indefinite quantity… Read More
Officials with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and the Charleston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently conducted a walk-through inspection of the completed Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary restoration project with project contractor Norfolk Dredging Company. Norfolk began placing approximately 660,000 cubic yards of compatible material from the Charleston Harbor Deepening “Post… Read More
Senators call on Corps to tackle backlog of dredging projects for small ports and channels, quickly transition from Poplar Island to Mid-Bay restoration U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (Both D-Md.) wrote Monday to the newly confirmed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, who leads the Army Corps of Engineers, spotlighting the major priorities across… Read More