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Governor Larry Hogan and the state Board of Public Works (BPW) today approved contracts with two Maryland companies to study use of sediment from shipping channels leading to the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore for innovative purposes such as creation of structural concrete. The contracts follow three others recently approved by the BPW to… Read More
Poplar Island Expansion Completion News Release 28JAN21
Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Ore., has been awarded a $21,543,401 firm-fixed-price contract for a 76-calendar day shipyard availability. The work to be performed provides services for the regular overhaul availability and dry-docking of the fleet oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202). The contract also contains 11 unexercised options that, if exercised, would increase its cumulative contract… Read More
FEMA has approved more than $1 billion in federal disaster assistance, long-term disaster loans and flood insurance claims since Hurricanes Laura and Delta hit the state in 2020. Laura made landfall in Louisiana in late August 2020 and Delta in mid-October. Over $110 million has been paid in flood claims to 3,249 policyholders by the… Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021) Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program on January 19, 2021, which included funding appropriations for the Deep Creek Bridge Replacement Project in Chesapeake, Virginia in the amount of $12,657,000. The Work Plan identifies the projects, programs,… Read More
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published Engineer Circular 1110-2-6075, “Inundation Maps and Emergency Action Plans and Incident Management for Dams and Levee Systems,” in October. This update allows for the use and public dissemination of inundation maps in emergency action plans (EAP) and the National Inventory of Dams (NID), It also provides… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has taken steps to implement its Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP)—a dual-purpose program for navigation improvements and ecosystem restoration along the Upper Mississippi River system. Specifically, in 2004 the Corps identified 24 navigation improvement projects and 1,010 ecosystem restoration projects and proposed a plan for implementing them…. Read More
Sterling Shipyard LP, Port Naches, Texas, has been awarded an $8,980,400 firm-fixed-price contract for services to build, test, and deliver a new deck barge that will be paired with a government purchased crawler crane to form a crane barge. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work will be performed in Port Naches,… Read More
The Memphis District Commander Col. Zachary Miller, district leadership, and members of the Project Delivery Team gathered on the Mississippi Riverbanks in Arkansas for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a bank armoring project, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The celebrated project was a task order in Crittenden County, Arkansas, which was awarded to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Poseidon Barge Ltd., Berne, Ind., an $8,379,000 modification to contract W912BU-19-P-0051 for the purchase of and modification to the structure of pontoons. Work will be performed in Berne, with an estimated completion date of May 26, 2022. Fiscal 2019 revolving funds in the amount of $8,379,000 were… Read More
Funding will help complete planning for 50-year replenishment project The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will allocate an additional $1.5 million for the planning, engineering and design of a federal sand project expected to beef up beaches in Encinitas and Solana Beach for the next 50 years, Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, announced Friday…. Read More
20-10i Channel Maintenance Dredging Potter 27JAN21 Update
RICHMOND, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — A boat landing that normally gives people access to the James River will be closed temporarily beginning next week. The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources says Osborne Landing will be closed between Jan. 25 and March 1. According to a release, the closing will allow for dredging of sediment that… Read More
Shive-Hattery, Fyra Engineering and Barr Engineering Company, were among the three out-of-state firms that proposed their statement of interest plans to lead a future Lake Mitchell dredging project. Three engineering firms seeking to lead a future Lake Mitchell dredging project pitched their proposals to the city on Thursday. Shive-Hattery, Fyra Engineering and Barr Engineering were… Read More
U.S. Representative Clay Higgins, who represents most of Acadiana in Congress, has announced federal funds that are being made available for dredging and waterway projects, as well as community health centers across the region. First, over $600,000.00 is being made available in supplemental funding for three 3rd District community health centers as part of the… Read More