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Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Ore., has been awarded a $10,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract to support the extended drydocking selected restricted availability of the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65). This modification will provide docking and pier-side services to USS Chosin (CG 65) during the performance of the extended availability… Read More
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Ocean City has been spending millions of dollars in the past few years for an ambitious dredging program to clear out sediment-choked channels and lagoons along the back bays. In some places, the sediment had been so thick that boaters were unable to navigate through the shallow lagoons at low tide. The… Read More
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, recently awarded a contract for dredging in western Michigan, on Lake Michigan. The Corps awarded a maintenance dredging contract for Holland (Outer) Harbor in June to Luedtke Engineering Company from Frankfort, Michigan. The contract (award number W911 XK20C0012) was for more than $455,000 to dredge… Read More
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command has awarded Crowley Government Services, Jacksonville, Fla., a $24,070,898 contract extension to continue the operation and maintenance of five T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships and two T-AGM missile range instrumentation ships. The extension includes one six-month base and two six-month option periods that, if exercised, would bring its cumulative value… Read More
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, awarded a contract for dredging at Duluth-Superior Harbor in western Lake Superior on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The more than $2 million contract was awarded to Roen Salvage Co., from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The contract (award number W911XK20C0014) is to dredge approximately 120,000 cubic yards of… Read More
WASHINGTON – One year after announcing the launch of the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today released Pathways to the Future of Transportation – a policy document that is intended to serve as a roadmap for innovators of new cross modal technologies to engage with the Department…. Read More
A project to deepen certain areas of the Intracoastal Waterway off Long Beach Island is expected to begin in November, nearly a year after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to address shoaling issues in the channel from Cape May north to the Island. The ICW is a 3,000-mile inland waterway running… Read More
The St. Johns River Water Management District is diving right in with a pilot project to restore the DeBary Bayou, also known as the Gemini Springs Run, by using mechanical harvesters to remove exotic and nuisance vegetation. An ambitious plan to rid DeBary Bayou of invasive and excess vegetation has begun. If successful, St. Johns… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND, Del. – The Little Assawoman Bay has never been dredged before. Boaters say they often get stuck. After a new survey, that could change. “A lot of people go out here and don’t know what’s going on,” says Jack Straughan. “They get stuck up here on the sand bar.” Straughan grew up in… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND – The results of a bathymetric survey will determine Fenwick Island’s next steps for a dredging project in the neighboring bay. This week, Delaware firm Three Chord began surveying work in the Little Assawoman Bay. In a Fenwick Island Dredging Committee meeting on Tuesday, Councilman Bernie Merritt, committee chair, said the survey would… Read More
NEWPORT BEACH—The Army Corps of Engineers will begin a small dredging project in Newport Beach Harbor this fall, which will be a precursor to a larger, harbor-wide dredging project. Public Works Administrative Manager Chris Miller gave an update about the dredging at the July 8 Harbor Commission meeting. “We’re going to be doing this project… Read More
Federal contractors remove hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and sand each year from the Toledo Harbor shipping channel to keep it deep enough for freighters plying the Great lakes to get to and from local docks. But when Ryba Marine Construction of Cheboygan, Mich., starts work in September on this year’s $2.1… Read More
Halter Marine Inc. has been awarded the contract for industrial studies for the auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship (T-AGOS(X)) program. The U.S. Navy awarded the $981,000 contract for the T-AGOS class series of vessels, which ultimately will replace the existing fleet of four T-AGOS 19 and one T-AGOS 23 small waterplane area twin hull (SWATH)… Read More
Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has won a Military Sealift Command contract for the drydocking of the dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE-12), beating out two competitors. The contract has a base period value of $6,945,365 and a total contract value of $7,401,291 Detyens Shipyards was awarded the USNS McLean on July 6, 2020…. Read More
Dallas is making plans to dredge White Rock Lake to remove 22 years of sediment that’s been deposited in the lake from White Rock Creek. A dredging feasibility study presented at a virtual meeting on the plan Thursday night shows more than half of the lake has a depth of fewer than ten feet. The… Read More