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NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District recently awarded the first of two vegetation and tree clearing contracts for work related to the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Risk Reduction Project (WSLP) in St. Charles, St. John and St. James parishes. The $3.06M contract was awarded to Quality First Construction LLC.,… Read More
WATSONVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Granite (NYSE:GVA) and Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc. announced today that their joint venture team has been awarded a $27 million joint venture contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest for the construction of maintenance dredging at Piers 1, 3, and Paleta Creek at Naval Base San Diego. The contract includes one unexercised… Read More
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another one of the dozens of levee repair contracts expected along the Missouri River has been awarded to an Iowa company. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the $8.5 million contract to repair a levee in Mills County, Iowa, has been awarded to Newt Marine Service of Dubuque, Iowa. The… Read More
THREE OAKS — The long-awaited dredging of the Three Oaks sewer lagoons, a project which has been repeatedly delayed by weather conditions, is now scheduled for a two-week period in July. Saying the village has to move forward, Village President Dave Grosse asked that Village Manager Mike Greene have a “Plan B” ready if the… Read More
HOUSTON, May 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”), a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award of approximately $15 million. The Company’s Marine segment was recently awarded a contract from the North Carolina State Ports Authority for the construction of the Turning Basin Expansion project in… Read More
Work will begin in June on a massive cleanup project on the St. Louis River in Duluth, removing tons of wood waste from an old sawmill site at Grassy Point and removing flood-dumped sediment at the mouth of Kingsbury Creek. The combined efforts will rehabilitate 240 acres total and cost more than $15 million and… Read More
CHICAGO — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and East Chicago Waterway Management District will hold a public meeting to present this year’s Indiana Harbor and Canal dredging schedule and activities: WHEN: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 WHERE: City Hall, Annex Building, 4444 Railroad Ave., East Chicago, Ind. TIME: 6 p.m. The contractors, a joint venture… Read More
Gray skies might have welcomed the rowers from approximately 100 colleges and universities beginning competition Friday at the 81st Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta on the Schuylkill River, but Jim Hanna wore a smile that brightened the official welcome gathering. “Going ahead with the river dredging, we can say the Dad Vail Regatta is here to… Read More
BRECKSVILLE, Ohio — The Friends of the Crooked River have awarded a contract to remove the the 8-foot-tall, 183-foot-long Brecksville dam from the Cuyahoga, to free a path for fish to swim and kayakers to paddle. Kokosing Industrial Inc.’s demolition of the dam in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park this year should improve water quality… Read More
After a couple of years of waiting for the approval on a construction permit to expand the Owsley Fork Dam in Berea, the city has gotten the green light from the Army Corp of Engineers to move ahead with the project. The $12 million project plans to increase the wall by additional 6 feet, which… Read More
Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) – Dredging will begin in the coming weeks in the Port of Rochester and surrounding harbor. The Buffalo District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday it awarded a $1.5 million contract to a Michigan-based company to dredge in the federal navigation channel and harbor areas of the harbor. Work… Read More
It’s part of the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC) on the lake. Work will be funded through a cost-sharing partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the city of Superior and Fraser Shipyards. SUPERIOR, Wis.-The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $13.8 million cleanup of Howards Bay in Superior. It’s part… Read More
HOUGHTON COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) – With dredging work set to start off the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior, the Buffalo Reef Task Force has prepared a summary responding to public comments made on a Draft Preliminary Alternatives Analysis issued earlier this year. The alternatives analysis issued in February briefly described 13 strategies for managing historic… Read More
Planning for a new major cruise ship terminal for Seattle, the fourth berth for the city’s booming cruise ship industry, is quickly advancing towards the start of construction. The Port of Seattle plans to build a US$200-million cruise ship berth at the north end of Terminal 46 — near Pioneer Square and Century Link Field… Read More
MARSHFIELD — For Brant Rock residents, the first sign of summer isn’t the open ice cream shops or flip-flops hitting the sand. It’s the 160-foot dredging vessel that takes over Green Harbor. Almost every year, the Army Corps of Engineers comes to Marshfield to remove tens of thousands of cubic yards of sediment from the… Read More