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The Chicago District is geared up to put an additional $27.8 million to work from the Fiscal Year 2024 Civil Works appropriations. Congress allocated a hefty $8.681 billion for the Army Civil Works Program, spreading across various crucial areas like Investigations, Construction, Operation and Maintenance, Mississippi River and Tributaries, and Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded a $6.9 million contract yesterday to Southwind Construction of Evansville, Indiana, for maintenance dredging of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (IWW) federal navigation channel in the vicinity of Sawpit Creek, Nassau County, Florida. The contract calls for the dredging of approximately 550,000 cubic yards of shoaling from IWW… Read More
Coastline Consulting & Development LLC,* Branford, Connecticut, is awarded a $13,636,768 firm-fixed-price contract to complete maintenance dredging at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Work will be performed in Kittery, Maine, and is expected to be completed by March 2025. Fiscal 2024 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $13,636,768 will be obligated at time of… Read More
Southern Dredging Co. Inc.,* Charleston, South Carolina, was awarded a $9,634,700 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Saint Marys, Georgia, with an estimated completion date of March 26, 2025. Fiscal 2024 civil construction funds in the amount of $9,634,700 were obligated at… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, received a total of $17.6 million in the fiscal year 2024 work plan for Army civil works to bolster navigation and structures across lakes Erie and Ontario. The total FY24 budget, to include the conferenced budget and work plan, exceeds $226.2 million, paving the way for significant environmental,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District received a total of $17.6 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 Work Plan for Army Civil Works to bolster navigation and structures across lakes Erie and Ontario. The total FY24 budget, to include the Conferenced Budget and Work Plan, exceeds $226.2 million, paving the way for significant… Read More
Duke Energy says it plans to begin dredging coal ash out of a North Carolina river as state officials move to scuttle a previously proposed settlement with the company over pollution leaking from waste dumps at its power plants. Duke Energy said that as of late Tuesday afternoon it was staging equipment and hadn’t begun… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2024 Work Plan for the Army Civil Works Program May 10, 2024. The Work Plan identifies the Programs, Projects and Activities within the Civil Works Program that will receive FY 2024 funding and how much each will receive. With the total funding for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District will be conducting maintenance activities this summer at Nolin River Lake in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, which could impact traffic patterns and public access to the tailwtaer area. Visitors may see construction crews on site performing this work during the summer months as these activities are scheduled to begin… Read More
The new and bigger lock being built at the Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga is designed to expedite the flow of barge traffic on the Tennessee River but building the replacement chamber has proven to be anything but expeditious for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the facility’s operator. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported… Read More
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in the Senate, joined Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn M. Garvin, Slaughter Beach Mayor Bob Woods, Delaware Bay Beach Association President Kathy Lock, and state and local officials to announce $31.9 million in federal funding to help protect and restore Delaware… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a contract option to award Bollinger Shipyards two additional Sentinel-class fast response cutters (FRCs). This announcement brings the number of FRCs awarded to Bollinger up to 67 since the program’s inception. To date, the Coast Guard has commissioned 55 FRCs into operational service. “We’re incredibly proud of our long… Read More
Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District awarded a construction contract for the Barrow Coastal Erosion Project in Utqiagvik. Brice Civil Constructors Inc. of Anchorage, Alaska, will begin constructing a portion of the structure in Utqiagvik aimed at reducing erosion and the risk of storm damage to about five miles of coastline…. Read More
In 1974, Marv Hrdlicka was a student at St. Paul Humboldt High School, and a counselor told him about an on-the-job-training opportunity in the print shop at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District. The print shop doesn’t exist any more, the district has moved to four separate buildings in that time, and… Read More
There was a boom, several plumes of smoke and then a splash as millions of pounds of Francis Scott Key Bridge debris fell Monday evening into the Patapsco River. Crews had previously placed linear-shaped charges — explosive cutting devices — on the large piece of the bridge that dropped March 26 onto the bow of the Dali… Read More