Posted on December 14, 2015
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $1.75 million contract to Western Contracting Corporation, of Sioux City, for repairs to a backwater site along the Missouri River at Ponca State Park.
The backwater serves as shallow-water habitat for the endangered pallid sturgeon and several other species of fish and wildlife. The area was damaged and filled with sediment during the 2011 Missouri River flood.
Work is expected to begin in January and will include sediment removal, placement of earthen fill between the two backwater areas and construction of a rock revetment to protect the site from river channel erosion. The project is expected to be finished by the end of 2016.
