Port of Kalama approves $900,000 dredging contract at TEMCO terminal

Only one contractor bid on a large Port of Kalama dredging project, but the port seems to have found a decent price for the work anyway.

Port commissioners Wednesday approved an $894,000 contract with Vancouver-based HME Construction Inc. to dredge 50,000 yards of sand out of the ship mooring area at the TEMCO Grain Terminal along the Columbia River.

“We were disappointed we didn’t have more competition,” Eric Yakovich, the port’s business development manager, told the commissioners.

The port explored re-bidding the job and contracting with the Port of Portland, which owns a dredge. But those options did not work out, Yakovich said.

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