Municipalities on the Cape Fear coast including Southport and Bald Head Island got a small beacon of hope last week that their efforts to stop a widening project of the Wilmington Harbor are getting the attention of state officials. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) announced that the Army… Read More
VENICE — With the Venice Beach renourishment project back on track after delays, Col. Brandon Bowman, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, was in Venice on Tuesday to tour the project site and have a look at the South Jetty, the subject of an ACOE major maintenance study. The ACOE renourishes the… Read More
Dredging continues in Sebastian Inlet. Boaters: please be aware of dredge pipes and related equipment. Our contractor, ATL Diversified, Inc., is hydraulically dredging beach-compatible sand from a designated sand trap and adjacent inlet navigation channel within Sebastian Inlet. ATL is pumping non-compatible beach material through pipes to a dredged material storage facility on the north side of the inlet. Boaters,… Read More
Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Washington, was awarded a $13,183,900 modification (P00010) to contract W911KB-24-C-0005 for award of options for year three of the 2024-2026 maintenance dredging. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $38,965,163. Work will be performed in Anchorage, Alaska, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2027…. Read More
Callan Marine is progressing well down in the southern tip of Texas. Callan is now more than 70% complete with dredging 7 million cubic yards to deepen 8 miles of the Brazos Island Harbor Ship Channel in Brownsville, Texas. Over the past 13 months, this project has hosted several dredges including the 18″ General Marshall,… Read More
