Posted on October 3, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District awarded a contract to Norfolk Dredging Company for $27.6 million to conduct maintenance dredging of portions of the Delaware River and Wilmington Harbor federal shipping channels.
Approximately three million cubic yards of sediment will be dredged from the Marcus Hook, Deepwater Point, and New Castle Ranges of the Delaware River. An additional 450,000 cubic yards of sediment will be dredged from the Wilmington Harbor federal channel. The sediment will be hydraulically pumped to Army Corps owned and operated dredged material placement facilities near Pedricktown, N.J. and Delaware City, Del.
Dredging is estimated to begin in the winter of 2025/2026 and be completed by the summer of 2026.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District maintains several hundred miles of channels across the Delaware Valley under its navigation program, which enables the safe and reliable flow of maritime commerce. The Delaware River, Philadelphia to the Sea project includes an approximately 100-mile channel, from Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia to the mouth of the Delaware Bay (maintained at a depth of 45 feet). The Wilmington Harbor project provides for a channel of varying depths from the Delaware River to Newport, Del.; a turning basin; and jetties at the mouths of the Christina and Brandywine Rivers.
