USACE Galveston District awards Houston Channel Dredging to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock

摘要

Recently the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $11,492,530 to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company for routine maintenance dredging of the Galveston inner and outer bar, entrance channel and extended entrance channel as well as the Houston Ship Channel between Bolivar Road and Redfish Island. Dredged material will be placed in Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site Number One, approximately 5 miles offshore. Additionally, approximately 725,000 yd~3 of sand material dredged from the Galveston inner and outer bars may be placed beneficially onto the adjacent shoreline of Galveston Beach starting at the 61st Street Pier working westward, as part of a contract option requested by the Galveston Park Board of Trustees and Texas General Land Office. "The USACE Galveston District is excited to partner with the Galveston Park Board of Trustees and Texas General Land Office in order to carry out a dredging project that will benefit channel users and Galveston residents," said Tricia Campbell, an operations manager with the USACE Galveston District. "While undertaking its mission of keeping America's waterways navigable, the Corps is able to turn that into an added benefit for the community by placing dredged material ( sand) on the Galveston Beach for tourists and residents to enjoy." This beneficial use project allows the Corps to work with a cost-sharing sponsor to place dredged material along the coastline, said Campbell.