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Publish Date : 15-Apr-2014

A contract in the amount of US$6,318,000 is given by the US Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District to Goodloe Marine Inc., a women-owned, HubZone Small Business, to perform maintenance dredging within the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, between Turnstake Island and Live Oak Point, in Calhoun, Aransas and San Patricio counties, Texas.

The contractor is needed to take out about 1.6 million cubic yards of shoaled material from the channel reaches to offer adequate channel depth for the transit of shallow-draft vessels. The dredge material will be placed in open water and upland placement areas directly adjacent to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Chris Frabotta, chief of Navigation Branch, USACE Galveston District said, "Execution of this maintenance dredging contract is critical to providing unrestricted navigation along this portion of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway".

"The movement of commerce, through barge traffic, is an essential link between the Texas ports, Gulf regional ports and various facilities throughout the nation.

Work is planned to start in late April 2014 with a likely conclusion in September 2014.

As per to Frabotta, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway extends for 1,109 miles from Apalachee Bay, Florida, to Port Isabel Texas, and is ranked as the third inland waterway in the nation regarding commercial tonnage. The Texas portion of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway expands for 406-miles and accounts for about 63 percent of the total commercial tonnage, approximately 73 million tons in 2012.

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