Ryba Marine to Dredge River Rouge in Michigan

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District awarded Ryba Marine Construction Company from Cheboygan, Michigan, a $736,000 contract for maintenance dredging in the River Rouge in southwest Detroit, Michigan.

Ryba Marine will remove approximately 66,500 cubic yards of shoal material from Dix Road to the I-75 Highway. Material from the dredging project will be placed at the Pointe Mouillee Confined Disposal Facility at the mouth of the Huron River in western Lake Erie.

Cargo coming into the River Rouge includes iron ore, petroleum products, coal, slag, cement, limestone, lignite, fuel oil, coke, salt, sand and gravel.
Dredging of the navigation channel is separate from the Lower Rouge River Old Channel clean-up project and is scheduled to begin in late April 2019 and should be completed by early June 2019.

While River Rouge and its tributaries total 125 miles of waterway, only the lower two and a half miles of the river are maintained as a shipping channel from the turning basin to the river’s mouth at the south end and joins the Detroit River at the westerly limit of the City of Detroit.