Great Lakes Announces $256.2 Million In Awarded Work
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, recently announced the receipt of dredging awards totaling $256.2 million.
The awarded work includes $65.9 million for the Mobile Harbor (Ala.) Deepening and Widening Dredging Project 2A. This project involves deepening the channel by six feet to improve channel navigation. The project will allow deeper draft vessels to use the port. Material removed from the channel will be used beneficially in the Sand Island Beneficial Use Area. The client on this federally funded project is the Mobile Engineer District. Work is expected to start in the fourth quarter this year with estimated completion in the spring of 2025.
GLDD received a $59.8 million contract for the Port Everglades (Fla.) Sand Bypass Dredging Project, which was in backlog at the end of the second quarter. The project provides a sustainable strategy for beach renourishment in Broward County, Fla., with a renewable local source of sand. The project involves construction of a sand trap on the north side of the port inlet to collect sand that would otherwise be lost through erosion and offshore transport. Accumulated sand can be then harvested for future beach placement. The client for the project is Broward County, with funding from both the state and local municipality. Work is expected to start in the second half of 2025 with estimated completion in 2026.
Also in Florida, the $9.3 million St. Lucie Inlet Maintenance Dredging Project, which was in backlog in the first quarter, involves maintenance dredging of the entrance channel and impoundment basin. The client on the federally funded project is the Jacksonville Engineer District. Work started in July with estimated completion later this year.
Long Island And New Jersey
Several major dredging projects are located in and around New Jersey and Long Island, N.Y. The Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island Beach Renourishment Project, which was in low bids pending at the end of the second quarter, is worth $54.4 million. The project entails placing beach fill to repair the dune and berm system along the Atlantic Ocean coastline of Long Beach Island, N.J. This project has potential options pending of approximately $63.8 million. The client is the Philadelphia Engineer District, and the project is federally funded. Work is expected to start later this year with estimated completion in the third quarter of 2025.
GLDD was awarded a $52 million contract for the Fire Island Inlet Dredging Project, which entails emergency beach fill and shore protection to multiple communities along Fire Island, N.Y. The client on the federally funded project is the New York Engineer District. Work is expected to start in the fourth quarter of this year with estimated completion in the first half of 2025.
The $14.8 million North Wildwood, N.J., Emergency Beach Renourishment Project, which GLDD completed in the second quarter, provided much-needed sand on the North Wildwood beaches to protect shore properties and ensure a safer shoreline for residents and visitors. The client on this subcontract was the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Work was awarded, performed and completed earlier this year.
Lasse Petterson, GLDD’s president and CEO, said, “These important projects, which include capital, coastal protection and maintenance work, allow Great Lakes to help support the overall improvement and resiliency of our country’s environment, coastlines and infrastructure. In addition to the above awarded projects, Great Lakes has approximately $318 million in low bids and options pending award, which includes two jobs that we were low bidder on this month. This brings our potential total pipeline of work to over $1.2 billion.”
