Environment: Dredging

USACE

DREDGING PROJECT STATUS

MAINTENANCE PROJECTS:

  • Newark Bay - complete
  • Arthur Kill - substantially complete
  • Hudson River - pending contract award

COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS:

  • 45' Kill van Kull/Newark Bay
    (thru Elizabeth Channel) (November 2004)
  • Arthur Kill 41'/40'
    (to Howland Hook, NY and Bayway Terminal, NJ)
    (March 2007)
  • Port Jersey Channel 41'
    (ongoing, merged with 50' expected completion 2009)

ONGOING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS:

  • The NY/NJ Harbor Deepening 50' is approximately 35% complete
  • Port Jersey Channel - contract awarded December 2007
  • Kill van Kull - one section (S-KVK 2) completed (March 2007)
  • Ambrose Channel - one section
    (harbor entrance channel) - completed July 2007
    one section (S-Ambrose 1) 80% complete
  • Newark Bay - one section (S-NB) awarded June 21, 2007
  • Harbor anchorages - one section
    (S-Anchorage 1a) > 50% complete - one section
    (S-Anchorage 1b) to be awarded in January 2008

For more information on dredging projects go to the Resources section and click on links to the Army Corps of Engineers; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; or the Office of Maritime Resources, New Jersey Department of Transportation.
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