Great Lakes Dredge and Dock of Oak Brook, Illinois, is making good progress dredging one of the channels associated with the Baltimore Harbor.
According to the Army Corps, crews are currently dredging roughly 950k cubic yards of material from the Brewerton Channel Eastern Extension, ensuring continued safe navigation for vessels going in and out of the Baltimore Harbor.
The works to dredge five Maryland channels and the York Spit Channel in Virginia, worth up to approximately $56.2 million, were awarded to GLDD as two separate contracts.
Under the two contracts, the following channels used by large container ships traveling to and from Port of Baltimore facilities will be dredged to their respective authorized dimensions, plus allowable over depth of 1 foot:
Dredging associated with the York Spit Channel contract is tentatively scheduled to begin in May.