BREAKING NEWS: Callan wins final contract for Corpus Christi dredging

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District (SWG) awarded the fourth and final multimillion dollar contract for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CCSCIP) yesterday.

Callan Marine will receive approximately $102.9 million to complete dredging on the final stretch of the project – the Inner Harbor reach.

With the final contract, the entire project will beneficially use roughly five million cubic yards of dredged material, said USACE.

“With this project, the Galveston District makes great strides toward the Chief of Engineers’ vision to increase beneficial use of dredged material,” said Col. Rhett Blackmon, SWG’s district commander.

“This is one of the largest beneficial use projects the district has ever constructed,” said Chris Frabotta, SWG’s operations chief. “That much dredged material would fill up the Astrodome more than three times.”

The project will improve approximately 11.9 miles of the associated shipping channel, effectively widening the channel from 400 feet to 530 feet and deepening it from 47 feet to 54 feet.

Also, the overall channel improvement project would combat erosion within the channel by providing 395 acres of sacrificial erosion protection along with the construction of a 2,000-foot breakwater – to tie into a currently planned 4,000-foot breakwater – in the Nueces Delta.