Great Lakes Dredge awarded $118 million in work

OAK BROOK - Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., the largest provider of dredging services in U.S., has announced the receipt of several major contracts totaling $118.8 million.

The work includes dredging the lower harbor in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the final phases of the deepening project it began for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District and South Carolina State Port Authority in 2017.

Also, Great Lakes will continue offshore dredging and the placement of sand over approximately 10 miles of beach in Emerald Isle in North Carolina. Funding for this project was provided from federal appropriations after Hurricane Florence. Great Lakes also successfully completed Phase 1 in April of 2019 and Phase 2 in April of 2020. Work on this new phase is estimated to begin in January.

Other projects are at Freeport Harbor in Port Freeport, Texas; the Yazoo River Basin in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi; Grand Isle and vicinity in Louisiana; and the Hudson River, from New York City to Waterford, New York.