Corps of Engineers awards $3.1 million contract for maintenance, improvement dredging at Hampton Harbor

Published Oct. 4, 2012

CONCORD, Mass. – Maintenance and improvement dredging of Hampton Harbor in Hampton and

Maintenance and improvement dredging of Hampton Harbor in Hampton and

Seabrook, New Hampshire, will be completed under the terms of a $3,162,780.01 contract issued

recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. The project is being

constructed in partnership with the Pease Development Authority, New Hampshire Division of Ports

and Harbors under an agreement executed on Sept. 5, 2012.

Work will be accomplished by Southwind Construction Corp., of Evansville, Ind. Construction is

scheduled to start on or about Oct. 15, 2012 and be completed in approximately three months. The

contract was awarded on Sept. 24, 2012.

“The work on this project consists of maintenance dredging of the entrance channel to Hampton

Harbor, and maintenance and improvement dredging of channels and anchorages in the inner

harbor,” said Project Manager Richard Heidebrecht, of the Corps’ New England District,

Engineering and Planning Division in Concord, Mass. “Inner Harbor facilities include 8-foot deep

channels and anchorages on both the Hampton and Seabrook sides of the harbor, and a second

shallower 6-foot deep anchorage on the Hampton side.”

The project requires the hydraulic dredging of about 172,000 cubic yards of sand that will be

pumped to Hampton and Seabrook beaches. Material placed on the beaches will be graded. The

project also includes the installation of about 800 feet of sand fencing behind Seabrook Beach.

The construction window for dredging activities in the harbor is between Oct. 15, 2012 and Jan. 31,

2013.

The project will be managed by the Corps and all work will be accomplished under the supervision

of a Corps’ Quality Assurance Representative to assure compliance with contract requirements.

For more information about the Corps’ New England District projects and activities visit the website

at: http://www.nae.usace.army.mil.


Contact
Tim Dugan
978-318-8264
timothy.j.dugan@usace.army.mil

Release no. 12-017