Dredging underway at Kings Bay entrance channel December 21, 2020, by Zlatan Hrvacevic
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has begun scheduled maintenance dredging of the U.S. Naval Station Kings Bay entrance channel.
The project, worth around $15.8 million, was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, LLC, of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., on Nov. 23, 2020.
The Corps issued the firm a notice to proceed Dec. 9. The City of Fernandina Beach in the non-federal sponsor of the project.
The maintenance dredging is projected to remove more than 1,190,000 cubic yards of sediment from the channel, to be distributed among two offshore and two onshore sites.