The Brunswick Harbor Entrance Channel Maintenance Dredging Contract provides construction services, including furnishing personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials required in connection with maintenance dredging. This contract is traditionally performed with a trailing suction hopper dredge. Up to two million cubic yards of maintenance material is expected to be removed from the entrance channel and up to eighty-five thousand cubic yards from the Cedar Hammock Range.
The work is located in Brunswick Harbor Georgia deep draft navigation project. Brunswick Harbor is located in Glynn County, Georgia, 70 statute miles south of the Savannah Harbor, Georgia, and 25 statute miles north of Fernandina Harbor, Florida. The Brunswick Entrance Channel is 38 ft. deep MLLW and 400 ft. wide from the Atlantic Ocean through St. Simons Range. The Brunswick Harbor Inner Harbor channel is 36 ft. deep MLLW and 400 ft. wide through Cedar Hammock Range, Brunswick River, Turtle River, South Brunswick River, and East River.
The dredging scope includes the entrance channel stations 0+000 to -45+000 and inner harbor Cedar Hammock Range stations 12+750 to 22+000. The maintenance material removed from during this contract is to be placed within the offshore dredged material disposal site (ODMDS). Hopper dredge use within the Brunswick Harbor is restricted to 15 December to 31 March 2025.
