Freeport Harbor, Texas, Channel Improvement Project, Reach 2 and Placement Area 8 Construction In Brazoria County, Texas, Pipeline Dredging.

Pipeline dredging, Freeport Harbor Reach No. 2 and Placement Area 8 Construction. The Freeport Harbor vicinity is located on the mid- to upper Texas coast in Brazoria County and encompasses the communities of Surfside, Quintana Oyster Creek City, and the City of Freeport. The original project for Federal improvement at Freeport was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 14, 1880. This constituted the initial authorization for the existing Freeport Channel system. The Federal project known as Freeport Harbor, Texas, is an improvement of the original mouth of the Brazos River that provides for a deep-draft waterway from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Freeport. The Freeport Harbor waterway has an overall length of about 7.6 miles from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico to the Brazos Harbor Turning Basin. The Freeport Ship Channel is a deep-draft navigation channel that connects industrial facilities in Freeport, Texas with the Gulf of Mexico. The main channel consists of multiple segments, with reduced channel widths and depths as the channel approaches the 180 degree turn around the Dow complex. The channel also provides barge access through multiple adjacent waterways. This pipeline dredging Freeport Harbor Reach No. 2 contract encompass new work dredging (deepening and widening) of existing main channel and transition segments parallel at modified channel widths and reduced depths as the channel approaches the 180 degree turn around the Dow complex deep draft Freeport Channel Dow Reach approx. Sta. 132+67 to Sta. 185.23 to an authorized depth (-51’ MLLW). Work also entails construction of a new upland dredge disposal Placement Area No. 8. (Modifed 1/22/2021) There are no options in this Bid Schedule of proposed work. The Schedule 1 estimated production rate is ~10,000 CY per day; with an Estimated Total Quantity (~2.4 MCY) note final estimates will be provided in the formal construction contract documents. The Freeport Harbor vicinity is located on the mid- to upper Texas coast in Brazoria County and encompasses the communities of Surfside, Quintana Oyster Creek City, and the City of Freeport. The original project for Federal improvement at Freeport was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 14, 1880. This constituted the initial authorization for the existing Freeport Channel system. The Federal project known as Freeport Harbor, Texas, is an improvement of the original mouth of the Brazos River that provides for a deep-draft waterway from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Freeport. The Freeport Harbor waterway has an overall length of about 7.6 miles from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico to the Brazos Harbor Turning Basin. The Freeport Ship Channel is a deep-draft navigation channel that connects industrial facilities in Freeport, Texas with the Gulf of Mexico. The main channel consists of multiple segments, with reduced channel widths and depths as the channel approaches the 180 degree turn around the Dow complex. The channel also provides barge access through multiple adjacent waterways. This pipeline dredging Freeport Harbor Reach No. 2 contract encompass new work dredging (deepening and widening) of existing main channel and transition segments parallel at modified channel widths and reduced depths as the channel approaches the 180 degree turn around the Dow complex deep draft Freeport Channel Dow Reach approx. Sta. 132+67 to Sta. 185.23 to an authorized depth (-51’ MLLW). Work also entails construction of a new upland dredge disposal Placement Area No. 8. There are two Options in this Bid Schedule. The Option 1 is for channel deepening and Option 2 is for bend easing shoreline protection. Estimated duration for Schedule 1 is approximately 410 calendar days; and if Option 1 is exercised there is 60 additional calendar days; and if Option 2 is exercised there is no additional time.

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Waterway and Marine Construction, Waterway and Marine Construction and Equipment, Dredging.