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Maintenance dredging project at West Calcasieu Port complete - Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Publication: American Press; Date: Sep 16, 2009; Section: Editorial; Page: A8
Maintenance dredging project at West Calcasieu Port complete Returning the basin to full operation is critical to the port’s barge services
The West Calcasieu Port has completed the maintenance dredging project for its west barge basin.
State and federal monies covered most of the costs associated with this $2.31 million project.
Grants worth $50,000 were received from the city of Sulphur and Calcasieu Par–ish.
Mike Hooks Inc. of West–lake performed the dredging operations.
Predredging work — levy construction at the spoils reception area and the installation of concrete revetment along the west barge basin shoreline — began in May and was completed in July.
Once those steps were completed, the Mike Hooks team positioned its dredging barge at the port and began moving about 180,000 cubic yards of spoil material to a 40-acre spoils receiving site just to the northwest on port property. That site that has been approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to receive the spoils.
Returning the basin to full operation is critical to the port’s barge services along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and plays a vital role to the Southwest Louisiana maritime industry hurricaneresponse planning.
Because of the port’s location on the waterway — two miles west of the Calcasieu River — the port’s west barge basin serves as a ‘‘safe haven’’ for shallow-water marine vessels and barges in the event the area is struck by a hurricane.
The port’s largest tenant, Devall Towing, operates one of the most expansive barge fleeting operations along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and that demand for quality barge docking space is essential if the company is to meet growing demand for shallowwater maritime transportation in Southwest Louisiana.
The port, 12 miles south of Interstate 10 and just west of La. 27, offers 2,500 feet of waterfront property on the Intracoastal Waterway. Current tenant activity includes barge operations, maritime fueling service, diesel repair, heavy-equipment contracting and maritime supply operations.
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