![]() The five-year agreement will see the development of a new graving dock (Dry Dock 5) to replace Dry Dock 3, sustaining PHNSY & IMF capabilities that modernize and maintain the US Pacific Fleet’s nuclear-powered submarines. Read Civil Beat’s “Army Corps Looks To Scrap Three Basins From Ala Wai Flood Plans.The US Navy has awarded a joint venture of Dragados, Hawaiian Dredging, and Orion a $2.8-billion contract to construct a concrete dry dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility ( PHNSY & IMF) in Oahu, Hawaii. The canal dredging should reduce the risk of flooding, a topic that has been in the news a lot recently. “The project is expected to last for a year.” “As canal users were previously informed, there will be temporary construction impacts including constraints to water recreation, sporadic walkway closures, and minor noise,” said DLNR. The contractor is Hawaii Harbors Constructors JV, and the cost of dredging and wall repairs is $21.1 million. The walls being repaired include the mauka side fronting the Ala Wai Community Park and between the Kalakaua Avenue and McCully Street bridges. Cory Lum/Civil BeatĭLNR last dredged the canal in 2002. Ala Wai Canal canoe paddlers have been informed of the dredging plans. It’s to “remove accumulated silt and sediments, remove abandoned Hawaiian Electric Company cables, and to repair two sections of canal wall begins this month,” according to a press releases.ĭLNR said extensive public outreach work was done to inform canal users such as canoe clubs of the work. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said Thursday that dredging of the Ala Wai Canal begins this month.
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