In the words of Maj. Gen. Jason Kelly, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, dredging is "foundational."
Kelly recently shared an updated vision for a truly national dredging program, moving from fragmented projects to an enterprise approach to maximize every taxpayer dollar and prioritize a simple mandate: "Building Infrastructure, Not Paperwork." The measure of our success isn’t the number of contracts we award, but the cubic yards of material we move to keep our ports accessible and our Nation competitive.
(U.S. Army video by Thomas I. Deaton)
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Galveston District, the Brownsville Navigation District and NextDecade will mark completion of a 10-foot deepening project that places the Brownsville Ship Channel among the Gulf regionā€™s deepest navigation channels.
The deeper channel will allow larger vessels carrying heavier cargo to access the port, reducing vessel transit times, increasing cargo movement, improving navigation safety, and...
