U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District Former Chief of Design Mark Nelson volunteered to assist the South Carolina Department of Transportation after Hurricane Hugo struck the coast, on midnight Sept. 21, 1989, and damaged the Ben Sawyer Bridge.
Category 4 Hurricane Hugo crossed Sullivan's Island traveling at nearly 25 miles-an-hour with hurricane-force winds ranging out 140 miles from the eye and pushing a tidal surge that ranged as high as 15 feet above mean sea level.
The signature piece of the district’s post-storm work was the repair of the 240-foot long, 500-ton swing span of the Ben Sawyer Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway and at the time, the only land connection to the barrier islands north of...
With the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District mid-way through the Charleston Harbor Post 45 Deepening Project, there are a wide-range of agencies that the District works with for input, feedback and comments. The organizations that quickly come to mind are the South Carolina Ports Authority, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. One group that might not be as obvious, but is equally as...
