Tampa Harbor Big Bend Channel Construction Dredging, 41-Foot Project

This notice serves as an annoncement of an Industry Day for the Tampa Harbor Big Bend Channel Constrction Dredging, 41-Foot Project Entrance Channnel, Turning Basin, East Channel, Inner Channel and Local Sponsor Berthing Areas, Hillsboroough County, FLorida.
 
The project work consists of construction dredging of shoal and new work material (approximately 4.5 Mcy) from the Big Bend Channel of Tampa Harbor. The Federal project consists of the Entrance Channel, Turning Basin, East Channel, Inner Channel, and associated wideners. The project will consist of a Base plus two options. The construction dredging project will deepen the existing channel segments from approximately 34 feet to 41 feet plus 2 feet of Advance Maintenance and associated over-depths. The Entrance Channel will be widened from 200 feet to 250 feet for a length of approximately 1.9 miles. Additionally, the existing Turning Basin will be expanded to provide a minimum diameter of 1200 feet and turn wideners added where necessary. Associated non-Federal facilities include deepening the berthing areas and further expanding the East Channel. All dredged material from the project will be disposed of in Dredge Material Placement Facility DMPF 3-D located approximately 1.5 nautical miles from the area to be dredged. It is anticipated that the material to be dredged includes rock of sufficient hardness and massiveness such that blasting or some other form of pretreatment would be needed to efficiently remove the rock in conjunction with dredging of this reach. Work also includes bird monitoring, turbidity monitoring, endangered species observer (Hopper Dredge Only), mobilization and demobilization for sea turtle trawling and relocation (Hopper Dredge Only), and sea turtle trawling and relocation (Hopper Dredge Only).

Instructions:  Please see the attached documents:

1.  Site Vist Information
2. Industry Day Registration Information