📋 Tender Overview
Scope :Harbor Area Maintenance - Dredging
PROJECT DESCRIPTION/JUSTIFICATION : This annual recurring budget provides for dredging harbor areas and the disposal of the spoil material to maintain adequate harbor and channel depths for the Port of Dubuque Marina and the Ice Harbor. The City had a previous contractual obligation under various riverfront-leased properties to maintain adequate harbor depths and to perform maintenance dredging operations for commercial barge and recreational navigation. However, as leases are renewed or new lease agreements are approved, the maintenance dredging requirements are no longer the responsibility of the City. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2014, the City is no longer responsible for maintenance dredging at any industrial leased properties within Dove Harbor. On an annual basis, the budget allocation is evaluated and adjusted to reflect a more accurate determination of the dredging needs and the City attempts to provide sufficient funds for dredging of the City's waterfront, however the cost of dredging continues to significantly increase on a yearly basis. The temporary disposal site located along the east shoreline of the Peosta channel and adjacent to the 16th Street Bridge can hold approximately 7,500 cubic yards of dredge material. This annual budget includes funds for annual riverfront maintenance dredging as required at boat launch ramp locations, River's Edge Plaza and along the Riverwalk lower pier wall to accommodate excursion boat mooring.
