Dredging
Baltimore routes 1.46 million cubic yards to Cox Creek
Jeremy Todd / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District
Curtin Maritime's DB Avalon is dredging approximately 1.46 million cubic yards from Baltimore Harbor approach channels. The material is loaded into scows and taken to the Cox Creek containment facility.
Published scope and current milestone
The 22 June 2026 USACE/DVIDS story controls the active DB Avalon operation, current contractor, approximately 1.46-million-cubic-yard scope, Cox Creek route and 24-hour work pattern. The 23 February Baltimore District release independently records the current approach-channel quantity and geometry. Maryland Port Administration sources provide the broader annual dredging context and the separate STAR capacity-recovery plan. The November 2024 USD 33.5 million award is a predecessor package, not the current contract value.
Dredging quantity and delivery implications
That route keeps the harbor campaign moving, but it is only the first half of the material story. Receipt at Cox Creek is not the same as material recovered through the separate STAR remediation programme, and neither proves that the navigation channel has been accepted at its authorized depth.
Evidence conclusion
Survey, placement and acceptance evidence
The current field record is unusually specific: it identifies the dredge, contractor, planned quantity and receiving facility. It does not publish the current contract value, final excavation, Cox Creek receipt totals or post-dredge survey. Those remain open items. The USD 229 million fiscal-year appropriation and the previous USD 33.5 million dredging award belong to different scopes.
Outstanding evidence
- Measured excavation against the approximately 1.46-million-cubic-yard contract scope
- Scow movements and documented material receipts at Cox Creek
- Post-dredge hydrography and acceptance across the authorized 50-foot channels
- Sediment characterization and compliance with the approved routing plan
- USACE completion and acceptance of the current Curtin Maritime package
- STAR opening of the first remediated 26-acre parcel
- Verified STAR capacity recovery against the separate 2026 target and five-year plan
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Sources used 7
- Federal, State Partners Practice Beneficial Use Solutions for Port of Baltimore U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District via DVIDS, 22 June 2026
- Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announces Build Infrastructure, Not Paperwork transformation initiative U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, 23 February 2026
- Port Operations: Dredging Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration, Current programme page
- Maryland Port Commission open-session minutes Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration, 3 June 2025
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete USD 33 million in Baltimore Harbor and Channels dredging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division, 8 November 2024
- DB Avalon maintains critical navigation channels U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District via DVIDS, 22 June 2026
- USACE Baltimore District and Maryland Port Administration partner to ensure safe navigation U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District via DVIDS, 22 June 2026