Project record

Port Mansfield Channel 2026 maintenance dredging

View west along Mansfield Channel between Padre Island shorelines

NPS photo by Thomas DiGiovannangelo; channel context, not a view of the 2026 dredges

Callan Marine has worked west from the Gulf entrance jetties to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway junction, according to the Willacy County Navigation District. The next work front is the harbor and turning basin. A current U.S. Coast Guard notice identifies General Bradley and General Marshall and a pipeline system leading to Bird Island and Padre Island Beach.

Project signal

Construction in United States

Treat the GIWW-junction milestone as owner-reported field progress, supported by a current Coast Guard operating notice for the named dredges and pipeline route. It is not measured production, an accepted channel surface or completion. The Navigation District's 31 July contract deadline and the Coast Guard notice window through 11 February 2027 are separate dates; the notice does not establish a contract extension.

Current status Callan Marine dredging has reached the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway junction; the Navigation District says the next work front is the harbor and turning basin Source confidence Confirmed

Location

United States / Americas

Segment

Dredging and waterways

Status

Callan Marine dredging has reached the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway junction; the Navigation District says the next work front is the harbor and turning basin / Confirmed

Evidence reviewed

19 July 2026

Controlled taxonomy

Related sectors

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Project anatomy

Scope, counterparties, and execution logic

Client / authority
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, with Willacy County Navigation District and Texas General Land Office coordination
Delivery parties
Callan Marine Ltd.
Contract route
Firm-fixed-price federal maintenance-dredging contract; the Navigation District reports a USD 21.4 million award funded with fiscal 2025 Army operation and maintenance funds
Execution window
The Navigation District gives 31 July 2026 as the contract completion deadline. The Coast Guard reserves an operating notice window from 19 January 2026 through 11 February 2027 for dredging and pipeline hazards; that wider mariner notice is not evidence of a revised contractual completion date.
Works package
Maintenance dredging from the Gulf entrance through the inland Port Mansfield Channel and into the harbor, including the turning basin and areas beside the new bulkhead and chamber building; beneficial-use placement and a combined floating, submerged and shore-pipeline system are part of the delivery interface
Marine interfaces
Two cutter suction dredges, anchors set across a live shallow-draft channel, steel and HDPE pipeline, floating hose, submerged crossings, Bird Island and Padre Island Beach receiving routes, GIWW traffic, seagrass, turtle-nesting and shorebird constraints
Commercial read
The Navigation District describes the job as on schedule and without a safety incident. That remains an owner statement. The public record reviewed on 19 July does not provide measured dredged quantity, earned value, final placement receipts, post-dredge hydrography, accepted grade, completion certificate or final account.
Next milestone
Entry into the harbor work front, followed by published production and placement quantities, post-dredge surveys, accepted channel and basin dimensions, pipeline removal, navigation release and contract close-out

Material change register

What changed, when, and what it proves

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Dredging reached the GIWW junction

The Navigation District says Callan Marine has advanced west from the entrance jetties to the channel intersection and will next work into the harbor and turning basin.

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The active navigation notice began

The Coast Guard identified General Bradley and General Marshall, the Daybeacon 18 start area, pipeline crossings and receiving routes to Bird Island and Padre Island Beach.

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GLO executed the Phase II design work order

The work order established survey, sediment testing, beach-template design and USACE/NPS coordination tasks for beneficial-use placement planning and later construction-package coordination.

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Delivery watch

Evidence needed next

Entry into the harbor work front, followed by published production and placement quantities, post-dredge surveys, accepted channel and basin dimensions, pipeline removal, navigation release and contract close-out

Decision watchpoints

  • General Bradley and General Marshall positions by work reach
  • Transition from the GIWW junction into the harbor and turning basin
  • Measured quantity by channel, wye, basin and harbor reach
  • Pipeline crossing locations and navigation restrictions
  • Bird Island and Padre Island Beach material receipts
  • Seagrass, turtle-nesting and shorebird environmental windows
  • Controlling depth datum and post-dredge hydrographic results
  • Accepted grade, pipeline removal and navigation release
  • Completion certificate, final account and any approved time extension

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Evidence reviewed 19 July 2026 Sources in this record 7

Source record

The Navigation District page, whose site build was last published 18 July, controls the current field-position claim and the stated USD 21.4 million value and 31 July deadline. The Coast Guard notice independently identifies General Bradley, General Marshall, Daybeacon 18, the pipe system, receiving routes and navigation controls. The 2024 USACE permit record and drawings define an earlier approximately 2 million-cubic-yard, 206-acre beach-placement proposal; they are design and authorization context, not the measured quantity or accepted placement for the current contract. Texas GLO records the separate beach-nourishment design work and currently marks that grant record in close-out. NPS describes the channel as 14 feet deep and 125 feet wide, while the Navigation District calls the current restoration target 15 feet by 125 feet. Without the controlling contract survey and datum statement, the one-foot difference is retained rather than harmonized.

Phase: construction. Evidence reviewed: 19 July 2026.

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