Project record

Port Mansfield Channel 2026 maintenance dredging

Aerial view of a hydraulic dredge and discharge pipeline working at the Port Mansfield entrance beside the Padre Island jetties in 2021

Orion Marine Group via Dredging Today; historical Port Mansfield dredging context from 2021, not 2026 Callan Marine progress evidence

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

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

Last checked

19 July 2026

Coverage

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Dredging and waterways is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

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 evidence boundary
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.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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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.

Source

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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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • 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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Reporting status

Construction, confirmed confidence

Last checked 19 July 2026 across 7 cited sources. The dated timeline above carries the project events.

Last checked 19 July 2026 Cited sources 7

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