The Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River Maintenance and Improvement Dredging Project, awarded in the third quarter, includes widening the turning basin in the Piscataqua River with beneficial use of material offshore and nearshore. Hopper dredging work is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2021 with estimated completion in the first quarter of 2022. The client on this project is the US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District and majority is federally funded with additional funding from the state of New Jersey. This project will provide beach fill to towns of Elberon and Sea Girt.

Open options totaling $21.1 million remain in low bids pending award bringing total contract to $47.7 million. At this time the base contract was awarded that includes dredging from an offshore borrow area and pumping sand to Allenhurst and Deal beaches. The Sea Bright to Manasquan, Section II Beach Project that was awarded in the third quarter is part of the Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet Beach Erosion Control Project. Mobile Harbor, Deepening and Widening – Phase 3 Project Modification (Capital, Alabama, $7.5 million).Coastal Storm Risk Management South Hutchinson Island Initial Construction Project (Coastal Protection, Florida, $11.3 million).Oak Island Renourishment Project (Coastal Protection, Florida, $17.1 million).Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River Maintenance and Improvement Dredging Project (Capital, New Hampshire and Maine, $25.6 million).

Sea Bright to Manasquan, Section II Beach Project (Coastal Protection, New Jersey, $26.6 million).

14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation ('Great Lakes') (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $88.1 million.

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