USACE Mouth of Colorado Maintenance Dredging with Sargent Beach, Beneficial Use, Breakwaters, and Beach Placement, Matagorda County, Texas

Schedule 1 – Project is for Shallow Draft Maintenance Pipeline Dredging of the Mouth of Colorado Entrance Jetty Channel and Detention Basin and will include varying advanced maintenance and 2’ over-depth. Schedule 1 includes dredging of approximately 876,000 cubic yards (CY). Material will be placed west of West/South Jetty in nearshore zone; Construction of Terminal Groin and 4 of the 5 planned nearshore breakwaters at Sargent Beach, 25 miles East of the Mouth of Colorado. Estimated duration is 490 calendar days. Option 1 includes Beneficial Use beach placement of dredged material along the breakwater beach area of Sargent Beach, 25 miles East of the Mouth of the Colorado. Additional time of 40 calendar days. Option 2 includes Beneficial Use placement of dredged material along Sargent Beach’s historic stretch area, 25 miles East of the Mouth of the Colorado. Additional time of 10 calendar days. Option 3 includes construction of the 5th nearshore breakwater with the planned construction of the four (4) nearshore breakwaters aligned with the West coastline of Sargent Beach. Additional time of 30 calendar days.