The Pentagon announced that a southeast Louisiana company has won an $18.4 million Navy contract for maintenance dredging in Earle, New Jersey.
Weeks Marine Inc. of Covington will dredge the areas around two piers and part of Sandy Hook Federal Channel at Naval Weapons Station Earle.
The project is expected to be completed by September 2016.
This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with four proposals received.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity.