Dredging on the $1-billion project to expand and deepen the Houston Ship Channel kicked off June 1, with work expected to last about 3.5 years in the country’s busiest waterway.
Plans developed by an AECOM-Gahagan & Bryant Associates joint venture with Port Houston and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—known as Project 11 because it mark the 11th time the waterway will be enlarged since the 1850s—call for the channel to be widened across Galveston Bay, for upstream segments to be deepened and for the construction of environmental features.