WASHINGTON: The Tulsa Port of Catoosa has awarded a contract with a dredging company to remove silt build-up in the channel, clearing it to a 12-foot depth. A contract worth slightly more than $1 million was awarded to Illinois-based Mid-America Dredging by the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority at its January meeting.
The work is to start by March 1 and be finished in 105 days or pay a penalty of $800 per day, port operations manager Brad Banks told the authority. Five others firms bid on the project, which had an estimated cost of $1.7 million. The board OK’d monthly claims of $845,284 for payment. Secretary/treasurer Bryant J. Coffman said the port would recover 10 percent of that amount through grants or contractual obligations.
