Nome Port Director Joy Baker says the design team for its Deep Draft Port is jointly working out some issues, but those will be resolved in time to meet a design deadline at the end of this month.
Port Director Joy Baker discusses the Arctic Deep Draft Port Project at an open house in Nome in July 2021. 95% of the design finalized by the end of NovemberPhase one of the project is picking up speed and the deep draft port will be built, Port Director Joy Baker said at the beginning of November.There are a few issues the project design team is jointly working out currently, but those will be resolved in time to meet the deadline, according to Baker.
. Still, construction for phase one will have to be broken out over more than one season so that the edge of the breakwater is not exposed to storms and left vulnerable over winter, Baker said. “The first phase is probably going to last three seasons, could be a fourth. Because it’s going to take them that long to build the breakwater out, come back, and have the other attributes pitched up with it,” Baker said.
Phase two will involve more of the dredging of the actual deep water channel, but that work may not start until 2026, according to Baker. just like many other materials and services around the country. The Corps has not yet released final numbers on the project’s updated cost but originally the federal government set the price at $333-million over two years ago, Baker said.. The price of the utility pipes, again some of them are steel, are very high.
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