Press Releases

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Port of Redwood City Gets $4 Million
in Federal Stimulus Program

Contact: Mike Giari, Executive Director, 650-306-4150, mgiari@redwoodcityport.com


The Port of Redwood City will receive $4 million for dredging of its water channel from stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), it was announced Tuesday (April 28, 2009)

The ARRA appropriated $4.6 billion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its Civil Works program. The ARRA is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges.

Port Chairman Dick Dodge said, “The Port is very pleased that the US Army Corps of Engineers has selected maintenance dredging of the Port’s channel as a project for economic stimulus funding. This project will restore the channel to its fully authorized depth of 30 feet at zero tide and will enable the Port’s shippers to save transportation costs and increase tonnage and jobs at the Port.”

Port Executive Director Michael Giari added, “This maintenance dredging project has gone through environmental review and preliminary engineering and should be ready to go to contract soon. We expect the maintenance dredging project to be completed by early 2010 which will hopefully coincide with increased shipping of construction materials through the Port brought about by projects being built with economic stimulus funding elsewhere on the Peninsula.”

The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port in south San Francisco Bay. The Port o specializes in bulk, neo-bulk and liquid cargoes

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