Lukens Dredging & Construction Company
company · active 1937
Baltimore dredging firm awarded the contract for the Coast Guard basin project at Ocean City in June 1937. Its dredge moved into the harbour at the beginning of July and finished within thirty days, cutting a basin for Coast Guard boats to an average depth of nine and a half feet at mean low water and diking and filling the station site between the old railroad bridge site and the existing bulkhead.
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1937 · 1937-07-22
The Coast Guard dredged itself a nine-and-a-half-foot basin at Ocean City in thirty days, on land bought from the railroad
'The Lukens Dredging Company, of Baltimore, has been awarded the contract for dredging the Coast Guard basin project at Ocean City,' the Messenger reported on 24 June 1937; the dredge moved into the harbour on the Monday and pumped fill onto the new Coast Guard site 'between the old railroad bridge site and the present bulkhead'. By 22 July it was done: 'The work was completed by the Luken[s] Dredging & Construction Co., of Baltimore, within a 30-day period. Dredging of a harbor basin for Coast Guard boats, having an average depth of 9½ feet at mean low water, together with the dyking and filling in of the Coast Guard site constituted the bulk of the work done. It is proposed to build a new Coast Guard building on the site, costing around $92,000. ... Last summer around 500 feet of sheet steel bulkheading was placed in the harbor along the front of the Coast Guard property.' The site lay north of South Division Street, fronting Philadelphia Avenue and the bay, and had been bought from the Pennsylvania Railroad — the strip the railroad had abandoned when the 1933 storm cut its trestle.
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