{"id":123750,"date":"2026-01-19T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123750\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:08:08","slug":"orion-completes-tampa-harbor-maintenance-dredging-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123750\/","title":{"rendered":"Orion completes Tampa Harbor maintenance dredging project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project (Upper Channels) was completed after 270 days of coordinated effort in Hillsborough County, Florida, Orion said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dredger-768x484.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Orion<\/p>\n<p>Working alongside multiple contractors, Orion team dredged the upper channels to a depth of 34 feet MLLW while managing shared resources, active operations, and strict environmental requirements. <\/p>\n<p>From coordinating access with third parties to dredging near active airport runways, the work required careful planning, constant communication, and disciplined execution, Orion said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dredg-1024x629.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101767\"  \/>photo courtesy of Orion<\/p>\n<p>Also, the team handled material removal, barge transportation, and offloading to a remote placement facility, while managing environmental monitoring for turbidity, protected species, birds, and sea turtles.<\/p>\n<p>Rocks and debris within the dredge area added another layer of complexity that the crew addressed head-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project (Upper Channels) was completed after 270 days of coordinated effort in Hillsborough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-123750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}