TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to award a contract to Manson Construction Company to provide dredging services at the Catalina Landing Marina in the estimated amount of $783,000 plus a
25 percent contingency amount of $195,750. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract to provide dredging services at the Catalina Landing Marina (Marina). The City of Long Beach is the trust grantee for the State of California for this property located at 310-340 Golden Shore. The Abbey Company is the lessee of this property, and the marina associated with it. Catalina Express is the primary tenant for the marina and the major ferry service for visitors and residents of Catalina Island.
Since the marina and approach channel are located at the mouth of the Los Angeles River, they regularly fill with sediment, and need to be dredged to maintain the depth for safe operations of the Catalina Express ferries, and other commercial and recreational watercraft. The Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) is responsible for maintaining the depth of the adjacent Los Angeles River channel, and recently completed maintenance dredging to ensure its navigation. Issues related to the City's responsibilities for dredging were disputed with the lessee, and the City Council approved the settlement on January 23, 2007, which contained the City's responsibility for maintaining the depth of the marina. The marina has not been dredged since 2000 and estimates are that 50,000 cubic yards of sediment, unsuitable for open-ocean disposal or beach renourishment, must be dredged to ensure the safe passage of vessels.
For the past two years, the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PRM), Harbor Department, and ACOE have been working cooperatively to plan the dredging of the marina. In addition to the ACOE work, the Harbor Department has a number of dredging projects, totaling over one million cubic yards of sediment that must be completed in support o...
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