Expiration date: 2/18/2025
The City of Wabasha, in cooperation with the Wabasha Port Authority, is proposing to construct a commercial port facility on the Mississippi River in the City of Wabasha, Minnesota. The proposed project would be located at 1501 and 1600 5th Grant Boulevard West on the north side of the City of Wabasha in Wabasha County Minnesota. The 8.2-acre Wabasha Barge Facility would facilitate the transfer of materials, to include but not limited to dredge material and other commodities, from river barges to trucks for transport to offsite facilities. The City of Wabasha would own the project site and contract the port operations and transportation of materials. The project involves the construction of a barge terminal pad, access road, sheet pile dock face, upstream and downstream steel pipe pile structures for barge mooring and maneuvering, footings for conveyors and hoppers material handling and loadout, installation of electric, sewer, and water utilities, a future proposed loading scale and scale house/office building. The project also involves dredging in a side channel of the Mississippi River for an access channel, which will be and an area to accommodate barge maneuvering and docking. This will be performed by either hydraulic or mechanical dredging techniques and include deepening the side channel widening the area immediately adjacent to the proposed fleeting area for improved barge maneuverability. There will also be dredging in a second area of the side channel of the Mississippi River in an area to accommodate barge maneuvering and docking. This will be performed by either hydraulic or mechanical dredging techniques and include widening the area immediately adjacent to the proposed fleeting area for improved barge maneuverability.