All set for Newport Bay Harbor dredging April 12, 2021, by Eldin Ganic The USACE’s Los Angeles District will begin dredging the Newport Bay Harbor entrance channel and perform repairs on the harbor’s east jetty in mid-April. A $3-million contract to perform the work was awarded Feb. 24 to Pacific Dredge and Construction LLC, located in San Diego. The City of Newport Beach is the non-federal sponsor of the project. Estimated completion time of the work is by late June and includes dredging the harbor’s entrance channel to its authorized federal depth of -20 feet Mean Lower Low Water, or MLLW, and placing rock and repairing concrete along the east jetty.