(Infrastructure & Transportation : Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown) 5/5/2009 
HOUSTON (Houston Business Journal) – The Port of Houston and Port of Galveston have received $98.3 million and $40 million, respectively, in stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for improvements to their shipping channels.

The Port of Houston will direct the federal funding toward major maintenance, operations and environmental projects associated with the 53-mile-long channel. Funding will also go to provide additional construction and dredged material placement capacity to avoid the increased costs of transporting dredge material to distant sites.

The improvements will help strengthen the port’s stimulus to the economy by adding 1.5 million direct and indirect jobs and $285 billion of economic activity to the nation.

The Port of Galveston, through the Army Corps of Engineers, will use its $40 million to complete the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels Project while improving the Galveston Channel to a depth of 45 ft.

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