A new port will be developed on the Colorado River southwest of Houston, Texas. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that an agreement has been reached recently with the Bay City, Texas, Port Authority to proceed with port construction at the mouth of the Colorado.
Construction is scheduled to begin on the $27-million project early next year and will take about five years to complete. The port will link Bay City with the Gulf Intracoastal Canal and the Gulf of Mexico. It will enable Bay City to handle larger cargoes.
Plans call for construction of barge facilities for cargoes on the intracoastal waterway as well as facilities for offshore equipment. The port will have a jettied entrance channel 15 feet deep and 200 feet wide, a 12- by 100-foot navigational channel linking the Gulf to the intracoastal waterway, a harbor and turning basin at Matagorda, and public recreational facilities along the channel.