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USACE Goetz

Cutterhead Suction Dredge:
  • Laid down in 2005 as the Dredge Goetz for the US Army Corps of Engineers at Oilfield Electric Marine, Houston, TX.
  • Launched 2005
  • Delivered and commissioned in 2005
  • Goetz is assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District
  • Current Disposition, active
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 225'
    Beam 39'
    Hull Depth 8'
    Draft 5'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Bunker Capacity 30,000 gal. diesel
    Potable Water Capacity 1,000 gal.
    Digging Depth 25'
    Cut Width @25-ft depth: 250 ft
    Production 1,000yds 3/hr
    w/o booster - 5,000 ft of pipeline
    w booster - 10,000 ft of pipeline
    Dredging pipe diameter 20 inches
    Machinery
    Main Generators 2 Caterpillar 3516 DG Sets 1200rpm
    Dredge Pump Vosta model 3635
    Dredge Pump Drive 2-1150 HP 600VAC Vector Duty Motors
    Dredge Pump Control/Drive OEM V31800 True Vector IGBT Drive
    Dredge Pump Gearbox Haley Gears HADU 1800 1.4:1
    Cutter Drive 300HP 600 VAC Vector Duty AC Motor
    Cutter Drive/Controls OEM Variable Speed AC Drive
    Spud Hoist Winches IHC 100 HP 480 VAC Vector Duty AC Motor
    Traveling Spud Carriage Rack and pinion driven two 30 HP 480 VAC Vector Duty AC Motors
    Swing Winches IHC 100 HP 480 VAC Vector Duty AC Motors
    Ladder Hoist IHC 100 HP 480 VAC Vector Duty Motor
    Winch Drive OEM 3000 BMD Variable Speed AC Drives
    In-Port Generator Cat C-9 DG set
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    Goetz
    302615601    		 96k US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USACE Goetz with cutterhead out of the water, date and location unknown.
    US Army Corp of Engineers St. Paul District photo.    		 John Spivey
    Goetz
    302615602    		 187k US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USACE Goetz during dredging operations, date and location unknown.
    US Army Corp of Engineers photo.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Goetz
    302615604    		 83k US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USACE Goetz during dredging operations, 30 July 2014, location unknown.
    US Army Corp of Engineers photo # 140730-A-GX971-032    		 Tommy Trampp
    Goetz
    302615603    		 139k US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USACE Goetz during dredging operations in the Chippewa Delta, at the foot of Lake Pepin – in Pool 4 of the Mississippi River in October 2018.
    US Army Corp of Engineers photo.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Goetz
    302615605    		 174k The cutter heard of US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USACE Goetz acts like a blender, mixing material on the Mississippi River-bed to create a slurry that is hydraulically pumped nearly a mile from the dredge site to the top of a temporary disposal site. The dredge – one of five dredging operations working on the Upper Mississippi River from St. Paul to Guttenberg, Iowa – will next move a few miles downstream as the district works to keep the navigation channel open for commercial tows, a high priority task given the amount of sediment moved into the channel due to spring flooding.
    US Army Corp of Engineers photo 190530-A-CO961-021 by Patrick Loch    		 John Spivey
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