Industry · Dredging
Dredging.
Move the spoils. Hold the line.
Sentinel sells the Standard 10×40 sectional steel barge: 10 ft × 40 ft, 36,000 lb evenly distributed deckload and pin-flange connections. Confirm the intended equipment, loads, accessories and layout with your quote.
Overview
The full dredging fleet, from one shop.
Dredging is a multi-vessel operation. The dredge needs a deck to work off. The spoils have to go somewhere: hoppers, scows, or pumped discharge to a disposal area. Crews and fuel need a tender that can stay on station for the duration. Every one of those vessels has to fit the project, the channel, the disposal cycle, and whatever the regulators are looking for that year.
Sentinel sells the Standard 10×40 sectional steel barge: 10 ft × 40 ft, 36,000 lb evenly distributed deckload and pin-flange connections. Confirm the intended equipment, loads, accessories and layout with your quote.
Federal channel maintenance, private terminal deepening, contaminated-sediment remediation, routine harbor cleanup — every section ships with stamped drawings. The owner, the regulator, and your insurance carrier all want to see that paperwork. It's already in the box.
Applications
Where our barges fit in a dredging operation
Dredge platforms
The Standard 10×40 barge has a 36,000 lb evenly distributed deckload. Have the equipment loads and platform layout reviewed before use.
Hopper barges
The Standard 10×40 barge has a 36,000 lb evenly distributed deckload. Have the equipment loads and platform layout reviewed before use.
Tender floats
Standard sections for crew, fuel, parts, and small tools during long campaigns far from a maintenance dock.
Pipeline floats
Sectional supports for hydraulic discharge pipe crossing open water to upland disposal.
Sediment containment
Bull-railed sections form short-term containment cells for storage and dewatering before final disposal.
Survey & monitoring
Standard sections platform hydrographic gear, sampling crews, and turbidity monitoring equipment.
Why sectional
Modular floats keep dredge schedules honest.
Dredge schedules don't forgive much. Federal channel windows are short. Environmental permits often have tight in-water work seasons. Private terminal owners want their berths back on a fixed date. The last thing you need on day one of a 90-day campaign is a platform shortage or the wrong-size float.
Sectional fixes the sizing problem at the front end. Four sections for a small private dredge, twelve for a mid-size federal job, twenty for a major capital deepening — the same fleet scales up and back down across the season. Finish a dredge job on Friday and start a pier job two weeks later? The same sections re-couple into a bridge work platform. No modification.
For spoils, hopper boxes are available as an option. Tell us the material, production rate and disposal cycle and the hopper is sized and priced with your quote.
Spec guide
Sizing your dredge fleet.
Start with the dredge spec. A small clamshell on a 30-ton crane needs a different platform than a 12-inch hydraulic cutter with internal spuds and a generator package. Tell us what you're running, what your bucket or production rate is, what depth you're cutting to, and what current and tide you're up against. We'll size the platform from there.
Sentinel sells the Standard 10×40 sectional steel barge: 10 ft × 40 ft, 36,000 lb evenly distributed deckload and pin-flange connections. Confirm the intended equipment, loads, accessories and layout with your quote.
For environmental dredging, where contaminated sediment has to be contained and turbidity has to stay down, tell us the containment requirements with your quote request so the hopper and deck configuration can be confirmed in writing. Talk to us early — the environmental spec usually drives the most expensive part of the float package, and getting it right at the bid stage saves real money over the campaign.
Spec it for your job
Spec a dredge-support and hopper fleet.
Send your dredge spec — clamshell, mechanical bucket, or hydraulic cutter — plus production rate, cut depth, current, and disposal cycle. We'll size the platform, the spuds, and the hopper count against your campaign and confirm bull-rail vs dedicated hopper economics for your spoil volumes.
Questions
Dredging FAQ
Pricing, specs, lead times, and delivery — straight answers.