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Award purpose

The project will construct two grain storage silos, make electrical service upgrades, and fund the purchase of additional grain and cargo handling equipment to expand the capacity of the port to handle the movement of grain and feed commodities.

Activities to be performed

The recipient, in coordination with its subrecipient, will carry out the following activities on this project:

Component 1: Storage silos.

Excavation of foundations of storage silos.

Pilings and subsurface foundation supports.

Construction of two concrete silos, each will be 70 ft in diameter and 125-135 ft tall, having a capacity of approximately 9000 metric tons (MT).

Purchase and installation of a bin unloading system.

Purchase and installation of a bin aeration.

Engineering and construction management.

Component 2: Grain and feed handling equipment.

Purchase and installation of a bucket elevator and conveyor to add a second receiving line in the receiving building at an additional 20000 bushels per hour capacity.

Purchase and installation of a second conveyor across Carferry Drive at 20000 bushels per hour.

Purchase and installation of two fill conveyors and needed support structures to fill new concrete storage structures coming from the original elevator at 30000 bushels per hour.

Purchase and installation of two unload conveyors of new storage structures that come back to the original ship loading system at 40000 bushels per hour.

Purchase and installation of spouting and accessories to match correct capacity.

Engineering and construction management.

Component 3: Electrical.

Tie into existing electrical service.

Add new motor control center room.

Wire all new motors at 480V 3 phase.

Wire in all hazard monitoring equipment for new conveyance.

Tie into existing programmable logic controller.

Construction management.

Component 4: Rolling equipment.

Purchase railcar mover.

Purchase wheel loader with bucket and forks.

Purchase excavator with corn bucket.

Deliverables expected outcomes

Performance measure table from Schedule G, page 11 of the grant agreement.

Measure category and description

Measurement frequency

Vessel calls.

Economic competitiveness and opportunity measures the number of vessels calling to the project study area.

Must be reported in total and disaggregated by any of the following where applicable: vessels type (e.g., container, bulk, RO-RO, LNG), freight capacity, vessel length, or other.

Quarterly.

Cargo volume.

Competitiveness and opportunity measures the movement of freight through the project study area.

When applicable, report the total cargo volume and the volume disaggregated by type of freight (i.e., containers in TEU and bulk in tons) or type of intermodal transport (truck or rail).

Quarterly.

Intended beneficiary: City of Milwaukee.

Subrecipient activities: None.

City Of Milwaukee

ASSIST IN FUNDING ELIGIBLE PROJECTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THE SAFETY EFFICIENCY OR RELIABILITY OF THE MOVEMENT OF GOODS THROUGH PORTS AND INTERMODAL CONNECTIONS TO PORTS.

20.823 - Port Infrastructure Development Program

Maritime Administration (MARAD) [DOT]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-3599 United States

Single Zip Code

2023 Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants (MA-PID-23-001)