On June 5th, 2024, the San Dieguito Lagoon W19 Restoration Project hit a new milestone opening the final wetland basin to tidal inundation. See stories below. Hoodline News DelMar Times San Diego Union Tribune NBC San Diego
San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Hits Milestones
The two-year $87 million lagoon wetland restoration project being constructed by Marathon Construction at the San Dieguito Lagoon just east of Interstate 5 is achieving construction milestones and remains on target for completion this Summer 2024. The 84-acre lagoon restoration project between Interstate 5 and El Camino Real is creating new tidal salt marsh and… [Read more]
San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration project will convert 84 acres of wetlands
Marathon Construction Corp. crews continue to work on the San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration project in Del Mar, which will convert 84 acres — or approximately 63 football fields — of former agricultural fields to saltwater wetlands. Read more here.
Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) Tours San Dieguito Wetlands Project
On August 28 2023, Marathon Construction Corporation was privileged to welcome the honorable Mike Levin, U.S. representative for California’s 49th congressional district, for a tour of the San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Project Phase II. Read more here and here.
Marathon Featured by John Deere at 2023 Con Expo
Marathon Construction was honored to be the “Star of the Show” at the John Deere 2023 Con Expo. Watch the video here.
Lake Hodges Dam repair continues
Lake Hodges Dam repair continues Reservoir closed for recreation because of lowered water level Read more here
Marathon Construction Company Restores Wetland with Fleet that Exerts Low Ground Pressure
A high-production job like the San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration Project calls for expertise from both the contractor and its equipment dealer. The earthwork portion of this eight-year project will take approximately two years of digging in the the water table, so each heavy piece of machinery needs to exert the lowest ground pressure During the… [Read more]
Marathon Awarded Lake Hodges Emergency Repair Project
Marathon Construction Corporation was awarded a sole-source contract by the City of San Diego to perform emergency repair work on the Lake Hodges Reservoir Dam in Escondido. Project information can be found on the City website as well this video on YouTube.
Restoration of Wetlands Moves Along
An excavator works on Phase II of the San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Project in North County on Wednesday. One of the things the project will do is convert around 84 acres of former agricultural land into tidal wetlands. Read all about it here
San Elijo Lagoon Restoration Wins APWA Project of the Year!
The American Public Works Association (APWA) honored the San Elijo Lagoon Restoration as Project of the Year in 2021! The ongoing and momentous restoration project would not be possible without the work from SANDAG and Caltrans Build NCC, The Nature Collective, Marathon Construction, and the joint venture: Flatiron, Skanska, Stacy and Witbeck (FSSW). Read all… [Read more]
New Walking Trails Opened at San Elijo Project
Like the Ballona Wetlands and most other southern California tidal wetlands, San Elijo was gradually filled in over a century. Bulldozers unfilled it over the past 18 months. Full Patch Article
Marathon Awarded $7.4 Million Job at Naval Base San Diego
Marathon Construction Co. of Lakeside on Thursday was awarded its latest Pentagon contract — a $7.37 million job to repair the quay wall at Naval Base San Diego. The work provides for the renovation of several sections of the “deteriorated” quay wall along the piers, including repair of the quay wall substructure, steel sheet piles,… [Read more]
Sand replenishment project — part of lagoon restoration — complete
2018-07-20 Union Tribune Sand replenishment project — part of lagoon restoration — complete BY PHIL DIEHL Officials celebrated the completion of another big North County beach replenishment project Tuesday and a milestone in the $120 million restoration of the San Elijo Lagoon. To prepare for the restoration, workers dug nearly 440,000 cubic yards of clean sand… [Read more]
Cardiff State Beach Awarded One of Nation’s Best Restored
2018-07-17 Cardiff State Beach Awarded One of Nation’s Best Restored Read story on the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy blog.
Construction Begins on Lagoon Restoration Project – Civil Engineering Magazine – January 2018
Marathon Gets $9.6M Renovation Contract for Pier 13 at Naval Base San Diego
See story at NBC San Diego.
Marathon Construction welcomes aboard our partner Ross Island Sand and Gravel
San Elijo Lagoon Restoration Project Contract Executed
Pier 2 Restoration work at Naval Base San Diego underway at sunset
Marathon Construction nominated for “AGC Build San Diego Awards 2017”
Groundbreaking for San Elijo Lagoon Restoration
RESTORATION GROUNDBREAKING 29 November 2017: 11 am -1 pm Ceremony at San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center
San Elijo Lagoon Restoration
Busy week getting ready for the SELR Restoration. Close to contract execution and start of construction!
Construction crew turns Del Mar Fairgrounds parking lot into tidal wetland
Del Mar Times by Joe Tash A construction crew is digging up thousands of cubic yards of dirt from a former parking lot next to the Del Mar Fairgrounds as part of an ambitious plan to restore the property to a tidal wetland, as it existed long before humans began developing the North County coast…. [Read more]
AGC Recognizes the Best in the Industry
AGC recognized 15 member companies with an Aon Build America Award. For more than 20 years, these prestigious and coveted awards were given to projects selected by a panel of a contractor’s toughest critics: other contractors. Here are this year’s winners.
AGC honors contractors for safety, good business practices
The Associated General Contractors of America San Diego chapter honored local companies for excelling in business, striving for safety and making personal contributions during the group’s recent annual installation dinner.
Coastal wetlands project shows progress halfway to completion
Coastal wetlands project shows progress halfway to completion DEL MAR – The birds are already casing the place, despite the rumbling excavators and bulldozers busily digging and hauling soil along a network of dirt roads. They are endangered California least terns, and when the machinery is gone, there will be nesting sites for them and… [Read more]
Building a Wetland
$86M job is to restore 440 acres of San Dieguito River Valley DEL MAR —- Attention coastal commuters: That fleet of heavy equipment clearing brush and digging holes in the San Dieguito River Valley at Via de la Valle is not preparing the ground for a shopping mall.
Work on $86 million lagoon restoration to begin
DEL MAR —- After nearly 15 years of planning, legal wrangling and securing permits, an $86 million restoration of the San Dieguito Lagoon is to begin this month. Read full article here.