Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Expansion Projects

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to begin $1.7B dry dock project. Here's what it will look like.​

Super flood basin at dry dock 1 to be completed first which then allows the multi mission basin to be completed.

Completed multi mission dry docks project which turns the super flood basin into two additional dry docks.

2021

“Dignitaries are expected at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Wednesday for the groundbreaking of a $1.7 billion project to construct a multi-mission dry dock.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro will serve as the keynote speaker for the 10 a.m. event. U.S. senators and congressional representatives from both Maine and New Hampshire will be in attendance.

The construction project, which was awarded Aug. 13 to Omaha, Nebraska-based 381 Constructors, is expected to take seven years. It is part of the Navy's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. It will expand and reconfigure the shipyard’s Dry Dock 1 area, to increase the capacity to maintain, modernize, and repair the Navy's attack submarines, according to a statement released by the shipyard

SIOP is a joint effort between Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, and Navy Installations Command to recapitalize and modernize the infrastructure at the Navy's four public shipyards.……”

https://www.seacoastonline.com/stor...frastructure-optimization-program/5757693001/

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has big plans for 2025 and beyond. Here are major projects.​

“KITTERY, Maine — The seven-year $1.87 billion dry dock expansion at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is about halfway to completion, an effort that kicked off with a September 2021 groundbreaking featuring Secretary of the NavyCarlos Del Toro.

The project is expanding the yard’s Dry Dock 1 area so the shipyard can hold five Los Angeles- and Virginia-class submarines at a time for repair, maintenance and modernization efforts. The nation’s oldest shipyard currently has the capability to hold three submarines in its three dry docks….”

“The entire dry dock expansion is expected to be completed by August 2028, on schedule….”

https://www.seacoastonline.com/stor...val-shipyard-major-upgrades-2025/76862483007/

 

[TC_zoid]

Why is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the New Hampshire thread? It's in Kittery, Maine. When I visited New York Pizza in Hollywood, CA last year, I didn't think I was in the Big Apple.

 

[Stlin]

Why is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the New Hampshire thread? It's in Kittery, Maine. When I visited New York Pizza in Hollywood, CA last year, I didn't think I was in the Big Apple.

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NH really really wants it to be part of New Hampshire; it went to the Supreme Court in 2001 and lost there. It's trying again via the executive branch.

Piscataqua River border dispute - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in Maine. NH lawmakers want to change that.

The tax status of shipyard employees is driving the resolution urging Congress to change the boundary, a move the US Supreme Court rejected in 2001.

www.pressherald.com

 

[TC_zoid]

Then they need to buy it. The only reason NH thinks that they have some kind of dibs on this property is because of its name, "Portsmouth," and their inability to remove emotion from it. Make an offer.

 

[BeeLine]

Simply have the Navy change the name to Kittery Naval Shipyard. If the Army can do it with their bases why can’t the Navy. Just a thought.

 

[Jouhou]

It's a part of the same NECTA as Portsmouth, close enough. It's like if Cambridge was technically in a different state from Boston. Anyone from other places would still just call it "Boston" just like they do now.

 

[aquaticko]

It's a part of the same NECTA as Portsmouth, close enough. It's like if Cambridge was technically in a different state from Boston. Anyone from other places would still just call it "Boston" just like they do now.

Only difference in this case is likely the integration of the two areas. Boston and Cambridge? You don't have to be from elsewhere to feel like they're one and the same; the longest bridge across the Charles in Boston is less than a half-mile, and obviously having Boston next to MIT and Harvard is a synergy both benefit from.

By contrast, there's no direct link between Portsmouth and the naval base, and being a military base it's obviously not porously connected via people casually coming and going between the city and the island.

TC_Zoid's right; if NH really wants it to be Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the state should buy it. Of course, this would represent an investment in the city and state's future, and it seems that the state legislature is too busy trying to make sure parents can abuse their children; employers can cheat their workers; and the wealthy can abscond with tax revenues, to entertain such concerns as "the state's future".

NH really is the Alabama of New England. The nostalgia will always be there, but I'm glad I left.

 

[NHMaples]

The boundary runs along the middle of the river, and the Supreme Court has barred New Hampshire from asserting otherwise in court. The heart of the dispute can be found in the different tax policies of New Hampshire and Maine. New Hampshire taxes property not wages, and Maine taxes all income. If you own a house in Portsmouth, you are paying high real estate taxes, and if you cross the river to work in Maine, you are also subject to Maine income taxes. Since the people who get the worst of both worlds vote in New Hampshire, their representatives periodically try to come up with a scheme to help their constituents at Maine's expense.