Coal piles along the Fox River in Green Bay, April 11, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Ink is being applied to a deal that would allow the coal piles to relocate from downtown Green Bay to the mouth of the Fox River.
During a signing ceremony Tuesday, Brown County signed a lease agreement with C. Reiss Terminals, LLC for a 60-year lease of the northern portion of the former Pulliam Power Plant site.
The agreement says C. Reiss will move salt piles to the Pulliam site, making room for coal to start being stored at its Fox River Terminals, just south of the Pulliam site. That is expected to happen once construction of the new port at the Pulliam site is done, which is expected to take a year or two.
A construction bid of $44.1 million for the new port was awarded with the total project cost previously estimated to be $57.3 million.
The work is being paid for through a mix of federal, state, and local funds, including $20 million from the most recent state budget and a $15 million grant the state Department of Administration awarded in 2022.
Earlier this year, the project secured a $1.3 million Harbor Assistance Program grant.
The hope is the new port site will be ready in either 2028 or 2029. Coal would eventually stop being delivered to the current site, those piles would be drawn down, and new coal would be delivered to the Fox River Terminals once the salt piles are no longer there.
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