With a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers multi-million dollar contract awarded to them this week, a North Dakota company will be building border wall at Yuma, Ariz.

On Monday, the Corps announced that Fisher Sand and Gravel Company of Dickinson will receive nearly $270 million of a nearly $400 million contract.

The contract is to design-build border infrastructure along the southern perimeter of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, according to Corps information.

The estimated date for the completion of the project is Dec. 30, 2020.

“Fisher Industries will receive almost $270 million of this nearly $400 million project, which will go toward designing and building physical barriers along about 31 miles of the southern border in Yuma, Arizona,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer. “I am glad to see more progress being made to secure the southern border, and I am grateful to see a good North Dakota company like Fisher Industries getting some of the work. I know they will do very well, performing high quality work at a good bargain, all for the security of the people of the United States.”

“Fisher Industries has the right experience to build the wall on the southern border and we’re pleased that the Army Corps of Engineers has selected them to design and build this portion along the southern border in Yuma, Arizona,” said Sen. John Hoeven. “We need to secure the border and enforce the law, and this work by Fisher will help us to efficiently and effectively build border infrastructure, which along with personnel and technology, is an important part of our national security.”

In April during a visit to Arizona, Fisher Industries demonstrated to members of Congress including Cramer and other officials how the private company can build more than 200 miles of border fence on the southern border and at less money than the federal government says will cost for the project.

Besides Cramer, the group included Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., several House members, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

The Dickinson-based company was one of four companies awarded contracts to build concrete border wall prototypes for the southern border wall, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The company then made a formal, unsolicited offer to Trump administration officials in Washington to build wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have the entire job finished in 13 months.

The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, where the North Dakota-based company will build the border wall, is in southwestern Arizona along 56 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The more than 860,000-acre refuge, located within the Yuma Desert, is the third largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states. The majority of the refuge is wilderness.

The refuge also is an active corridor for illegal entry and smuggling into the United States, according to news reports.