Scientists, engineers and contractors were scheduled to begin installing a temporary, experimental underwater Acoustic Deterrent System, or uADS, at Mississippi River Lock and Dam 19 between Keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Ill.,… Read More
Author: David Murray
The St. Paul Engineer District is donating three acres of historic riverfront property to the city of Minneapolis. The land sits behind the lock and dam at Upper… Read More
Both houses of Congress passed a measure long sought by flood-vulnerable towns and rivers bordering the Mississippi River: the Resilience Revolving Loan Fund Act. The bill was passed on… Read More
The judge in the Ideker Farms Missouri River “takings” case has ordered the Corps of Engineers to pay a group of landowners along the Missouri River for flood… Read More
The incoming administration of President Joe Biden has announced it will nominate Pete Buttigieg for secretary of transportation. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., was a presidential… Read More
Speakers at a conference for bulk terminal operators said China is buying up every kind of commodity at a “mind-blowing” rate, with the country’s imports propping up trade… Read More
The passenger cruise industry has been one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. In its early days, several outbreaks aboard ocean passenger liners were highly publicized on… Read More
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has withdrawn a ruling reversing a lower court and agreed to rehear a maritime case en banc—that is, with the full panel… Read More
The availability and effectiveness of a vaccine for COVID-19 will be the single biggest factor driving any economic recovery in the coming months. That was the opening message… Read More
Officials from the Corps of Engineers celebrated the Corps’ unprecedented achievement in completing the simultaneous upgrades and repairs to six locks and dams in the Illinois Waterway system in… Read More
