The record floods of 2019 left Upper Midwest soils so super-saturated that even a modest increase in winter precipitation and runoff could threaten another record flood season on the… Read More
Author: David Murray
Two recent studies by the members of the University of Tennessee’s Transportation Institute have estimated devastating consequences of possible lock closures. One study looks at possible scenarios for corn… Read More
Privately owned San Jose island, one of the barrier islands off the Texas coast, has its own website, which notes that the island, while “historically a ranch…is managed principally for… Read More
On the last day of 2019, a special task force in Missouri released its interim report on recommendations for recovering from the floods of 2019 and strengthening the state’s levees… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District announced to employees and stakeholders that some of its civil works missions will be transferred to the Chicago Engineer District. The operations of… Read More
The two top stories of 2019 were both carry-overs from 2018. A cascading series of devastating spring floods affected every river system. Dozens of flood… Read More
In an agreement that was finalized October 30 but is only now being publicly disclosed, American River Transportation Company (ARTCO) agreed to operate all the assets of TPG Mt. Read More
Last month, the Little Rock Engineer District got $26.7 million in supplemental funds for restoring river infrastructure from the floods of 2019. It is a first installment of a… Read More
America’s Central Port is finishing out its 60th anniversary year by continuing its steady strategy of growth, transformation and diversification. Centrally located with access to four U.S. Read More
A new study based on almost 20 years of fish-sampling data gathered by the Corps of Engineers in the Mississippi River says that the spread of Asian carp has… Read More
