The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced $19.6 million in grants to support capital improvements at 28 U.S. small shipyards on June 17 as a part of its… Read More
Author: David Murray
A key Corps of Engineers program has been quietly installing sensors on dredges—both its own and those used by its contractors—and gathering millions of data points to better monitor and… Read More
John Jamison, now an aspiring novelist, grew up on the rivers, in Beardstown, Ill., son of a towboat captain father, Francis B. Jamison, known as “Ben.” “Dad was a towboat… Read More
Montgomery Lock and Dam, located on the Ohio River in Monaca, Pa., 32 miles downriver from Pittsburgh, was temporarily closed after a dredge’s spud apparently struck its sill, according to… Read More
The “worst may be over” for Midwest flooding. That’s according to Accuweather, which said on June 13 that large storm systems are no longer moving in from the Pacific Ocean… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that a failure to properly maintain a fleeting area on the Ohio River was the cause of a January 2018 incident in which… Read More
In the wake of a weekend of more flooding in St. Louis, which overwhelmed a downtown pumping station and breached several levees, officials of the St. Louis Engineer District and… Read More
After 40 years of operations, Marine Builders Inc.—based in Utica, Ind.—has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing was made last month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern… Read More
Continued rains and high water mean that river restrictions, lock closures and delays are now expected until mid-June. At this writing, another storm system has just pushed through the Midwest—again… Read More
On May 24, the Rock Island Engineer District announced that a $779 million plan at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River to prevent the spread of… Read More
