The Chicago Engineer District has extended the comment period for the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP), and integrated Environmental Impact Statement. Comments were originally due… Read More
Dredging
Because this year’s floods have brought millions of extra tons of silt to the Upper Mississippi River, the St. Paul Engineer District has begun dredging operations earlier than usual. It… Read More
The Galveston Engineer District executed a modification to the West Fork San Jacinto River Emergency Debris Removal contract June 7 to dredge an additional 497,400 cubic yards of material that… Read More
Commerce is moving again on the entire length of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway thanks to the Mike Hooks dredge E. Stroud clearing a pilot channel below Aberdeen Lock and Dam at… Read More
Visitors to the Pass A’Loutre Wildlife Management Area to the south and east of Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River will have to watch where they step this… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced May 21 the Mike Hooks dredge E. Stroud has established a pilot channel near Aberdeen Lock at Mile 357.5 on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway… Read More
On January 7, the Galveston Engineer District awarded a $92 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company to deepen and widen a 7.6-mile reach of the Corpus Christi… Read More
A pair of smaller Louisiana waterways—the Houma Navigation Canal and bayous Chene, Boeuf and Black—will receive additional dredging funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ fiscal year 2019 work… Read More
The Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan includes an additional $59 million in funding for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This funding brings the… Read More
Weeks Marine’s new $60 million cutter suction dredge, the JS Chatry, under construction at C&C Marine & Repair in Belle Chasse, La., reached a major milestone November 27 when the… Read More
