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… Read More
Atchafalaya River
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on October 30 awarded a single award task order contract to Alaska-based Brice Civil Constructors Inc. to dredge the last 12 miles of… Read More
Included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which was signed into law February 9, is $17.398 billion set aside for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fund… Read More
Demonstration project in 2016 showed that agitating the channel could produce adequate depths for navigation. (File photo by Frank McCormack) The Port of Morgan City, located at the… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District closed out the month of March by ceasing operation of the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish, La., about 33 river miles upriver… Read More
The Lower Mississippi River remained dangerously high last week, with the Carrollton gage in New Orleans hovering at about 16.5 feet. But the river stage and flow rate through the… Read More
Capt. Stewart Jackson Stewart Jackson grew up on the Atchafalaya, Red and Mississippi rivers, where his father worked as a commercial fisherman before working as a towboat captain… Read More
A hydrologist at Louisiana State University (LSU) presented research at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in New Orleans, La., earlier this month on how sedimentation near the… Read More
