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
Atchafalaya River
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
