A dredging emergency in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers led river industry representatives to appeal to members of Congress to urge the Corps to better distribute already-allocated emergency dredging… Read More
Illinois Waterway
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
Ozinga Materials & Logistics reached a milestone earlier this year when it loaded out its first barge of limestone from a new port it is developing on the Illinois Waterway. Read More
Amid ongoing flooding and high water along most U.S. river systems, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its spring flood outlook March 21, forecasting widespread flooding to continue… Read More
The Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA)—a five-state interstate organization representing the joint interests of the governors of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin—announced November 27 that it is partnering… Read More
After years of further input from local stakeholders and some controversial delays, the Rock Island Engineer District released its long-awaited final preferred plan for countering the threat of migrating Asian… Read More
The Corps of Engineers posted its FY2018 work plan June 7. The plan distributes the additional funding provided in the FY2018 omnibus bill and identifies new starts and feasibility studies… Read More
The Rock Island District’s two new hydrographic survey boats are at work on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. They were commissioned at District headquarters the week of June 4. Dubbed… Read More
Locks and dams on the Illinois Waterway system are due for major repairs and replacements beginning in 2020 that will shut down the system for extended periods, and stakeholders that… Read More
A group of 14 mayors of cities on or near the Great Lakes, including seven from Canada, published an open letter January 24 in the Chicago Sun-Times urging Congress and… Read More
