Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) released a study January 14 focused on examining why the costs of lock and dam projects in the United States have escalated while timelines for completion… Read More
Inland Waterways Trust Fund
The New Orleans Engineer District has announced the extension of the comment period regarding the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Lock Replacement draft general reevaluation report (GRR) and integrated… Read More
Day one of the 120th Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) Seminar featured a pair of sessions focused on waterway infrastructure and federal funding. Tracy Zea, president and CEO of Waterways… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District has extended the public review and comment periods for its Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Lock Replacement Draft General Reevaluation Report (GRR) and integrated Supplemental… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District has published its draft supplemental general reevaluation report (GRR) and integrated supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) for the replacement of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal… Read More
The Corps of Engineers released its Fiscal Year 2025 Work Plan May 15, with funds allocated for Chickamauga, Montgomery and T.J. O’Brien Locks. The Bayou Sorrel… Read More
Few inland waterways leaders have served as long, as productively or in so many different positions as Marty Hettel. Starting in the inland waterways industry as a deckhand in1980, Hettel… Read More
The operation of all advisory committees—including the Inland Waterways Users Board and several others in which our industry advises the Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard—is being paused while the… Read More
At a hearing of the House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Energy and Water on February 25, Lt. Gen William H. “Butch” Graham Jr., incoming Chief of Engineers, admitted that the… Read More
With the passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (WRDA), Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work in partnership with the states along the Upper… Read More

