Commercial traffic on the Arkansas River is up 5.8 percent through the first five months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, according to figures collected by the… Read More
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
In a year that has been packed with unwelcome news, it’s worth taking a moment to pause and remember what was happening a year ago. By May of last year,… Read More
Lew Meibergen, 88, former chairman and president of Johnston Enterprises, died April 16 at his home in Enid, Okla. Johnston Enterprises was founded by his grandfather, W.B. Johnston, after the… Read More
The Tulsa Engineer District and Little Rock Engineer District, working together, issued changes on April 1 to crew change procedures at locks and dams along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation… Read More
Finally, much-needed supplemental federal money to restore river channels and repair damage from the flood of 2019, signed into law in June in the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief… Read More
Last month, the Little Rock Engineer District got $26.7 million in supplemental funds for restoring river infrastructure from the floods of 2019. It is a first installment of a total… Read More
While the effort to deepen the channel of the Lower Mississippi River gathers momentum, other channel-deepening efforts continue as well. Both Arkansas River and Red River interests are working on… Read More
Four months after a barge strike at a dam closed the upper reaches of the McClellan-Kerr River Navigation System to navigation, the system reopened on September 30. The news was… Read More
Washington, D.C. – Members of the waterways industry welcomed a funding boost proposed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a major spending bill unanimously approved by the Senate… Read More
Salvors have removed the second of two barges that had been lodged against Webbers Falls Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River since May. Rob Steiner, navigation operations manager for… Read More
