The Tulsa Engineer District has announced several lock closures on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System for later this year. W.D. Mayo Lock, Mile 319.6, will be closed to navigation… Read More
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
On January 19, the Corps of Engineers released its FY21 Work Plan for allocating funds provided in the FY21 Energy & Water Development appropriations bill that was part of the… Read More
Activity at the Tulsa Ports (formerly known as the Tulsa Port of Catoosa) is steadily increasing. In June alone, it reported a record-setting month of barge shipments of 236,249 tons… Read More
The Little Rock Port Authority is nearing completion of a $10 million construction project in the slackwater harbor, partially funded by a 2016 U.S. Department of Transportation TIGER grant, according… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report on one of the most dramatic incidents of the floods of 2019, when two barges broke loose and careened down the… Read More
The Arkansas River will experience a scheduled 10-day complete lock closure during August. David Terry Lock (Lock No. 6) at Mile 108 will be closed August 19 through August 29. Read More
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
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
