The Alabama Port Authority on October 3 announced that the Mobile Ship Channel has officially reached its authorized depth of 50 feet, marking a major milestone for the… Read More
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Capt. Jesse Rogers Few people know the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway as well as Capt. Jesse Rogers and his crew. Rogers is captain of the mv. Tenn-Tom, the Corps of Engineers-owned towboat… Read More
Holt Lock on the Black Warrior River reopened at 7 a.m. October 2, 102 days after cracks in a monolith caused an unscheduled shutdown. The Mobile Engineer District… Read More
Aging infrastructure will be a prime topic of the Tennessee River Valley Association Conference September 30-October 1 in Franklin, Tenn. TRVA executive director Cline Jones said issues at… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District held an industry day September 4 at Holt Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to discuss the plan to repair a… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District is moving closer to identifying temporary and permanent fixes to the monolith instability issue that forced an emergency closure of Holt Lock on the Black Warrior… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District has ordered the emergency closure of Holt Lock on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Ala., following the appearance of new cracks and a stability… Read More
The 74th annual meeting of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) may go down as one of the most celebratory, thanks to the May 16 reopening of Demopolis Lock in… Read More
Four months to the day after the upper miter sill failed at Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River, the lock reopened to navigation May 16, roughly two weeks ahead… Read More
There’s light at the end of the lock chamber for stakeholders of both the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT) and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), with emergency repairs almost complete at… Read More
