Ohio River

NLS Asphalt, a division of National Lime & Stone Company, is proposing to expand a mooring area of an existing barge unloading area, the Empire Plant, it operates on the… Read More

Tidewater Rail Operating LLC, Fort Worth, Texas, has applied to the Pittsburgh Engineer District for a permit to expand a docking facility on the right bank of the Ohio River… Read More

The Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport Authority recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to expand the entry point leading to the port. Currently two lanes, the paved road… Read More

The Louisville Engineer District announced April 11 that Corps natural resources managers and other personnel will be conducting prescribed burns at McAlpine Locks and Dam for the remainder of April. Read More

Nucor Corporation announced March 27 that it will build a new state of the art steel plate mill in Brandenburg, Ky., along the Ohio River southwest of Louisville. The company… Read More

An already-soaked middle and southern U.S. will soon be getting another surge of water from snowmelt from the “bomb cyclone” that pummeled part of the Upper Plains with “historic” levels… Read More

The barge industry is getting socked by closed locks and consequent delays on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Members of the Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) were briefed on… Read More

This high-water season is threatening to break records along the whole length of several river systems. Higher-than-expected rainfalls in the last weekend of February caused high water in the Ohio… Read More

The U.S. Army announced 43 promotions and personnel shifts on February 19, including some important shifts within the Corps of Engineers. Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser, the current commanding general… Read More