Record-setting rains in the central and upper Midwest in the third week of February combined with melting snowpack to produce sudden and dramatic flooding across an arc from northern Louisiana… Read More
Ohio River
The Ports of Indiana handled 11.8 million tons in 2017, resulting in a 5 percent increase from 2016 and the second-highest annual shipment total in the organization’s 57-year… Read More
Numerous Ohio River news outlets reported a December 19 barge leak on the river. Two months later, the barge owner, Southern Towing from Memphis, Tenn., has… Read More
Remains of the City of Cincinnati. Visible at the bow is the pilothouse from the wrecked sternwheeler Loucinda. (Keith Norrington collection) After observing the centennial of the 1918… Read More
The ice at Cincinnati in 1918. The disastrous winter exactly 100 years ago was a perfect storm involving weather, politics and war. Nowhere in the United States was… Read More
The incident command post Joint Information Center for the barge breakaways on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Pa., and Moundsville, W.Va., was disestablished January 24. A unified command consisting of the… Read More
Corps and Coast Guard officials at Emsworth. (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Engineer District) A unified command consisting of the Coast Guard, the Pittsburgh Engineer District and river industry… Read More
Since the dam wickets were raised at Ohio River Lock 52 on January 6, tows have been transiting through both lock chambers. The Louisville Engineer District had as many… Read More
Braving high river velocity and single-digit temperatures on the lower Ohio River, crews reached a critical Olmsted Dam project milestone on December 28: the setting of the final navigable… Read More
Nine former Kirby Inland Marine towboats are towed to Pittsburgh by the mv. Capt. Robert G. Harrison. (Photo by C.R.Neale) The 15 towboats that Ohio… Read More
