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Red River

With LMR Stubbornly Low, Corps Begins Construction Of Sill To Block Salt Water Intrusion

October 17, 2022

With the Lower Mississippi River languishing at around 3 feet at the Carrollton Gage and with salt water creeping up from the Gulf of Mexico, the New Orleans… Read More

Lock Closures Will Affect Red, Ouachita Rivers

August 26, 2022

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will embark on a pair of simultaneous lock closures August 30 when the Vicksburg District begins maintenance at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and… Read More

Old River Lock Closure Pushed To August 30

June 10, 2022

Col. Stephen Murphy, commander of the New Orleans Engineer District, officially announced June 8 his decision to push the pending closure of Old River Lock to August 30, two… Read More

Operators Preparing For Scheduled Closures At Lindy C. Boggs, Old River Locks

May 4, 2022

The New Orleans and Vicksburg Engineer Districts have a pair of lock closures scheduled for this summer and fall that will temporarily disrupt navigation on both the Red and… Read More

Mississippi Basin Flood Outlook Shows Little Change

March 25, 2022

The National Weather Service issued an updated flood outlook for the Mississippi River basin and its sub-basins March 10 that showed little change from its previous flood outlook estimate. The… Read More

New Red River Navigation Tool Introduced Red River Graphic

New Red River Navigation Tool Introduced

April 9, 2021

Operators and stakeholders of the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, the federally maintained navigable channel on the Red River, have a new navigational tool at their fingertips, thanks to a new… Read More

Port Of Caddo-Bossier Reaches Cargo Milestone From left, Eric Gilmore from the Red River Waterway Commission, Nucor Corporation’s Jeff Jeffcoat and Ted Knight, director of Operations for Port of Caddo-Bossier, gather for a photo at the luncheon celebrating the 100th barge loaded with steel coils from Nucor handled at the port. (Photo courtesy of Port of Caddo-Bossier)

Port Of Caddo-Bossier Reaches Cargo Milestone

March 13, 2020

The Port of Caddo-Bossier, the northernmost port on the Red River Waterway in Northwest Louisiana, is celebrating a recent cargo-handling milestone. At the end of January, port officials offloaded… Read More

Corps Completes Dewatering Of John H. Overton Lock Vicksburg Engineer District crews inspect and perform maintainence at John H. Overton Lock on the Red River. (Photo courtesy of Vicksburg Engineer District)

Corps Completes Dewatering Of John H. Overton Lock

November 29, 2019

Commercial navigation is moving again through the John H. Overton Lock—also called Lock 2—on the Red River located at Mile 40.8 near Alexandria, La., following a two-month closure for… Read More

Corps To Issue General Permit For Dredging Red River

August 19, 2019

Recognizing the need for speed in restoring navigation channels choked by this spring’s silt, the Vicksburg Engineer District plans to issue a Department of the Army General permit on… Read More

Red River Waterway: A 23-Year-Old Waterway 160 Years In The Making

May 7, 2018

The J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, the formal name of the Red River Waterway, is the commercially navigable portion of the Red River that stretches from the Mississippi River to… Read More

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