The New Orleans Engineer District held its change of command ceremony June 11, with Col. Stephen Murphy assuming command from Col. Michael Clancy. Murphy arrived from the Nashville… Read More
Richard Kaiser
The rain keeps falling in the Midwest, which has seen the wettest year on record. And much of that runoff is bound for the Mississippi River, already in the… 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
Members of the National Waterways Conference (NWC) gathered September 12–14 in New Orleans, La., for the group’s 58th annual meeting. The meeting proved quite timely, coinciding locally with New Orleans’… Read More
Illinois is willing to work with the Corps of Engineers on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam Asian carp control project—but it wants to keep talking about the best… Read More
Demonstration project in 2016 showed that agitating the channel could produce adequate depths for navigation. (File photo by Frank McCormack) The Port of Morgan City, located at the… Read More
Waterway stakeholders converged on the historic French Quarter in New Orleans, La., March 20–21 for the annual Inland Waterways Conference, which focused on topics ranging from winter/spring high water, economic… Read More
Representatives of the Mississippi Valley Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) gathered in New Orleans, La., February 28 and March 1 for the organization’s 2018 construction… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District began opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway last week to divert a portion of the flooding Lower Mississippi River into nearby Lake Pontchartrain and on to… Read More
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