Federal and local elected officials from Iowa and Illinois, media and guests got the rare opportunity to stand on Mississippi River bedrock and see (and, for some, crawl into) the… Read More
Rock Island Engineer District
Winter weather issues, including icing on the Illinois River and low water on the Middle Mississippi between St. Louis, Mo., and Cairo, Ill., are causing headaches for the navigation industry… Read More
The Brandon Road Interbasin Project, a complex, layered barrier against Asian carp that will use several different carp-deterring technologies to keep Asian carp from migrating from the Illinois Waterway to… Read More
The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District (branded as TransPORT) announced August 8 that Robert Sinkler, former commander of the Rock Island Engineer District, is joining the leadership team to… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) has announced the schedule for its annual low-water inspection trip on the Mississippi River. Four public meetings will be held aboard the mv. Mississippi in select towns… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District has released the Mississippi River Project Master Plan with Integrated Environmental Assessment for Pools 11–22 of the Upper Mississippi River. A public comment period on… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District recently released the draft Project Implementation Report with Integrated Supplemental Environmental Assessment for a Fish Passage Improvement Project at Lock and Dam 22 near Saverton,… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District christened the mv. Quincy at the Clat Adams Bicentennial Park in Quincy, Ill., April 30. Several hundred members of the public attended the ceremony, according… Read More
The recent release of the “Infrastructure Report Card” by the American Society of Civil Engineers saw the inland waterways category bumped up to D+ from a straight D for the… Read More
Roger Perk, senior engineer for the Rock Island Engineer District, was honored February 25 by being selected as a 2021 Senior Engineer of the Year by the Quad City Engineering… Read More
