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Tenn-Tom To Hold 43rd Annual Conference In August

June 20, 2025

The Tennessee-Tombigbee (Tenn-Tom) Waterway Development Authority, a four-state compact made up of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, will hold its 43rd annual conference August 13–15 at the Grand Hotel Marriott… Read More

Mobile District Awards Inland Dredging $40 Million Contract

June 13, 2025

The Mobile Engineer District has awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $40 million to Dyersburg, Tenn.-based Inland Dredging Company LLC for the rental of a 24-inch cutterhead dredge with operator. Read More

Waldon Pens Memoir, History Of Tenn-Tom

May 23, 2025

Don Waldon, the longtime administrator of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, has released a personal memoir and history of the waterway titled “Journey To The River.” The book chronicles both… Read More

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Jesse Rogers, Corps of Engineers and R&D Maintenance

February 14, 2025

Capt. Jesse Rogers Few people know the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway as well as Capt. Jesse Rogers and his crew. Rogers is captain of the mv. Tenn-Tom, the Corps of Engineers-owned towboat… Read More

Tenn-Tom Turns 40 First Tow on the Tenn-Tom

Tenn-Tom Turns 40

January 31, 2025

One of America’s newest waterways, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), turned 40 last month. Four decades ago, on January 14, 1985, the mv. Eddie Waxler departed Mobile, Ala., and headed… Read More

Bearing Failure Causes Unplanned Closure At Cochran Lock

February 23, 2024

With the extended closure at Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River in Alabama ongoing, the Mobile Engineer District has announced a second, albeit much shorter, unplanned lock closure within… Read More

Corps Assets Arrive At Demopolis, Repair Plan Takes Shape Corps of Engineers crews had to remove and reset stoplogs at Demopolis Lock last week to position vessels for the repair project, which is expected to last until May. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Corps of Engineers crews had to remove and reset stoplogs at Demopolis Lock last week to position vessels for the repair project, which is expected to last until May. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Corps Assets Arrive At Demopolis, Repair Plan Takes Shape

February 9, 2024

Almost a month has passed since a large portion of the upper miter sill at Demopolis Lock broke off and fell into the chamber on January 16, and the… Read More

Corps Continues Work at Demopolis Despite Weather Water rushes under the upper miter gate of Demopolis Lock following a breach of the gate sill January 16. (U.S. Army photo by Ryan Reich)

Water rushes under the upper miter gate of Demopolis Lock following a breach of the gate sill January 16. (U.S. Army photo by Ryan Reich)

Corps Continues Work at Demopolis Despite Weather

January 26, 2024

Nearly two weeks after a portion of the upper miter sill at Demopolis Lock failed, forcing the Mobile Engineer District to close the lock to navigation, Corps officials… Read More

Tenn-Tom Waterway Sees Increased Interest The first five barges of Chinese-made equipment for the new Ford Motor Company battery plant being built in Haywood County, Tenn., were rerouted via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway because of low water on the Lower Mississippi. The equipment was unloaded at Yellow Creek Port, with two terminals in Burnsville and Iuka, Miss. (Photo courtesy of Yellow Creek Port)

The first five barges of Chinese-made equipment for the new Ford Motor Company battery plant being built in Haywood County, Tenn., were rerouted via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway because of low water on the Lower Mississippi. The equipment was unloaded at Yellow Creek Port, with two terminals in Burnsville and Iuka, Miss. (Photo courtesy of Yellow Creek Port)

Tenn-Tom Waterway Sees Increased Interest

November 22, 2023

While low-water conditions have hampered transit on the Lower Mississippi River for months, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is not dealing with the same circumstances. Mitch Mays, administrator of the… Read More

Tenn-Tom Holds Ribbon Cutting For New Headquarters Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway officials and stakeholders cut the ribbon for a new Waterway Management Center in Columbus, Miss. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway officials and stakeholders cut the ribbon for a new Waterway Management Center in Columbus, Miss. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Tenn-Tom Holds Ribbon Cutting For New Headquarters

October 13, 2023

The Mobile Engineer District’s Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project management team held a ribbon cutting and grand opening October 5 for the waterway’s new Waterway Management Center, located on a bluff… Read More