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Stage Canopy On Barge Hits Bridge Collapsed canopy of Riverbend stage after it struck the I-24 bridge. (Photo by Keith McLean)

Stage Canopy On Barge Hits Bridge

July 10, 2020

The overhead canopy of a stage previously used at a Chattanooga, Tenn., music festival brushed the underside of the Interstate 24 bridge over Nickajack Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee… Read More

Bid Approved For New Cumberland River Bridge Photo courtesy of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. A rendering shows a tow passing beneath the new U.S. 60 bridge over the Cumberland River to be built at Smithland, Ky.

Photo courtesy of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. A rendering shows a tow passing beneath the new U.S. 60 bridge over the Cumberland River to be built at Smithland, Ky.

Bid Approved For New Cumberland River Bridge

July 2, 2020

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has approved a construction bid for a new bridge carrying U.S. 60 across the Cumberland River at Smithland. Jim Smith Contracting of Grand Rivers, Ky., submitted… Read More

Nashville District Lock Closures Set

June 23, 2020

The Nashville Engineer District has reported the following scheduled lock closures. June 24–28: Chickamauga Lock on the Tennessee River will have intermittent closures from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily… Read More

Friends Plan Pontoon Boat Trip Down Tennessee River Friends Capt. Bob Cherry Jr., Sherman Jones and Sterling Edwards (left to right) prepare to take Cherry’s pontoon boat, My Cheri, down the entire 652-mile navigable length of the Tennessee River. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Friends Capt. Bob Cherry Jr., Sherman Jones and Sterling Edwards (left to right) prepare to take Cherry’s pontoon boat, My Cheri, down the entire 652-mile navigable length of the Tennessee River. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Friends Plan Pontoon Boat Trip Down Tennessee River

May 26, 2020

Three men plan to promote Tennessee River tourism by taking a pontoon boat down the entire 652 navigable miles of the river beginning Memorial Day Weekend. The men, all long-time… Read More

Breakaway Barges Damage House On Tennessee River The U.S. Coast Guard said a house on Arnold Drive in Savannah, Tenn., received significant damage after 14 empty barges broke away from the mv. Roger L. Knight, which had been chartered by Inland Marine Service. (Photo by R. Kelly Jordan, The Courier)

The U.S. Coast Guard said a house on Arnold Drive in Savannah, Tenn., received significant damage after 14 empty barges broke away from the mv. Roger L. Knight, which had been chartered by Inland Marine Service. (Photo by R. Kelly Jordan, The Courier)

Breakaway Barges Damage House On Tennessee River

April 3, 2020

The Coast Guard is investigating after 14 barges broke loose from a towing vessel and hit a house along the Tennessee River near Savannah, Tenn., causing significant damage. The empty… Read More

Kentucky Lake Research Project Nets Asian Carp An Asian carp pulled out of Kentucky Lake. (Photo courtesy of Lee McClellan, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)

An Asian carp pulled out of Kentucky Lake. (Photo courtesy of Lee McClellan, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)

Kentucky Lake Research Project Nets Asian Carp

February 21, 2020

An experimental netting and fish pumping method has resulted in the harvest of thousands of pounds of Asian carp in two of Kentucky Lake’s bays this month. State, federal and… Read More

Final Shell Set For Kentucky Lock Addition Project The Nashville Engineer District and its contractor partner Johnson Brothers put a 1.7-million-pound concrete shell into position February 2 on the riverbed on the downstream end of Kentucky Lock. The last of 10 shells, it will be part of a cofferdam and eventually a permanent part of the new lock wall for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project. (Corps of Engineers photos by Mark Rankin)

The Nashville Engineer District and its contractor partner Johnson Brothers put a 1.7-million-pound concrete shell into position February 2 on the riverbed on the downstream end of Kentucky Lock. The last of 10 shells, it will be part of a cofferdam and eventually a permanent part of the new lock wall for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project. (Corps of Engineers photos by Mark Rankin)

Final Shell Set For Kentucky Lock Addition Project

February 7, 2020

By Lee Roberts Nashville Engineer District Public Affairs A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has placed the 10th and final concrete shell for the Kentucky Lock addition… Read More

Pickwick Landing Dam To Get Quake-Proofing

April 20, 2019

The Nashville Engineer District issued a public notice March 20 that it will perform a seismic upgrade at Pickwick Landing Dam on the Tennessee River. The notice of the improvements… Read More

High Flows Ease On Upper Rivers

Col. John Hudson (left), commander, deputy commanding general for civil works and emergency operations; Maj. Gen. Scott Spellmon; and Contingency Operations and Homeland Security Director Charles Alexander Jr. receive a briefing on flood fighting in the upper Missouri River basin in the emergency operations center of the Omaha District headquarters March 20. (Photo courtesy of Omaha Engineer District)

High Flows Ease On Upper Rivers

March 21, 2019

High water that was unleashed by mid-March’s late-winter storm and melting snow flooded towns and overcame levees along the Missouri River, but began to let up last week. On March… Read More

Last-Minute Save Protected Bridge From Runaway Barge

March 21, 2019

On the night of March 8, a team at Tate & Lyle’s corn wet mill in Loudon, Tenn., received a call from the local Coast Guard unit informing them that… Read More