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
Tennessee River
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
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
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 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
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
Local authorities in Loudon County, Tenn., are not releasing the name of the owner of a runaway barge that was stopped just short of crashing into a Tennessee River bridge. Read More
The barge industry is getting socked by closed locks and consequent delays on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Members of the Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) were briefed on… Read More
This high-water season is threatening to break records along the whole length of several river systems. Higher-than-expected rainfalls in the last weekend of February caused high water in the Ohio… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Division of the Corps of Engineers agreed with industry requests to move the date of the scheduled closure of Lock 25 from March 22 to March 8. Read More
