Washington, D.C.—Exceeding expectations, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) managed to steer a budget resolution through his chamber by a vote of 217 to 215. Now comes the hard… Read More
The Waterways Journal
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) has won a reversal of a $3.8 million jury verdict in the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston. The decision reinforces… Read More
Marquette Transportation Company will expand its Paducah, Ky., facility, with more than $5 million in investment, creating up to 55 jobs, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office announced February 27. Read More
Technology, beneficial dredging and aspects of dredging specific to the Great Lakes and Midwest regions will be topics of discussion at this month’s Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Midwest… Read More
Don Getty spent 25 of his 38 years working for the Corps of Engineers on the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, including 19 as the project manager. Getty, 66,… Read More
Cracks found in both lower miter gates during dewatering have extended the closure of the Lockport Lock, located at Illinois River Mile 291. The lock closed for installation… Read More
Capt. Darrell Pyke At age 19, Darrell Pyke was attending a welding school when an older man named Willie Neville struck up a friendship with him. Neville worked on dredges… Read More
Canal Barge has a unique distinction among long-lived towboating companies. “In the 91 years we’ve been operating, Canal Barge has seldom if ever tied up a boat or laid anyone… Read More
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
Capt. Danial Kuntz One of Capt. Danial Kuntz’s first teachers in life was also one of his first in the river business. Kuntz, 39, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, went to… Read More
