Repair work continues at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, also known as Lock 1, on the Red River near Marksville, La., after a crack in the miter gate anchorage… Read More
Vicksburg Engineer District
The lockmaster at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, also known as Lock 1, on the Red River near Marksville, La., discovered a crack in the miter gate anchorage on… Read More
On August 18, 1873, Capt. William Henry Harrison Benyaurd, an 1863 graduate of West Point and a decorated Union Army veteran of the Civil War, opened an office of the… Read More
After an extended dredging season prolonged by extreme low-water conditions in the fall and extending into the winter, dredging crews in the Memphis, Vicksburg and St. Louis engineer districts have… Read More
The Vicksburg Engineer District’s Dredge Jadwin and its crew returned to the Vicksburg Harbor January 19, completing the 2022 dredging season. After departing May 10, 2022, the dustpan dredge spent… Read More
The Vicksburg Engineer District continues to address shoaling on the lower reaches of the Red River just below Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, the first lock on the J. Read More
After a two-month closure, which was bisected by a week-and-a-half-long opening to navigation in October, Lindy C. Boggs Lock, the southernmost lock on the Red River, resumed operations November 12… Read More
The present low-water situation on the Upper and Lower Mississippi brings the importance of the large Corps of Engineers dredges to prominence. Those working the rivers and depending on the… Read More
The extreme drought impacting the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee river valleys continues to translate into troublesome low water conditions—and in some places record lows—on the Western Rivers, with draft restrictions… Read More
With the Lower Mississippi River languishing at around 3 feet at the Carrollton Gage and with salt water creeping up from the Gulf of Mexico, the New Orleans Engineer District… Read More