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Historic Low Water Highlights Needs, Cooperation

WJ Editorial

Historic Low Water Highlights Needs, Cooperation

October 14, 2022

The U.S. inland river system is approaching historic levels of low water at the critical harvest time. Comparisons are being raised to the previous historic low water levels of 2012… Read More

The Future Of Inland Buoy Tending WJ Editorial

The Future Of Inland Buoy Tending

February 19, 2021

The Coast Guard’s buoy tender fleet is responsible for maintaining more than 28,200 marine aids throughout 12,000 miles of inland waterways, through which 630 million tons of cargo move annually. Read More

AIS Development Team ‘Ramping It Up’ Virtual ATON transmitted at Lock and Dam 52 to indicate the passage around the locks during high water; as seen on the Corps’ LOMA display.

Virtual ATON transmitted at Lock and Dam 52 to indicate the passage around the locks during high water; as seen on the Corps’ LOMA display.

AIS Development Team ‘Ramping It Up’

May 20, 2019

Brian Tetreault, a navigation systems specialist at the Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss., has been working on developing new capabilities for AIS (automatic identification system)… Read More