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Ice Breaks Barges Loose On Upper Ohio River barges at lock with coast guard

Ice Breaks Barges Loose On Upper Ohio River

January 22, 2018

Corps and Coast Guard officials at Emsworth. (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Engineer District) A unified command consisting of the Coast Guard, the Pittsburgh Engineer District and river industry… Read More

CG Responds To Sunken Vessel, Oil Discharge

January 15, 2018

The mv. Gate City sank in the Big Sandy River near Butler, W.Va., January 10. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard) The Coast Guard responded to a sunken… Read More

Corps Issues Ohio Basin Climate Change Study

January 1, 2018

The Huntington Engineer District in cooperation with the Pittsburgh, Louisville and Nashville districts, and the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, prepared an adaptation pilot study to address… Read More

Silver Bridge Collapse Anniversary Commemorated Jack Fowler, right, executive director of the Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center, talks about the Silver Bridge collapse with Tom Smith, West Virginia secretary of transportation, at a reception at the museum before the 50th anniversary memorial ceremony for the bridge collapse on December 15. (Photo by Jim Ross)

Jack Fowler, right, executive director of the Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center, talks about the Silver Bridge collapse with Tom Smith, West Virginia secretary of transportation, at a reception at the museum before the 50th anniversary memorial ceremony for the bridge collapse on December 15. (Photo by Jim Ross)

Silver Bridge Collapse Anniversary Commemorated

December 25, 2017

The communities of Point Pleasant, W.Va., and Gallipolis, Ohio, gathered the morning and evening of December 15 to mark the anniversary of the Silver Bridge disaster. At 4:58… Read More

Point Pleasant Museum Honors Charles Jones

October 16, 2017

Mary Ellen and Charles T. Jones with Jones’ Lifetime Achievement Award from the Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center. In his 100th year, Charles T. Jones keeps… Read More