Shelley Byrne

October 11, 2024 By Shelley Byrne Loadstar, a product handling and site logistics company based in Baton Rouge, La., recently expanded its services by offering barge fleeting.

Dive teams and remote-controlled vehicles have inspected the damage to both lower gates at Wilson Lock's main chamber, and a team is on-site to begin slot repair work necessary before it can be dewatered.

While hurricanes Helene and Milton inundated parts of the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland river basins with rain, low-water conditions caused groundings on the Illinois River and threatened the Upper Mississippi.

Despite a blip of relief from Hurricane Helene, the worrying trend of low water on the Middle Mississippi River and Illinois River is continuing for the third year in a row.

The Corps of Engineers hopes to know by December 1 whether repair efforts at Wilson Lock, located at Tennessee River Mile 259.4 in Florence, Ala., will permit limited operation of the main chamber between two anticipated dewaterings.

Friends remembered Robert “Bob” Day as hard-working and down-to-earth with a passion for golf and a devotion for bettering the lives of those in the river industry.

While many people aid in response and recovery after a natural disaster, a team from the Nashville Engineer District hopes its technical assistance in areas flooded during Hurricane Helene could help prepare for future floods.

Between serving lunch and preparing dinner on the mv. Rich McCarty, Max Hiller sits down at the table in the galley and writes the next chapter in his award-winning detective mystery series.

The Corps of Engineers has offered a ballpark cost estimate of $10 million to cover the repair of Wilson Lock and Dam, located at Tennessee River Mile 259.4 in Florence, Ala.

Recent rainfall, with more in the forecast, may be just what the river system needs to break out of this year's drought.