Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission’s (ORSANCO) annual Ohio River Sweep, 30 “mini-sweeps” have taken place so far this year, and it’s not too… Read More
Archive: 2021
A Mississippi River historian has been drawing attention in the Twin Cities region to a buried concrete cutoff wall, 140 years old, that has been protecting St. Anthony Falls. The… Read More
The Paducah Propeller Club elected four new board members by secret ballot at its August 17 meeting, the first in-person meeting held since February 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
The Detroit Engineer District recently awarded a contract for dredging at Duluth-Superior Harbor in western Lake Superior on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The more than $2 million contract was awarded to… Read More
Where does most restaurant catfish come from? Most domestic catfish are raised in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana Is catfish farmed in other countries? Catfish is also farmed in Thailand, Vietnam… Read More
A judge sentenced a former maritime training academy administrator August 16 who, prosecutors say, sold fake merchant mariner credentials. At least 252 mariners purchased fraudulent qualifications as a result of… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission canceled its annual low-water inspection trip and public hearings on board the mv. Mississippi, which had been scheduled for August 23–27. “I am disappointed to announce… Read More
During the American Waterways Operators’ Summer Safety Committees meeting in Chicago August 11–12, AWO’s Tankering and Barge Operations Subcommittee presented AWO affiliate member Arcosa Marine Products Inc. with the subcommittee’s… Read More
Crosby Tugs and SEA.O.G Offshore announced August 18 that they will merge to focus on delivering installation support and operations and maintenance support for the offshore wind industry. Crosby Tugs,… Read More
The American Public Works Association (AWPA) has named the emergency repair of Cincinnati’s Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River as one of its projects of the year. Kentucky Gov. Read More
