A team from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has reported that between 2021 and 2023 breeding surveys recorded 160,970 cumulative detections of 74 species of birds… Read More
Dredging
The Pittsburgh Engineer District is moving up creation of a 100-foot navigable channel through the former dam on the Lower Monongahela River at Elizabeth, Pa. While the channel through the… Read More
The Corps of Engineers Dredge Jadwin, its crew and its owners—the Vicksburg Engineer District—has been awarded the 2024 Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Annual Safety Excellence Award for a “dredging stakeholder.”… Read More
For Ray Bergeron, what started as a summer job during college grew into a career that has spanned more than 60 years. Bergeron, 80, of Trenton, Mich., founded Cable Arm,… Read More
The Pilottown Anchorage is the lowermost anchorage on the Mississippi River Ship Channel. The anchorage is intended to provide a safe location for vessels with a draft of 45 feet… Read More
Col. Jeremiah Gipson assumed command of the Vicksburg Engineer District from Col. Christopher Klein in a formal change of command ceremony June 14. Mississippi Valley Engineer Division Commander Brig. Gen. Read More
Vesconite Hilube no-swell, lubrication-free bearings will be installed as the ladder pump bearings on a dredge that is currently undergoing a major maintenance overhaul, the company announced recently. This follows… Read More
Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group has received the formal notice to proceed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a new medium-class hopper dredge… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District and the city of Wabasha, Minn., are set to sign a historic river sand management document July 24 during a brief ceremony in Wabasha. The… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG), Panama City, Fla., announced the delivery May 22 of the 8,550-cubic-yard-capacity trailing suction hopper dredge R.B. Weeks to Weeks Marine Inc., Cranford, N.J. “It’s our… Read More
