The Mobile Engineer District has released the Draft Feasibility Report and integrated Environmental Assessment (Draft FR/EA) of a study that aims to restore fish passage between the Gulf of Mexico,… Read More
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The Mobile Engineer District, along with officials from the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, christened the new survey vessel Miss Agnes April 28 in Columbus, Miss. The 28-foot Miss Agnes is… Read More
The morning of Saturday, May 6, the CSX movable rail bridge that spans the Mobile River at Mile 14 incurred a mechanical issue that left the bridge in an inoperable,… Read More
Justin Murphree, operations project manager for the Mobile Engineer District’s Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, hosted a conference call April 5 with waterway stakeholders to outline a pair of lock closures planned for… Read More
Coffeeville Lock, located at Mile 116.6 on the Tombigbee River, reopened to navigation at 6 p.m. Friday, January 14, after a sunken 41-foot recreational vessel was removed from the lock… Read More
A 41-foot recreational vessel traveling northbound on the Tombigbee River in Alabama entered Coffeeville Lock, located at Mile 116.6 on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT), on January 8 and sank… Read More
After 14 years at the helm of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA), Larry Merrihew has retired as president of the organization, effective August 1. And yet association members and waterway… Read More
After meeting virtually in 2020, members of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) and stakeholders of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) gathered in New Orleans August 4–6 for the organization’s… Read More
A barge loaded with 1,600 tons of rock salt broke away from its mooring at the Port of Clay County near West Point, Miss., on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway overnight June… Read More
Familiar faces abounded at the 71st annual meeting of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA), held May 17–19 at the Grand Hotel Marriott in Point Clear, Ala. The 2021 meeting came… Read More
