Then-New Orleans Engineer District Commander Col. Stephen Murphy met with Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine and Plaquemines Port Director Sandy Sanders on September 12 to sign the project partnership agreement… Read More
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The New Orleans Engineer District celebrated its three years under the leadership of Col. Stephen Murphy and the transfer of command to Col. Cullen Jones in a September 16 ceremony… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will embark on a pair of simultaneous lock closures August 30 when the Vicksburg District begins maintenance at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and the… Read More
The Mississippi River, from its headwaters at Lake Itaska to where its passes stretch into the Gulf of Mexico like a taloned bird’s foot, has played a leading role in… Read More
Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, commanding general of the Corps of Engineers, on June 29 signed the Chief of Engineers Report for the South Central Coast, Louisiana project, specifying the recommended… Read More
Stakeholder companies and state, local and regional officials gathered in Morgan City, La., June 7 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the Atchafalaya River to deep-draft navigation. Read More
Col. Stephen Murphy, commander of the New Orleans Engineer District, officially announced June 8 his decision to push the pending closure of Old River Lock to August 30, two weeks… Read More
Members of Congress, the governor, the mayor and other local elected officials, an assistant secretary of the Army, top leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal… Read More
New Orleans Engineer District Commander Col. Stephen Murphy; Tony Alford, president of the Terrebonne Levee & Conservation District board of commissioners; and Chip Kline, chairman of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection &… 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
