12
Jul
The USACE held a Navigation Restoration Team Conference today.
Highlights from today’s conference:
NWS/NOAA – (See attached for full briefing package)
Changes from last update:
Tropical Storm Barry.
Tropical Storm Barry located about 95 miles southwest of the mouth of the
Mississippi River.
- Barry’s heading is west-northwest toward the Louisiana coast.
- Hurricane warning remains in effect from Intracoastal City to Grand Isle.
- Tropical Storm Warning in effect Grand Isle to the mouth of the Pearl River, including the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge and west from Intracoastal City to Cameron.
- Flash Flood watch remains in effect for the entire area.
- Heavy rainfall remains the greatest concern with widespread 10-20 inches with locally higher amounts near or greater than 25 inches possibly leading to life-threatening flash flooding.
- Gusty tropical storm force winds, some storm surge and a few tornadoes are also
threats through the weekend.
- Winds near southwest pass will relax some Saturday but more so Sunday and Sunday night.
See the attached for full details.
USACE
- RNA activated. Vessels have cleared the canals.
- Potential still exists for overtopping at IHNC lock and possibly Harvey lock.
- Harvey lock is now closed.
- IHNC lock is now closed.
- Algiers lock is operational and staffed, but RNA cleared.
- Dredges in the vicinity of SWP are safely moored and not working.
- Dustpan dredges at the Crossings are at or headed to safe harbor.
- There are no plans to open more gates at Bonne Carre based on the current forecast.
USCG
- Port Condition Yankee set yesterday.
- Expect Port Condition Zulu (Closure of Port-Stop all vessel movements.) ‘this afternoon’.
- Port Zulu set for COTP Houma which includes Houma, Morgan City, Fourchon, New Iberia, Intracoastal City, Lafayette.
Links:
- Port Condition Whiskey (Click here)
- Port Condition X-Ray (Click here)
- Port Condition Yankee (Click here)
- Port Condition Zulu (Click here)
Levee Districts
- Closing all river gates on flood walls in Orleans Parish.
- Seabrook closed. Sector gates closed or are closing.
PORTS
- Monitoring.
Pilots
- BAR –
- Reports that In-river 4-5 seas with high wind gusts.
- Operations have shutdown.
- Oakville floodgate on HWY 23 closed.
- Will move equipment and people back down after the storm as soon as they can.
- CRPPA –
- Having to re-anchor ships now and will continue to do so as long as they can reach the ships via launch.
- Still have pilots at Pilottown.
- NOBRA – (No Change – monitor)
- In order to minimize the number of ships at anchorages which in-turn reduces the danger to the levees, the following applies:
- NOBRA will swap a ship from an anchorage to a dock, with a ship from that dock to that anchorage (one-for-one) in NOBRA area of responsibility AOR only.
- NOBRA will not move vessels up from the lower river to anchorages in their AOR.
- NOBRA will not shift a vessel from a dock to an anchorage if there’s no vessel in that anchorage that’s moving to that dock.
- In order to minimize the number of ships at anchorages which in-turn reduces the danger to the levees, the following applies:
- Federal –
- Moving 1 vessel at this time.
- Standing by.
TOWING INDUSTRY
- GICA – Monitoring.
- GNOBFA – Monitoring.
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