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16 May

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 51622

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022) and has commenced dredging on the Crossings.  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the…

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10 May

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 51022

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022) and has also commenced dredging on the Crossings.  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen…

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11 Apr

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 41122

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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22 Mar

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 32222

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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17 Mar

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 31722

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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15 Mar

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 31522

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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03 Mar

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 3322

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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14 Feb

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 21422

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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10 Feb

Lower Mississippi River (LMR) Dredging Update 2922

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, Dredging Update, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continues channel maintenance dredging in Southwest Pass (Fiscal Year 2022).  The USACE previously completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel Deepening (MRSC) to…

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10 Oct

ANTICIPATED CLOSURE OF WHITE CASTLE ANCHORAGE

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, USACE

The industry dustpan dredge WALLACE McGEORGE continues working on a channel maintenance assignment at Alhambra Crossing (Mile 190.5 Above Head of Passes [AHP]).  The NOBRA and Federal Pilots intend to have the White Castle Anchorage cleared of vessels by 0600…

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12 Sep

REMINDER: Ship Channel Closure for HDDA Dredging Operations

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging

The dredge contractors for the Hopper Dredge Disposal Area (HDDA), Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) completed dredging at 2146 hours on September 10, 2021.  GLDD representatives have confirmed that they are prepared to commence pipeline removal operations in accordance…

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09 Sep

Rescheduled Ship Channel Closure for HDDA Dredging Operations

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging

The dredge contractors for the dredge project in the Hopper Dredge Disposal Area (HDDA), Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) have rescheduled the full channel closures required to remove the submerged dredge pipeline.  The HDDA dredge contract should be completed…

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23 Aug

DELAYED: Scheduled Ship Channel Closure for HDDA Dredging Operations

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, River Closure, USACE

The dredge contractors for the dredge project in the Hopper Dredge Disposal Area (HDDA), Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) encountered delays that have forced the previously scheduled channel closures dates to be adjusted.  The closures are needed to remove…

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17 Aug

Scheduled Ship Channel Closure for HDDA Dredging Operations

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging

The dredge contractors for the dredge project in the Hopper Dredge Disposal Area (HDDA), Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) plan to remove the submerged dredge pipeline that was installed across the Ship Channel in January 2021.     In order…

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06 Aug

UPDATE SCHEDULED SHIP CHANNEL CLOSURE(S) For Dredging Operations

Big River Coalition, Breaking News, BulletinsDredging, River Closure, USACE

Please accept this update regarding current plans related to scheduled channel closure(s) on the Mississippi River Ship Channel (MRSC), the schedule remains the same as lost broadcast (Tuesday, August 17, 2021). The cutterhead dredge C.R. McCASKILL (Weeks Marine) is expected…

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29 Jul

POSTPONED: SHIP CHANNEL CLOSURE(S) For Dredging Operations

Big River Coalition, Breaking News, BulletinsBig River Coalition, Dredging

Please accept this update regarding scheduled channel closure(s) on the Mississippi River Ship Channel, the schedule has been adjusted once again. The dredge contractors for the Coastal Restoration Protection Authority’s Spanish Pass Marsh and Ridge Creation project, Weeks Marine, LLC…

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16 Jul

UPDATE: SHIP CHANNEL CLOSURE(S) For Dredging Operations

Big River Coalition, Breaking NewsDredging, River Closure, USACE

Please accept this Update regarding an upcoming scheduled closure(s) of the Mississippi River Ship Channel. The dredge contractors for the Coastal Restoration Protection Authority’s Spanish Pass Marsh and Ridge Creation project, Weeks Marine, LLC intend to install a submerged dredge…

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06 Jul

UPCOMING SHIP CHANNEL CLOSURE(S) For Dredging Operations

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, River Closure

The dredge contractors for the Coastal Restoration Protection Authority’s Spanish Pass Marsh and Ridge Creation project, Weeks Marine, LLC intends to install a submerged dredge pipeline across the Mississippi River Ship Channel at approximately Mile 9.8 Above Head of Passes…

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09 Jun

Beneficial Use of Dredge Material Record Fiscal Year 2021

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, USACE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mississippi Valley New Orleans (MVN) beneficially used a record shattering 30.5 million cubic yards (mcy) of dredged material in Fiscal Year 2021. The beneficially used sediment was removed by dredges performing channel maintenance…

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05 Mar

PROSPECTIVE CHANNEL CLOSURE APPROXIMATELY Mile 10.5 to Mile 8.5 Above Head of Passes

Big River CoalitionBig River Coalition, Dredging, USACE

The dredging contract for the Spanish Pass Ridge and Marsh Restoration Project was awarded to Weeks Marine the contract will remove sediment from a borrow area that includes portions of the Lower Venice Anchorage (Mile 9.6 Above Head of Passes…

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