by Associated Press Published: August 28,2012
Tags: bench, boat, boater, boating, county government, courts, district, fishing, law, legal, skiing, swimming, water, waterway
PURVIS — A specially appointed chancellor said he would make a ruling within the next few days on whether Lamar County has a state-given right to leave the Pat Harrison Waterway District. The Hattiesburg American reports Chancellor Hollis McGehee was asked yesterday to decide on Lamar County’s request for a partial summary judgment. The county [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 27,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boater, boating, commodity, corn, crop, drought, dry, farm, farmer, farming, grain, hot, port, row crop, severe weather, ship, shipping, towboat, water, water level, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The drought across the nation’s Corn Belt is contributing to record high grain prices and near-record low river levels, both of which are impacting Mississippi’s corn. Corn prices are at $8 per bushel and have been trading in that range for the past couple of weeks. This is compared to about $5.20 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 27,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boater, boating, dredge, dredging, drought, dry, maritime, port, severe weather, ship, shipping, tow boat, traffic, transportation, travel, water, water level, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Another barge grounding near Greenville has closed the Mississippi River to shipping. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Robert Anderson said a barge ran past buoys marking the shipping channel Saturday evening. Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Tippets said yesterday it was refloated, but vessel traffic was not expected to resume before today. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 10,2012
Tags: angl;er, boat, boater, boating, economic development, energy, environment, exploration, explosion, fish, fisherman, fuel, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, opponent, opposition, outdoors, petroleum, pollution, state agency, state government, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — Opponents of offshore drilling in Mississippi Sound say state officials didn’t do enough to consult with others or properly consider all possible economic impacts, such as whether drilling would hurt tourism. The superintendent of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and an opponent who wrote an economic study questioning the benefits of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 6,2012
Tags: boat, boater, boating, dredge, dredging, drought, dry, flood, flooding, port, rain, river, river traffic, sediment, severe weather, ship, shipping, transportation, water, water level, Weather, wet
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — The Army Corps of Engineers says the historic flood of 2011 dumped more sediment than usual in the lower Mississippi River and rivers in Arkansas and Louisiana. And this year’s extreme low water and low flow are leaving it there. The corps’ Vicksburg office says that’s also making normal dredging very difficult, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 30,2012
Tags: beach, bid, bidder, bidding, boat, boater, boating, building, city, city government, construction, contractor, marina, municipal government, municipality, outdoors, recreation, tourism, tourist, vacation, vacationer, vacationing, visitor, water
BAY ST. LOUIS — The deadline for bids on the Bay. St. Louis marina project has been extended to Aug. 8. Officials tell the Sea Coast Echo the two-week extension was granted so other interested contractors could bid on the project. Engineers say 71 bid packets have been sent out. The entire project, including the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 30,2012
Tags: angling, boat, boater, boating, camp, camping, ecosystem, environment, fish, fisherman, fishing, habitat, lake, outdoors, recreatiom, state government, swim, swimmer, swimming, water, water sports
BOLIVAR COUNTY — State wildlife officials say Lake Charles Capps in Bolivar County will reopen in September. The Bolivar Commercial reports the lake was closed in 2006 by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks for renovation. Dennis Riecke, a fisheries biologist with the MDWFP, said that one of the main reasons that the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 16,2012
Tags: boat, boater, boating, dredge, dredging, drought, dry, low water, port, rain, ship, shipper, shipping, transportation, water, water level, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — A year after the Mississippi River swelled to near-historic proportions and flooded farms and homes from Illinois to Louisiana, the level along the waterway’s southern half is so low that cargo barges have run aground and their operators have been forced to lighten their loads. Wide, sandy strips of shoreline usually invisible [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 5,2012
Tags: angling, boat, boater, boating, control, fish, fishing, outdoors, recreation, regulation, reservoir, rule, ski, tourism, tourist, visitor, water, waterfront property
Ross Barnett Reservoir soon will gain control of the 33,000-acre lake that was funded primarily with Hinds County and Jackson tax dollars and is now a draw to 2.5 million visitors annually. Residents living on reservoir property will soon have a majority vote on the board of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District, outnumbering [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 5,2012
Tags: boat, boater, boating, dredge, dredging, drought, dry, maritime, port, rain, river, ship, shipper, shipping, traffic, water, water level, Weather
VICKSBURG — Dredging near the Port of Vicksburg over the past five years should keep the inland port open even as Mississippi River levels fall. Warren County Port Commission executive director Wayne Mansfield tells the Vicksburg Post about $4 million in work completed in 2008 to widen the Yazoo Diversion Canal has put the local [...] [...]
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