by MBJ Staff Published: November 13,2012
Tags: boat, boating, employer, employment, engineer, engineering, environment, federal agency, flood, flood control, flooding, job, navigation, river, ship, shipping, traffic, transportation, wildlife, work
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and the barge industry are imploring the federal government to keep water flowing on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers or face potential “economic disaster.” The nearly year-long drought has left many waterways at historic lows. Nixon sent a letter urging the Army Corps of Engineers to rethink plans [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 8,2012
Tags: bid, boat, boater, boating, contract, government, harbor, land, property, raze, state agency, storage, swap, torn down
OCEAN SPRINGS — The state Department of Marine Resources is going to tear down and remove the large boat storage shed it owns in Ocean Springs Harbor. The Sun Herald reports it will not be swapped for land on Back Bay in Biloxi. Bill Walker, head of the DMR, said Wednesday they couldn’t work out [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 2,2012
Tags: bid, boat, boater, boating, builder, building, city, construction, contract, government, habor, municipal, municipality, outdoor, water sports
PASS CHRISTIAN — The city of Pass Christian has split its harbor improvements project into three parts. Mayor Chipper McDermott tells WLOX-TV the decision was made after bids came in higher than expected on the $33-million project. McDermott said the phase one dredging work is already finished and phase two, which involves concrete pilings, is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: boat, boat storage, boater, boating, land, marine resources, property, real estate, state agency, swap, trade
OCEAN SPRINGS and BILOXI — Lawyers at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources are looking at a proposal to swap land and businesses the DMR owns at the Ocean Springs Harbor for acreage in Biloxi. A DMR spokeswoman tells the Sun Herald legal discussions are taking place. The move would enable a 168-boat storage shed [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 18,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boating, depth, drought, dry, gaiuge, maritime, measure, measuring, river, sea level, shipping, stick, towboat, traffic, water level, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Reading the depth of the Mississippi River is high-tech stuff compared to decades ago, when engineers used sticks and pressure lines to measure water levels. Still, a clear measure of water in the river when levels are low can be confusing even when updated hourly on the Internet. To get the amount, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 11,2012
Tags: board of supervisors, boat, boating, commission, county, fishing, government, harbor, lease, marina, outdoors, parking, recreation, restaurant, slip, supervisor, tourism, tourist, vacation, vacationer, visitor
OCEAN SPRINGS — Jackson County supervisors have approved a plan for the Harbor Commission to manage and lease parking and boat slips that will be created when the state removes a boat shed and restaurant from the county’s Ocean Springs Harbor. County leaders said the Department of Marine Resources will need to first remove the [...] [...]
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 23,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boating, commercve, drought, dry, maritime, port, river, severe e=weather, ship, shipping, towboat, transportation, water level, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Authorities have reopened the Mississippi River to some boat traffic, hours after freeing a barge that ran aground in dangerously low waters caused by an extensive drought. A trickle of barges had begun heading north as of late afternoon, but clearing all 33 northbound tows and 72 southbound barge strings was going [...] [...]
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