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Insurer settles with county over damaged roads

Associated Press — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:42 +0000

CORINTH — The insurer for a transport company has paid $247,500 for damage to Alcorn County roads in 2011. The board of supervisors accepted the settlement for damage to Holly Church Road and Henson Road. Supervisors say the roads were damaged during a transport job by Burkhalter Rigging of Columbus. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal [...]

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Commission, rail company disagree over bridge fees

Associated Press — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:12:49 +0000

VICKSBURG — The Vicksburg Bridge Commission and the Kansas City Southern Railway have been at odds for eight years on what the railroad will pay to run trains across the Mississippi River on the old U.S. Highway 80 bridge. In September 2005, the five-member commission adopted a per-car rate of $14 — more than triple [...]

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La. officials asking for video of barge striking bridge

Alan Turner — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:59:19 +0000

VICKSBURG — Louisiana officials have informally asked about video from security cameras at the old U.S. Highway 80 bridge where a barge struck the Mississippi River span on March 23, 2011. Vicksburg Bridge Commission superintendent Herman Smith tells the Vicksburg Post the agency has not been served with a subpoena for the video. The highway [...]

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County, city to partner on cost of replacing old bridge

Associated Press — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:55:25 +0000

OLIVE BRANCH — DeSoto County plans to team with Olive Branch on a $600,000 project to replace an old timber-supported bridge on State Line Road over Johns Creek. The Commercial Appeal reports that a consulting engineer working on the project says the bridge is one of DeSoto County’s last remaining timber bridges. The county Board [...]

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Coast Guard says sunken barge no risk to river traffic

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:03:39 +0000

VICKSBURG — Authorities say the barge that sank after hitting a bridge on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg poses no dangers to shipping or the environment. Coast Guard Capt. Bill Drelling said today that the barge is in 80 feet of water so there’s no risk of other barges hitting it. No decision has been [...]

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River reopens after towboat hits I-20 bridge

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:12:03 +0000

VICKSBURG — The Mississippi River re-opened this morning in Vicksburg after barges hit the old U.S. Highway 80 railroad bridge. Coast Guard Lt. Ryan Gomez says that there was enough water covering a barge that sank yesterday to allow other vessels to safely pass through. After the river re-opened at 9:30 a.m. CDT, the coast [...]

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Barge accident closes river, but flooding bigger worry

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:13:11 +0000

VICKSBURG — The Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River at Vicksburg after barges hit a railroad bridge there yesterday and about 30 barges broke free from the towboat “Captain Buck Lay.” Nine towboats — six bound upriver and three heading downriver — with a total of 134 barges were waiting to get through yesterday evening, [...]

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Senate votes to keep McGrath as head of MDOT

MBJ Staff — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:19:58 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Senate has approved the appointment of Melinda McGrath, PE, to remain executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. McGrath’s appointment begins today and will end April 1, 2017, unless it is further extended. As executive director, McGrath, the first woman to serve as leader of MDOT, oversees MDOT’s more than [...]

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Officials watching river walls during rainy weather

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:17:42 +0000

VICKSBURG — Two concrete walls blasted into the Mississippi River bank below the old U.S. Highway 80 bridge are passing a tough test during a rainy start to 2013, bridge officials said, as the latest study on the Interstate 20 bridge shows piers moved at the same pace last year as its older neighbor. In [...]

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Supervisors give firm more time on bridge work

Associated Press — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:32:37 +0000

CHATAWA — Pike County supervisors have agreed to give the contractor more time to complete work on the replacement of a bridge in the Chatawa community. The Enterprise-Journal reports contractor T.L. Wallace will have until May 17. The original deadline was April 2 but officials said recent rains hampered work on the project. The supervisors [...]

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