by MBJ Staff Published: March 19,2013
Tags: baoting, barge, boat, boater, engineer, engineering, federal agnecy, federal government, flood, flooding, floodwater, maintenance, navigation, river, ship, shipper, shipping, towboat
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District’s (Corps) Mat Sinking Unit (MSU), has completed an extended mat-sinking season. This revetment season included a larger than normal program with critical repairs being made to sites damaged as a result of the 2011 historic flood. During this longer, eight-month, revetment season, the MSU placed [...] [...]
It has been a busy 30 years for Jackson-based engineering firm Neel-Schaffer. The company was founded in 1983 by Hibbett Neel and Gorman Schaffer, both professional engineers, with one office and 18 employees. As Neel-Schaffer celebrates its 30th anniversary, it has 400 employees and 39 offices nationwide with 19 of those in Mississippi. The [...] [...]
HOMEBUILDING Coastal Retrofit Mississippi project helps homeowners strengthen their homes by Lisa Monti Also in this week’s paper EDUCATION USM gets first female business dean by Ted Carter MEDICINE Holly Springs plans first health care zone by Clay Chandler SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Brandon realtor wants harp renaissance in Mississippi by Stephen McDill OUR VIEW Official [...] [...]
Mississippi Valley State University’s director of the Automated Identification Technology program, Dr. Lidong Wang, has been elected president of the Electricity, Electronics & Computer Technology Division of the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering in the United States. Wang attended last year’s ATMAE Conference in Nashville, Tenn., and brought valuable information to enhance MVSU’s [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 11,2013
Tags: barge, boat, boater, boating, drought, engineer, engineering, maritime, navigation, outdoors, port, river, ship, shipper, shipping, towboat, traffic, transportation, travel, water, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Barge operators are crediting the hustle by stewards of the Mississippi River for averting a potentially crippling shutdown of the vital commerce artery. Shippers say the Army Corps of Engineers has done all it can to keep the river open. Those efforts include ongoing work to rid a stretch of the river [...] [...]
The 2012 recipient of the American Council of Engineering Companies-Mississippi Teddy Roosevelt Award is Hibbett Neel, president of Neel-Schaffer Inc., which he co-founded in 1983. Neel received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt and earned a master’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as an officer in the U.S. Army. [...] [...]
Neel-Schaffer Inc. has added Chris Trebisky, PE, PLS, PP. Trebisky has more than 13 years of experience in recreational design, roadway reconstruction, water/wastewater supply and treatment and land surveying. Prior to joining Neel-Schaffer, Trebisky spent 13 years in municipal engineering as a consultant for a variety of local, state and federal agencies. He also served [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 20,2012
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MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Crews scooping out Mississippi River bedrock in southern Illinois are making steady progress but have removed just a fraction of the rock pinnacles that are impeding navigation along a stretch of the drought-plagued waterway, an Army Corps of Engineers official said. Excavating machinery had chiseled away 39 cubic yards of rock by [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 19,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boater, boating, drought, dry, engineer, engineering, level, navigation, port, river, ship, shipper, shipping, traffic, transportation, travel, water, Weather
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division commander Maj. Gen. John Peabody and St. Louis District commander Col. Chris Hall met with state and local representatives yesterday in Alton, Ill., to discuss current and future actions the Corps will take to maintain a safe and reliable navigation channel during low [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 17,2012
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MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Amid strong concerns about the declining level of the already low Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi. Last Saturday, Corps of Engineers officials began releasing water at Carlyle Lake in southern Illinois, saying the additional water [...] [...]
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