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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 13,2012
Tags: aid, assistance, disaster recovery, emergency, federal agnecy, flood, flooding, hurricane, natural disaster, rain, state agency, storm, storm surge, tropical, Weather, wind
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — More than two-dozen southern Mississippi counties will receive additional types of reimbursement for Hurricane Isaac storm recovery, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reports. The Federal Emergency Management Agency can reimburse 75 percent of the eligible cost to repair road systems and bridges, water control facilities, public buildings and contents, public utilities, parks, [...] [...]
NEW ORLEANS — An arbitration panel ruled yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency must pay almost half a billion dollars to replace the hospital that served New Orleans’ poor before it was heavily damaged in Hurricane Katrina. The decision ended a long-running dispute between the state and the federal agency, which argued that damage [...] [...]
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