Mat Sinking Unit News Today

To mark its 150th anniversary, the Vicksburg Engineer District hosted a formal celebration at its headquarters on August 23.

The Memphis Engineer District’s new bank grader, Grader 1, is already hard at work helping to provide riverbank stabilization.

The new Corps Mat Sinking Unit, named Armor 1, is due to be completed at Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors in late 2023 or early 2024.

The Vicksburg Engineer District's Mat Sinking Unit is celebrating its 74th year of operation this year.

The Vicksburg Engineer District has announced the selection of Maurice Gilmore as the new chief of the Mat Sinking Unit.

The Vicksburg Engineer District held a ship-out ceremony July 18 to commemorate the deployment of the Mat Sinking Unit for its season.

Waterways Journal Industry People on the Move for July 2022

With a new drydock in the works and one of its existing drydocks recently refurbished, the Ensley Engineer Yard is improving efficiency.

Thu April 29, 2021 - Southeast Edition #9 Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent The Mat Sinking Unit sinks articulated concrete squares into the Mississippi River during a recent revetment season. Each year, the unit sinks hundreds of thousands of squares into the river to fortify its banks. (USACE photo) The lower Mississippi River is a habitual wanderer. With its water flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of between 200,000 and 700,000 cu. ft. per second, the powerful river constant...

Mat Sinking Unit completes the 2020 season March 17, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District’s Mat Sinking Unit completed its 2020 revetment season March 4. The Mat Sinking Unit placed approximately 266,000 squares of articulated concrete squares, also known as revetment, along the Mississippi River before its return to the Vicksburg Harbor on March 6 after 230 days of deployment, the second longest deployment in ...