March 1, 2021 By Shelley Byrne The Memphis Engineer District held five ribbon-cutting ceremonies in a single day January 20 to signify the completion of bank armoring, pumping station repair and seepage remediation projects. The day began with Col. Zachary Miller, Memphis Engineer District commander, other district leadership and members of the project delivery team gathering on the banks of the Mississippi River at Hopefield Point in Arkansas. They celebrated the completion of a $984,000 bank armoring project with contractor Midwest Construction. The work involved placing 32,000 tons of riprap along the Arkansas bank underneath three Interstate 55 bridges: the Harahan, Frisco and Memphis-Arkansas. “The Memphis District is responsible for maintaining a safe and dependable Mississippi River navigation channel at all times and for all river stages,” Project Manager Brian Schneider said. “This riverbank armoring improvement project was necessary to extend the existing revetment downstream to protect eroding, over-steepened banks and foundations underneath the Harahan, Frisco and Memphis-Arkansas (I-55) bridges.”