Low-Water Woes Continue On Ohio, LMR - The Waterways Journal
With no rain relief in sight, historic low water on the inland river system continues to block channels and restrict tow sizes.
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With no rain relief in sight, historic low water on the inland river system continues to block channels and restrict tow sizes.
Jay McDaniel of Kirby Corporation has been elected chairman of the Lower Mississippi River Committee with Randy Chamness of ACBL as co-chair.
Work by the Corps of Engineers repairing a stone dike at Victoria Bend on the Lower Mississippi River could cause major delays in transiting the area.
Capt. David Barchie looks for new challenges and opportunities every day. That’s why working on the river has always appealed to him. Barchie, 60, of Daphne, Ala., began working for American Commercial Barge Line in 1983 and went up into the wheelhouse in 1986, but he has been on the river for far longer. Barchie was in high school when he worked for a summer as a deckhand for the former Dick Meyers Towing Service, based in Mobile, Ala. At the time, his father was also working on the river, for Ohio Barge Line. “I used to go down there on Saturdays when he worked traffic and fish off the ...