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COLUMN INLAND WATERWAY DREDGING

Robust Dredging on

America’s Inland Waterways

Inland Dredging Company helps keep commerce ? owing on America’s inland waterway system.

By William P. Doyle

Dyersburg, Tenn. based Inland On the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers side, Jackson said

Dredging Company completed dredg- Inland Dredging’s primary customers included the Mem- ing projects spanning eight states and phis, Vicksburg, New Orleans and Mobile Army Corps across four U.S. Army Corps of Engi- Districts. Within those Districts, “we dredged waterways neers Districts. Beginning in July and to help hundreds of stakeholders including public and pri- ? nishing in December (2019), Inland vate sector port authorities, harbors, importers, exporters,

Dredging crews dredged ports and har- farmers and railways,” he said.

bors along the Mighty Mississippi River, Vickie Watson, operations project manager for the

Ouachita River, Red River, Black War- Memphis District, said the contract is for the rental of a

Doyle rior River, Atchafalaya River, Tennes- fully operated hydraulic cutterhead dredge and attendant see–Tombigbee Waterway, and the Gulf dredge plant, including discharge pipeline. Bid items in-

Intercoastal Waterway from Apalachicola to Morgan City. clude rental by the hour, towing upstream and downstream

Richard Jackson, Inland Dredging’s Executive Vice Pres- by mile, and mobilization and demobilization.

ident and Chief Operating Of? cer, commenting on the “Every harbor was affected by the high water, but because successful completion of dredging operations, said, “We we have dredged every year over the last four years, it was easy enjoyed a productive 2019 completing projects in eight to remove the sediment that was placed,” Watson noted. “We different states for four Army Corps of Engineers’ Dis- didn’t have any ? ood-related damages in our harbors, and tricts.” He continued, “Inland serviced ports and water- that’s because of the maintenance work we do every year.” ways in Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisi- Inland Dredging used the dredge Integrity, a 24-inch ana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.” cutterhead dredge, along with two tugboats, several barges,

Credit: Inland Dredging Company

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