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原文传递 Morgan City Port Celebrates Innovative Dredge, Reopening Of Atchafalaya River

题名：	Morgan City Port Celebrates Innovative Dredge, Reopening Of Atchafalaya River
正文语种：	eng
作者：	FRANK MCCORMACK
摘要：	Stakeholder companies and state, local and regional officials gathered in Morgan City, La., June 7 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the Atchafalaya River to deep-draft navigation. The event, held at the Port of Morgan City's multimodal terminal facility dock, came after a years-long effort from the Port of Morgan City, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Anchorage, Alaska-based Brice Civil Constructors to solve issues with "fluff," or fluid mud, that had cut off Morgan City from deep-draft navigation. "In 2014, we had a successful import-export business going on here," said Mac Wade, executive director of the Morgan City Harbor & Terminal District. "We were dealing with Land O'Lakes, but in early 2015, all that changed due to prior dredging strategy and budget constraints." That prior dredging strategy and related funding constraints involved using traditional hopper or cutterhead dredges to clear the fluff from the Atchafalaya bar channel, the final 8-mile offshore stretch of the Port of Morgan City's navigation channel. The bar channel is part of the Atchafalaya River and Bayous Boeuf, Black and Chene Project, a federally authorized 20-foot-deep by 400-foot-wide channel that connects the Port of Morgan City, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	12
页码：	3,23