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Mississippi River Dredge Tours Highlight Hidden Heroes
| 题名： | Mississippi River Dredge Tours Highlight Hidden Heroes |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID MURRAY |
| 摘要： | This year's extreme drought and resulting low water on the Mississippi River got national and worldwide attention. On December 14, top leaders of the Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard and the towing industry came together to focus some of that attention where it belonged: on the men and women of the dredging crews who worked day and night to keep shipping channels open during the most severe low water in recent memory-and are still working. The event was organized by the St. Louis Engineer District. The message con- veyed to those crews was, "What you do matters." Guests gathered at the St. Louis District Service Base at the foot of Arsenal Street, St. Louis, where they boarded the Corps support vessel mv. Pathfinder and toured St. Louis harbor en route to the Cargill terminal in East St. Louis. Their host at the Cargill Terminal was Jeff Webb, president of Cargo Carriers and vice-chair of Waterways Council Inc., who led a strategic discussion on current and long-term impacts of the low water conditions. The Cargill terminal is used by more than 500 local farm- ers to ship their grain. "To see three dredges working in and around St. Louis was just fantastic," Webb said. "Everyone was trying to make this as good as they could in a very difficult, trying situation." |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 136 |
| 期： | 39 |
| 页码： | 3,9-10 |
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