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原文传递 Living Lands & Waters Launches River Careers Classroom Barge
题名: Living Lands & Waters Launches River Careers Classroom Barge
正文语种: eng
作者: SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要: Living Lands & Waters' new educa-tional barge has a history that goes back nearly a century. The classroom, dubbed the Mississippi River Institute, is the shell of a 1930 steam-powered crane once used to lift wicket dams on the Ohio River. ARTCO's Clinton, Iowa, shipyard cut the shell off at its base and then placed it onto a barge constructed a few years ago at Yager Marine in Owensboro, Ky., that was originally an excavator barge. "I wanted a working structure, something that had a story of its own," said Chad Pregracke, founder of Living Lands & Waters, a non-profit river cleanup organization established in 1998. "This thing just fit."
出版年: 2023
期刊名称: The Waterways Jouranl
卷: 137
期: 36
页码: 3,8-9
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