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re: Lower Mississippi River to be dredged to 50 feet. (not a river pilot thread)
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:05 pm to wheelr
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:05 pm to wheelr
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Why is it a new project? Couldn't they just start going deeper during their routine operations?
Current agreement for maintenance dredging is for 45ft at no cost to the non-federal sponsor. Going to 50ft requires a percentage to be paid for by the State of Louisiana. I believe eve the Soy Transportation Board in Iowa kicked in money as well to get to the 50ft depth.
This is huge ..... likely to trigger some bigger announcements of investment in the State.
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Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:20 pm to Shamwow
Also there is a lot of oil/gas infrastructure that crosses the river. Most of the older lines were just laid on bottom or just below the channel bottom. Some of these pipelines will need to be replaced with HDDs and removed before they could dredge those areas to 50-ft.
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