NOTICE TO NAVIGATION INTERESTS
DATE: 11/02/2022 NOTICE NUMBER: 201522



POC:
For further information, please contact Chad Brumelow at the BWT/ Alabama-Coosa Project Management Office (CESAM-OP-BA) at (205) 752-3571 LOCAL NUMBER: 22-67
WATERWAY: BLACKWARRIOR/TOMBIGBEE RIVERS
EFFECTIVE: 10/09/2022 00:00 thru UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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TOMBIGBEE WATERWAY, ALABAMA

RIVER MILE 95.5 - ST. ELMO BAR REOPENED

DREDGE WORK AT RIVER MILE 78, SUNFLOWER BAR

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

 

 

October 9, 2022

 

BUILDING STRONG ®

 

TECHNICAL SUPPORT BRANCH NAVIGATION BULLETIN NO. 22-70 NOTICE TO NAVIGATION INTERESTS:

TOMBIGBEE WATERWAY, ALABAMA

 

 RIVER MILE 95.5 - ST. ELMO BAR REOPENED

 

DREDGE WORK AT RIVER MILE 78, SUNFLOWER BAR

 

Reference Navigation Bulletin No. 22-67

 

Notice is given to mariners that shoaling on the Tombigbee Waterway at mile 95.5, St. Elmo Bar, has been cleared and the channel has reopened for traffic.  

 

Inland Dredging Co.’s dredge AMERICA will begin mobilizing to Sunflower Bar, river mile 78, for maintenance dredging operations. The dredge will utilize floating and submerged pipeline, disposing of material in an upland disposal area adjacent to the dredge plant. The dredge will work 24 hours per day and operations are expected to last approximately 7 days. The dredge will monitor VHF Channels 13 and 16.

 

For further information, please contact Chad Brumelow at the BWT/ Alabama-Coosa Project Management Office (CESAM-OP-BA) at (205) 752-3571.

 

 

 

 

ASHLEY N. KLEINSCHRODT

Chief, Navigation Section

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ASHLEY N. KLEINSCHRODT
Chief, Navigation Section