Another dredging season kicks off on the Mississippi River

Yesterday morning the Military Corps Dredge Jadwin and 50 crewmembers departed the Vicksburg Harbor for the annual dredging season on the Mississippi River.

District Commander Col. Robert Hilliard, Deputy District Engineer and Chief of Packages and Undertaking Administration Patricia Hemphill visited with the a number of the crew, Captain Chuck Ashley, Dredging Unit Chief Paul Richards, and Navigation Part Chief Andy Corridor earlier than the morning’s departure.

They’d a fast breakfast with dialogue of the upcoming season and the numerous challenges of engaged on the Mississippi River.

The dredge Jadwin season sometimes begins as quickly because the spring water rise is over, in April or Could, and ends a while in November. Within the off season, the vessel undergoes vital repairs and upkeep. Final yr, the vessel eliminated over 6 million cubic yards of sediment from the Mississippi River.

The Jadwin, constructed on the Marietta Manufacturing Firm, in Level Nice, West Virginia, is one in all 4 dustpan dredges at present working in the US. The Jadwin, Potter, and Hurley, belong to the Corps whereas the fourth dredge is owned and operated by a personal contractor.

She was launched on 30 October 1933, and named for Lt. Basic Edgar Jadwin, chief of engineers on the time of the disastrous 1927 flood. The vessel was transformed from steam to diesel electrical in 1985 and the pilot home, galley and crew quarters had been reworked in 2007.