An Army Corps of Engineers team was installing new articulated concrete mat material on the east bank of the Mississippi River at the New Orleans-Jefferson Parish border on Monday (Aug. 25). The team ...

Every fall, during low-water time on the Mississippi River, a crew of about 300 men and women turns out to resume one of the longest-running and most important construction projects of the U.S. Army ...

Vicksburg, Ms... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Vicksburg District Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) is currently working on the Mississippi River near Blackhawk, Louisiana, on river mile 328. Thus far this ...

Vicksburg, Ms... The Vicksburg District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) is currently working on the Mississippi River near Mayersville, Mississippi on river mile 495. Thus far ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Mat Sinking Unit is laying articulated concrete mattress squares to protect submerged riverbanks in more than 30 areas along the Mississippi River.The Corps said the ...

NATCHEZ, Mississippi --For thousands of years, the Mississippi River went wherever whim or Mother Nature dictated -- flooding lowlands during high-water times, changing its course, shifting channels, ...

For as much as we rely on the Mississippi River for trade, transportation, and agricultural irrigation, the world’s third-largest tributary system has only recently been tamed. One multiple occasions, ...

VICKSBURG — The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Vicksburg District’s Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) is currently working within the Corps’ Memphis District boundaries laying articulated concrete mats ...