Since the early 20th century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River annually to keep the channel open for boats, ships and barges. Each year, the Corps removes about ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

GREEN BAY — Take a good long look at that sand barge working near the Walnut Street Bridge this week. After this summer, you may never see another out there. The barge is depositing sand over ...

ABACO residents claim a “drifting” sand barge off Leisure Lee is threatening reefs and coastlines at the height of hurricane season — but acting Port Controller Senior Commander Berne Wright says the ...

RED WING — Barging silica sand in Red Wing and Winona has been discussed for weeks, but the cities have taken divergent paths recently. Before a standing-room only crowd of about 100 people on Monday, ...

Sand. It's a simple, but precious commodity in a rapidly-growing region like Middle Tennessee. When construction companies can't get enough of it, everything slows down — from road work to ...

In Cambodia, sand mining has become a popular industry to support concrete production. The influx of sand is threatening the homes of thousands who live along the country's water ways. The collateral ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A barge being used to create an artificial reef to mark a South Florida city from the air got stuck in the sand, stalling the project. Deerfield Beach spokeswoman Rebecca ...

About 150 feet of a degraded dock in Chalmette, Louisiana, collapsed into the water in 2023 after a barge contact, but it was unlikely to have sustained the force of a typical docking anyway, a ...

A new crop of factories requires roads, and that means sand. To keep up, the country is importing from Cambodia on a massive scale. When President Donald Trump launched his first trade war with ...