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March 1, 2021 By David Murray The Kansas City Engineer District is taking multiple actions to repair and mitigate damage done to river structures on the Missouri River from high water over the last several years, including major flooding in 2019. Crews have been repairing damaged structures all winter, the district said, but work directly on the river has slowed recently due to dangerous floating ice. Even though river repairs have slowed, teams across the Kansas City District continue planning, engineering and diagnostic work in preparation for major repair work that will start this spring. Physical buoys are pulled from the Missouri River at the end of the navigation season, usually in December, and are added again when the navigation season begins, according to river surveys and flow support levels, said Eric Kvistad, the aids to navigation officer at Sector Upper Mississippi River. ....
February 19, 2021 By Waterways Journal The Coast Guard’s buoy tender fleet is responsible for maintaining more than 28,200 marine aids throughout 12,000 miles of inland waterways, through which 630 million tons of cargo move annually. The current inland tender fleet consists of 35 tenders that support the service’s aids to navigation (ATON) mission in federal inland waterways. Half of these (17) belong to the Eighth Coast Guard District. A buoy tender is stationed in Dubuque, Iowa; Keokuk, Iowa; Peoria, Ill.; and two in St. Louis, Mo. (one of which, the Sangamon, will be shifted from Omaha, Neb., back to St. Louis this summer, according to the Coast Guard). ....