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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Members,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 25) channel maintenance dredging on the Mississippi River Ship Channel
with the industry hopper<span class="apple-converted-space"> dredge </span>GLENN EDWARDS (Manson Construction) on March 2, 2025. The most recent crest on the Mississippi River at the Carrollton Gage was recorded at 16.67 feet on May 1, 2025 at 1800 hours.
River stages continue to recede but are expected to remain above 10 feet into June (2025).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">INDUSTRY HOPPER<span class="apple-converted-space"> DREDGE</span>(S) WORKING in the area of SOUTHWEST PASS (SWP):</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">NEWPORT:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The
NEWPORT (Manson Construction) is working on assignment upriver from the Venice Jump between Mile 13.0 Above Head of Passes (AHP) to Mile 12.0 AHP. The NEWPORT is working on the second FY 25 Early Award hopper contract (Gulf Coast Regional Hopper Contract Early
Award #2-2024). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">DODGE ISLAND:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The DODGE ISLAND (Great Lakes Dredge & Dock) is working on assignment at the Head of Passes (Mile 0) to Mile 1.0 Below Head of Passes (BHP). The hopper dredge commenced dredging
operations in SWP on April 7, 2025. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">GLENN EDWARDS:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The
hopper<span class="apple-converted-space"> dredge </span>GLENN EDWARDS is dredging on assignment from Mile 14.6 BHP to Mile 16.0 BHP. The GLENN EDWARDS is working under Southwest Pass Hopper Early Award #1-2024, the first of the two Early Award hopper<span class="apple-converted-space"> dredge
</span>contracts for Fiscal Year 2025<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(FY 25).
<b>The Bar Pilots adjusted their flocculation based high tide transit restrictions for inbound vessels with drafts of 38 feet or greater on May 7, 2025.
</b>The official Notice is attached. The flocculation event is reported to be improving some as is typical as river stages decrease, but the transit restriction/recommendation remains in effect.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">GOVERNMENT HOPPER<span class="apple-converted-space"> DREDGE(S)
</span>WORKING IN SOUTHWEST PASS (SWP):</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">WHEELER:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The
USACE hopper<span class="apple-converted-space"> dredge </span>WHEELER continues dredging in the New Orleans Harbor under Readiness Exercise #4-2025. The WHEELER is dredging the 50-foot access channel for the Nashville Avenue Wharf and is expected to depart
in June for scheduled maintenance and repairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">CUTTERHEAD<span class="apple-converted-space"> DREDGE(</span>S) WORKING IN THE NEW ORLEANS HARBOR:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The USACE advertised a bid opening for a cutterhead dredge to work on channel maintenance in the New Orleans Harbor today. The apparent low
bidder was Weeks Marine, additional details will be included in the next update.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">CUTTERHEAD<span class="apple-converted-space"> DREDGE(</span>S) WORKING IN SOUTHWEST PASS (SWP):<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">R.S. WEEKS:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The R.S. WEEKS (Weeks Marine) is currently dredging at Mile 12.75 BHP and is concentrating on the heaviest shoaling between Mile 12 BHP to Mile 13.5 BHP. The cutterhead will
work this reach first and then focus on the full assignment starting at Mile 9.0 BHP and extending to Mile 15 BHP on the western side of the Channel. All material removed will be beneficially used to create marsh along the bank line in SWP. The cutterhead
began dredging in SWP on May 3, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">MISSISSIPPI RIVER STAGES<span style="color:black"> AND FORECAST UPDATES:</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The Carrollton Gage (New Orleans) reading at 1500 hours today was 14.09 feet, with a 24-hour change of - 0.16 feet. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service Extended Streamflow Predictions (28-Day Forecast) for the Carrollton Gage issued today forecasts that stages will continue a slow extended fall to 11.0 feet on June 3 (2025).<span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The Baton Rouge Gage reading at 1200 hours today was 40.98 feet,
<span style="color:black">with a </span>24-hour change <span style="color:black">
of </span>-<span style="color:black"> </span>0<span style="color:black">.</span>55<span style="color:black"> feet.
</span>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service Extended Streamflow Predictions (28-Day Forecast) for the Baton Rouge Gage issued today forecasts that stages will continue a slow
<span style="color:black">fall to </span>27.9 feet on June 12 (2025).<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The NWS 28-Day l<span style="color:black">ong-range forecasts only include precipitation expected to fall in the next 48-hours.</span></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The 168-hour (7 Days) Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) precipitation map
<span style="color:black">below is </span>reproduced from the National Weather Service.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:white">“Forecasters at the WPC and its predecessor organizations have been making Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts since 1960.
Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts, or QPFs, depict the amount of liquid precipitation expected to fall in a defined period of time. In the case of snow or ice, QPF represents the amount of liquid that will be measured when the precipitation is melted. Precipitation
amounts can vary significantly over short distances, especially when thunderstorms occur, and for this reason QPFs issued by the WPC are defined as the expected "areal average" (on a 20 x 20 km grid) in inches.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:yellow">168-HOUR QPF FORECAST:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:yellow"><img width="800" height="561" style="width:8.3333in;height:5.8437in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01DBC5B4.D8243BC0"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:white">*The 168-hour QPF predicts heavy precipitation across a large portion of the central United States along the Mississippi
and Ohio River Basins.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">“<span style="color:black">The graph below is reproduced from NOAA’s National Weather Service website and represents an experimental product to account
for the complexity of accurately predicting long-range precipitation. These forecast projects stage levels based on expected precipitation for 2 days (top) and 16 days (bottom) and was developed within the North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) computer
model and highlights Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPF). Along with the forecasts, a shaded area is also provided to indicate uncertainty for the forecast each day in the future. These plots are experimental and not an official forecast product.</span>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:yellow">NEW ORLEANS QPF:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:yellow"><img width="751" height="1010" style="width:7.8229in;height:10.5208in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01DBC5B4.D8243BC0" alt="NORL1_67_28d_forecast_error_plot.png"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The graph below represents the Year-to-Date (2025) plotted river stages for the Carrollton Gage from January 1 to May 15 (2025)<span style="color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><img width="570" height="400" style="width:5.9375in;height:4.1666in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.png@01DBC5B4.D8243BC0" alt="Chart titled, Mississippi River at New Orleans (Carrollton) (01300) From 01/01/2025 To 05/15/2025"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The following plot shows the river stages on the Carrollton Gage from January 1, 2020 to May 15, 2025:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><img width="570" height="400" style="width:5.9375in;height:4.1666in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.png@01DBC5B4.D8243BC0" alt="Chart titled, Mississippi River at New Orleans (Carrollton) (01300) From 01/01/2020 To 05/15/2025"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Note the Carrollton Gage had not been over 15 feet since 2021 or higher than 16 feet since 2020 the last time the Bonnet Carré Spillway was operated.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Please see the attachments to support the Dredge Update.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">With You,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Zapfino;color:#0700FF">Sean</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Sean M. Duffy, Sr.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Executive Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Standing By Channel: (504) 338-3165</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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