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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Members,
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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 recent crest on the Mississippi River at the Carrollton Gage was recorded at 16.67 feet on May 1, 2025 at 1800 hours.
<b>River stages continue to recede but are expected to remain above 10 feet until late June (2025).
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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">DUSTPAN DREDGES(S) WORKING ON THE CROSSINGS ABOVE NEW ORLEANS:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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">HURLEY:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> The USACE dustpan dredge HURLEY commenced dredging
at Baton Rouge Front Crossing (Mile 231.0 Above Head of Passes [AHP]) on May 21, 2025.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">WALLACE McGEORGE:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The industry dustpan dredge WALLACE McGEORGE (Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel) commenced dredging at Alhambra Crossing (Mile 190.5 AHP) on May 22, 2025.
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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">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>
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<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 dredging on assignment from Mile 13.0 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).
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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 from Mile 2.0 AHP to Mile 1.0 AHP. The hopper dredge commenced dredging operations in SWP on April 7, 2025.
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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 11.5 Below Head of Passes (BHP) to Mile 12.0 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 flocculation based high tide transit restrictions for inbound vessels with drafts of 38 feet or greater as adjusted on May 7, 2025 remains in effect.
</b>The official Notice is attached.<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">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 completed dredging under Readiness Exercise #4-2025 on May 26, 2025. The WHEELER is tentatively scheduled to perform Readiness Exercise #5-2025 from June 9 to June 20 (2025) in SWP.
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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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">CAPTAIN FRANK:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The USACE is processing the award of the cutterhead dredge contact for channel maintenance in the New Orleans Harbor to Weeks Marine. The CAPTAIN FRANK is expected to start work
under this contract by this weekend. <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 SOUTHWEST PASS (SWP):<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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">R.S. WEEKS:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The cutterhead dredge R.S. WEEKS (Weeks Marine) is currently dredging at Mile 13.9 BHP and is concentrating on the heaviest shoaling in the assignment from Mile 12.0 BHP to Mile
15.0 BHP. The dredge assignment is being revised to extend below Mile 15.0 BHP. 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 0900 hours today was 12.12 feet, with a 24-hour change of - 0.31 feet.
<span style="color:black">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>continue<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">a
slow rise to 11.8 feet on June 4 </span>and remain steady a few days <span style="color:black">
before resuming a slow fall to</span> <span class="apple-converted-space">9.9 </span>
<span style="color:black">feet on June </span>24<span style="color:black"> (2025).</span><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 Baton Rouge Gage reading at 0900 hours today was 33.34 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>10<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 slowly rise to 33.9 feet on June 2 and to then resume
an extended <span style="color:black">fall to </span>27.7 feet on June 24 (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_3" src="cid:image001.gif@01DBCEF9.7700EED0"></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 Southeastern United States along the lower
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>
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<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@01DBCEF9.7700EED0" 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 27 (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_1" src="cid:image003.png@01DBCEF9.7700EED0" alt="Chart titled, Mississippi River at New Orleans (Carrollton) (01300) From 01/01/2025 To 05/27/2025"></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"><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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<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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