USACE wraps up Stewart Towhead Dikes Project

The USACE Memphis District has just announced another big win – safely delivering a very important Mississippi River dike repair project on time and within budget.

This time it’s the completion of the Stewart Towhead Dikes Project by their Project Delivery Team led by Project Manager Zach Cook and Non-Federal Project Partner – the commercial towing industry represented by the Lower Mississippi River Committee.

The project work placed approximately 125,000 tons of Graded Stone A to extend one existing stone dike and construct one new trail dike.

The dikes improve the navigation channel in this reach of the Mississippi River, which has in recent years, experienced a shoal during low water conditions, said USACE.

The work on this $4.3M project was funded by the Disaster Relief Supplemental Act of 2022.