# Dredge Hurley Returns Home After Historic Season - The Waterways Journal

> The Memphis District dredge Hurley returned to port in December after dredging over 12.5 million cubic yards, the second most productive season in its history. Above-average river levels increased sediment shoaling, and the dredge will undergo winter maintenance.

- Date: 2020-01-03 · published 2020-01-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/54977-dredge-hurley-returns-home-after-historic-season-the-waterways-journal
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Heavy sediment and high water keep Lower Mississippi channel maintenance costly and draft-constrained, a modest logistics factor for barge grain movements.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: neutral

## Sources

- waterwaysjournal.net: https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2020/01/03/dredge-hurley-returns-home-after-historic-season/

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