Industrial Canal lock New Orleans

[Steve]

* I just read in the New Orleans paper that the Industrial Canal Lock used to exit the Mississippi R. though* *N. O.**eastbound will be close for repairs for 60 days. In their wisdom they do not give a start date for the work,*if*I am able to find out I will post that. Any one transiting New Orleans in the next*few of months should check on the status of the Lock. There is a route that will be used, it calls for traveling down river to Baptiste Collette Bayou near Venice using the bayou to get into *Chandeleur Island Sound and Mississippi Sound. Of course Westbound will be the same route but in reverse up to Algiers or Harvey ICW*locks on the West Bank.* Another option would be to go around south the*of mouth of the river.
Steve Willett
Camano 31
Thibodaux, Louisiana

 

[Keith]

Keep checking the USCG's local notice to mariners: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/d8gm/
Nothing in there about the lock closure yet, so I assume it's not imminent... they usually give warnings pretty far ahead for that type of stuff.

 

[Keith]

This just in:
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US army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District has a notice on their site
that the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock will be closed on a daily basis
7 days a week* from 0600 to 1800 for dolphin work. Effective period is
February 11th through March 2nd.

Ted Stehle
Cruising & News Editor
Waterway Guide
www.waterwayguide.com
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Boy, you'd think the USCG would put that in the LNM, don't you????
No web link for the corps of engineers yet.

 

[Steve]

According to the Corps of Engineers the 60 day closure for repairs to the Industrial Canal Lock will start August 1, 2008
Steve Willett
Camano 31
Thibodaux, Louisiana