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  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 19-89 NM 222 - Tow Width and Length Restrictions Lifted

    MKARNS - NM 222 - Mariners are advised that dredging has been completed at NM 222, and the width and length tow restrictions listed in Navigation Notice SWL 19-87 are no longer in effect. No passing is still advised when transiting NM 221 – NM 223, and mariners should continue running the center line between the buoys in their current positions. Mariners are also reminded to use caution in this area.

  • Corps to again extend the closure of Okay Landing

    ASHDOWN, Ark. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Millwood Tri-Lakes Project Office is extending the closure of the Okay Landing Recreation Area while repairs to Okay Levee are being made.

  • Millwood Lake Master Plan revisions require temporary halt to shoreline management requests

    ASHDOWN, Ark. -- The Army Corps of Engineers’ Millwood Lake Project Office will suspend shoreline activity requests beginning Jan. 1, 2020 to establish a baseline of the lake for officials to use while revising its 45-year-old master plan and 7-year-old shoreline management plan.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 19-88 Locks 1, 2, 9 & 13 Closures

    MKARNS - The locks shown below will be closed to navigation traffic 24 hours daily for the dates specified.

  • Corps lifts small craft advisory for Arkansas River

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Army Corps of Engineers has lifted the small craft advisory for the Arkansas River. Small-craft advisories are issued when flows reach 70,000 cubic feet per second. While flows have receded, Corps officials urge boaters to always use caution when on the river.

  • Boundary line maintenance crews approaching the cities of Bull Shoals and Lakeview

    MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. – The Army Corps of Engineers, Mountain Home Project Office advises landowners adjacent to public lands on Bull Shoals Lake that maintenance crews will soon be conducting boundary line maintenance within the city limits of Bull Shoals and Lakeview, Arkansas.

  • Temporary full road closure of Highway 177 Bridge across Norfork Dam

    MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. –The Army Corps of Engineers will temporarily close both lanes of the Highway 177 Bridge over Norfork Dam from 8 a.m. Dec. 16 until 5 p.m. Dec. 18. Both lanes will close to allow for the installation of equipment used to maintain the dam’s sluice gates.

  • Corps issues small craft advisory for Arkansas River

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Army Corps of Engineers issued a small craft advisory for the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System in Arkansas. Rainfall over the weekend caused flows to rise.

  • Corps schedules boundary line maintenance on Greers Ferry Lake

    HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. – The Army Corps of Engineers, Greers Ferry Lake Project Office advises landowners adjacent to public lands on Greers Ferry Lake that contract maintenance crews will be conducting boundary line maintenance along a 92-mile section of government boundary.

  • Corps lifts small craft advisory

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Army Corps of Engineers has lifted the small craft advisory for the Arkansas River. Advisories are issued when flows reach 70,000 cubic feet per second. Even though flows have receded below that threshold, Corps officials urge boaters to always use caution when on the river.