An Army Corps of Engineers team was installing new articulated concrete mat material on the east bank of the Mississippi River at the New Orleans-Jefferson Parish border on Monday (Aug. 25).

The grass-reinforced mat system has a capacity of between 1 foot and 4 feet per second, Park said, while the concrete blocks have the ability of withstanding more than 4 feet per second.

The Army Corps of Engineers website explains: The articulated concrete mattress (mat) arrives on location by barge from one of the mat-casting fields along the river in Tennessee, Arkansas ...

The project includes turf reinforcement mats, articulated concrete blocks, rip rap, fish habitat structures, excavation, landscaping and reconfiguration, sediment booms, aesthetic improvements and ...

The PaveDrain system are porous blocks that are structured to become a Permeable Articulating Concrete Block/Mat (P-ACB/M). Each block is shaped with an arch in the middle to increase stormwater ...

Vicksburg, Ms... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Vicksburg District Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) is currently working on the Mississippi River near Blackhawk, Louisiana, on river mile 328. Thus far ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $2,123,000 to RLB Contracting Inc, a small business, for placement of rip rap and articulating concrete ...