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Low Mississippi River water hampers port work

portofcateslanding.com

Low water in the Mississippi River is delaying work on a new west Tennessee river port.  Cates Landing construction site project manager Michael Sanders says the low levels are delaying placement of rock, completion of piers at the site, dredging operations and work on the walkways, lighting, power and other site work.  

Sanders provided the Northwest Tennessee Regional Port Authority with a detailed construction update Thursday in Dyersburg.  Sanders says work is proceeding on pouring warehouse concrete, plumbing installation, and the truck scale.  But Sanders says low water could remain an issue into next year.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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