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1. Omaha area News, Information and Current Events on and off our Missouri River!
www.omahariverfront.com/articl - [Cached]Published on: 10/16/2002 Last Visited: 1/23/2008
Originally assigned to the Memphis District and transferred to St. Louis in 1979, the 68 year-old repowered POTTER is the oldest dredge in the Corp's fleet (a year ahead of her
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Charles Lewis Potter, a Memphis District Engineer from 1900 to 1903 and then President of the Mississippi River Commission from 1920 to 1928, she was originally a steam-powered paddlewheeler, was built for the once-considerable sum of $520,000 and launched in 1932. She helped keep the Mississippi River open to navigation for almost 70 years.
In 2001 the POTTER underwent a $20 million repowering project by the district and the Corps' Marine Design Center in Philadelphia together with subcontractor Halter Marine, Inc., of Gulfport, Mississippi. On October 31, 2001, she departed Halter Marine's New Orleans shipyard with the same overall profile (sans smokestacks) and capabilities, but with an all-new stern and a diesel-electric power plant.
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After working all night, early Friday morning on October 10, the dredge POTTER completed had completed 8 passes at 35 feet wide.
