Today RIAC met with the Corps of Engineers to review the model study results that would modify outdraft conditions at Lock and Damn 24 on the Upper Miss. RIAC was pleased with the results and encouraged the Corps to proceed with plans to install these underwater weirs next spring. The Corps had previously made plans to install a protection cell just above the short bullnose to prevent tows from potentially damaging the gates. As a result of todays meeting, the Corps has agreed to wait and see what the new weirs results will be before going any further with plans for a new cell.

RIAC also met with a Chesley Island committee today who is seeking a permit for fleeting at approxamate river mile 160 UMR. RIAC had recently approaved fleeting in this area with certain conditions. The Chesley Island group did not agree with RIAC's recommendations and asked to meet with a full RIAC group. After listening to the committees presentation this morning, the RIAC group found no new information that would convince them to change their minds.

RIAC will be meeting with the Corps next week to discuss locking procedures at Lock 27 during next months closure of the big chamber.

RIAC will be meeting with Roger Weibusch next week to review plans for a new St. Louis bridge. This new bridge will cross the Mississippi river just north of the Martin Luther King bridge.

RIAC will be planning a trip to Meradosia Illinois next week to look at a recreational boat ramp planned for that area. RIAC feels that this proposed ramp may impede navigation and create a unsafe condition.

LOMRC will be attending a meeting in New Orleans this week to discuss the development of a new Crisis Action Plan for that area similar to the St. Louis Crisis Action Plan.