Video: New Channel Established on Atchafalaya River

Posted by Eric Haun October 17, 2014

USCG photo

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) helped establish Crewboat Cut as a new federal channel in the Atchafalaya River near Morgan City, Wednesday.

The new waterway is intended to be safer for mariners, will shorten travel time and save millions of dollars in annual dredging costs.

Coast Guardsmen with Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Morgan City and Coast Guard Cutter Axe constructed new channel markers in the waterway.

A video discussing the new channel is available here: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/367318/coast-guard-helps-establish-new-waterway#.VEEsF2f1bgZ.