• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, met with senior leadership of the Jacksonville Port Authority to discuss the Mile Point project Wednesday. Current tidal conditions at the Mile Point section of the shipping lanes that serve Jacksonville ports only allow cargo ships to call on the ports for about eight hours a day. Reconfiguring the section of the shipping lanes would increase that time and draft plans met with favorable review from the Army Corps. “We believe that we have developed a plan that has both a favorable cost benefit analysis and favorable environmental assessment,” said Steve Ross, senior project manager for the local Army Corps. A public workshop will be scheduled shortly after the document is released to the public, slated to be within two months.
