USACE helps restore navigation channels after Hurricane Milton
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrographic Survey Boat -52 from the Jacksonville District escorts the Golden State into the Tampa Harbor. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrographic Survey Boat teams surveyed the Tampa Harbor and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway which assisted the Coast Guard with quickly restoring navigation channels in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton to facilitate the arrival of commercial fuel and shipping vessels in the Tampa Harbor. Two boat teams from the Jacksonville District Survey Boats 52 and El Morro worked with the U.S. Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, waterway users, and port authorities following Gulf Coast Hurricane Protocol survey and scanned the waterways.