Navigation Information

Welcome, Menu, Questions and Comments

Welcome

Welcome to OMNI Reports portion of the NIC, the Navigation Information Connection for the Upper Mississippi River System administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers.  The Upper Mississippi River System includes Federal commercial navigation projects above the Mississippi River’s confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.  These Federal commercial navigation projects are the Upper Mississippi River, Kaskaskia River, Illinois Waterway, Black River, St. Croix River and the Minnesota River. These Federal navigation projects are projects authorized by the US Congress for the purpose of providing transportation systems for barges to move commodities.  Typically their makeup includes a maintained 9-foot deep channel and a series of locks and dams.  Navigation lights, signage and buoys are used to identify the channel.

NIC endeavors to provide useful information primarily to users of the projects, but also to those having a general interest in the Upper Mississippi River System.  On NIC you will find information pertaining to tow boats in the system, channel and lock conditions, river stages, maps, rules and regulations, water safety, navigation notices, water safety, pictures, videos, etc.  The site also provides information to contact the appropriate person to ask questions or request further information

Other Rivers included in Selective OMNI Reports: Arkansas, Chicago River, Clinch, Cumberland, Green/Barren, Kanawha, Monongahela, Ohio, Tennessee.

Objective: The Navigation Information Center (NIC) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers administered web site that provides information related to the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). The UMRS includes the Federal navigation projects for the Minnesota River, St. Croix River, Black River, Illinois Waterway, Kaskaskia River and the Upper Mississippi River (above the confluence of the Ohio River at Cairo, IL). The intent of NIC is to provide easily accessible information on the operation, condition and use of the UMRS. This information is intended for both commercial and recreational users of the navigation projects, in addition to providing navigation project information to the general public.

Menu
(Conditions, Vsl Locations/Queue/Lckgs, Vsl Performance, Reports, Reports Dir, Web Service, NIC)
Menu - Navigation Conditions (Lock & River)

Lock Conditions - A report of the conditions at the each of the locks on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Also provides links to other sites. These conditions include: river miles, date and time of entry, gage/elevation and change, dam condition, weather information (including air and water temperatures, and precipation). Number of vessels waiting above and below the in queue and locking status by direction. Average Delay is for the last 24 hrs from the run of the report. Reports are run at 6 am and every two hours otherwise at 40 past the hour.

Dynamic Lock Conditions reports retrieve from the database.

Upper Mississippi River System
Rivers Updated
Daily
Every 2 Hours
Mississippi, Illinois, & Chicago
Mississippi
 
 
Illinois & Chicago

Static Lock Conditions, flat files sitting on the web server generated 40 past the hour every 2 hrs:

Upper Mississippi River System
Rivers Updated
Daily
Every 2 Hours
Mississippi, Illinois, & Chicago
Mississippi
    
Illinois & Chicago

Other Resources:
  New Orleans Locks' Statuses Great Lakes & Ohio River Navigation Info


The charts indicate important navigation features of special interest to boaters. Features shown on the charts include navigable sloughs, open channel areas, hazardous areas, historical features, small boat harbors, wildlife sanctuaries, bridge clearances, locks and dams, and other facilities.

Available Upper Mississippi River System Navigation Charts/Maps
Other Corps of Engineers Navigation Charts
Purchasing Navigation Charts (Paper copies and CD may be procured from):

Navigation Notices - Notice to Shippers, Mariners indicating any type of interruptions on the rivers/waterways.

Division Bulletins - Notice to Shippers, Mariners of the regulations that apply on the rivers/waterways.

Other Resources:
  ITCS Memos (RIBB) Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners

Aerial Photos - Aerial photographs of selected locations on the rivers/waterways.

Menu - Links

Links - Other web sites of interest to Navigation.

A listing of vessel locations, where the boat is located in the last 15 days, on the river/waterway. A listing of queued vessels at locks, boats waiting to lock or locking, on the river/waterway.

Dynamic Vessel Locations/Queued/Lockages reports, real time live as the lock personnel enters the data at the lock. Live, Completed Vessel Lockages by category for the past 2 days (2 months for Lock Stoppages) can be found here.

Static Vessel Locations/Queued reports, run at 5 and 25 after the hour seeing what the lock personnel has entered.

Vessel Performance - A statistical analysis comparing a vessel to other vessel averages for locking that day for the same type of characterisitics (cuts, cargo). Shown for a user's entered selection: year, district, river, minimum number of lockages, number of cuts, and with or without cargo.

Menu - Reports

Reports - A location to generate a variety of reports. New reports will be added to this in the future.

Static - RPT 11 - Daily Traffic - Chain of Rocks (MI27) Today and LaGrange (IL08) - Today
Chain of Rocks (MI27) - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
LaGrange (IL08) - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Report Directory - A location to view the reports that have been generated previously. These generated reports are removed on a regularly basis.

Menu - Web Service

Web Service - OMNI data Web Service Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a service providing the public, government agencies, and commercial enterprises with data from the OMNI database.

 

Questions and Comments
Point of Contacts (POCs)
Mississippi River POC
William.T.Gretten@usace.army.mil
(309) 794-4512		 Illinois Waterway POC
Rick.D.Granados@usace.army.mil
(309) 676-4601

Definitions

  ACE-IT OMNI Programming POC
Tamara.S.Loose@usace.army.mil
(309) 794-5550
Locks and Dams
Phone Numbers		 General Corps POC
CEMVR-CC@.usace.army.mil
(309) 794-4200		 Website Technical POC
WebManager@usace.army.mil

External Link Disclaimer

Solely for ease of reference to related data, this site contains hyperlinks to a number of external web sites and/or information created and maintained by other public or private entities. The US Army Corps of Engineers neither controls nor guarantees the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any external sites or information, and the agency expressly reserves sole discretion to establish or remove external links from the server at any time. Further, the inclusion of links to particular external sites is not intended to reflect their importance or to endorse any views expressed, products or services offered on those sites, or the organizations sponsoring the sites.

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