MEMPHIS, Tenn.- The Coast Guard is scheduled to commission its newest station, Coast Guard Station Memphis, during a ceremony at the FedEx Event Center in Cordova, Tenn., on Aug. 10. The station's area of responsibility ranges from mile marker 720 to mile marker 750 on the Mississippi River, numerous lakes in Arkansas, and is deployable to the Gulf of Mexico for hurricane flood response. The station is equipped with two 29-foot small response boats and three shallow-water response boats. CGS Memphis is the second of five new CG stations to be commissioned in the Coast Guard 8th District’s Western Rivers Sectors. (Source: Coast Guard 08/09/21)
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