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The United States Army Corps of Engineers project aiming to protect New York City against devastating storm surge is inching toward a final plan that would jumpstart a multi-billion dollar effort to bolster defenses against climate change. The U.S. Army Corps “NY-NJ Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study” (HATS) report published last year… Read More
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has restored some of the bends in Southeast Georgia’s Satilla River. Agency officials celebrated the closing of two cuts that were made in the river nearly a century ago to make it faster to ship timber. The cuts were filled in with more than 10,000 tons of rock, called rip-rap,… Read More
For more than 140 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Galveston District has tackled massive projects to provide safety and stability along a coastline stretching from Louisiana to Mexico. The scope of its efforts runs nearly as long as its history, including flood risk mitigation, ecosystem restoration, shoreline protection, navigation, military construction and emergency… Read More
McDermott has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Shell Trinidad and Tobago for the Manatee gas development project. Under the contract, McDermott will provide FEED services for a wellhead platform, export pipeline system, shore approach, midstream pipeline and onshore control room. Engineering and execution planning efforts will be led by McDermott’s team… Read More
Ocean Shipholdings has won a potential $292.7 million contract to manage transportation auxiliary general ocean surveillance and missile range instrumentation vessels for the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command. The company will operate and maintain five T-AGOS and two T-AGM units used to monitor missile launches and back commanders’ anti-submarine warfare mission in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for the Tower-Breitung municipal water treatment plant improvement project in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The project, located in the Tower-Breitung communities, would improve the filtration capabilities of the existing municipal water treatment plant and provide safer… Read More
Crews have almost finished putting approximately 1-million cubic yards of sand along Bald Head Island’s South Beach as part of the Wilmington Harbor shipping channel maintenance. Funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this effort is to keep the shipping lane at a depth of 42 feet at mean low water. The side benefit… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, is accepting public comments on its draft memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the mitigation of two archaeological sites in the municipalities of Dorado and Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, as part of the Río de La Plata Flood Control Project. The project aims to address the frequent… Read More
Call it Part 2 of a project that will allow boats to float between Round Lake and Little Long Lake in Kendallville. Noble County is already in the process of installing a connector culvert under Riley Road to link the two lakes north of Kendallville together. Now the county drainage board will dredge the Round… Read More
NORTH EAST — The use of a $2.1 million grant awarded to Cecil County by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Waterway Improvement was passed last week by the Cecil County Council allowing for the engineering, inspection and construction of the Stoney Run Dredge Material Placement (DMP) site to begin. The DMP site is critical to the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun soliciting public comments for a maintenance dredging project along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, a 165-mile stretch from the mouth of the Anclote River in Tarpon Springs to the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River in Cape Coral. Project manager Eduardo Marin and biologist Katie Lebow made several presentations during a virtual event… Read More
Weeks Marine installed the subline on March 21, 2023 and is planning to begin work in Duck on April 10. They will be moving equipment after next week but will not be moving on the beach over Easter weekend. Weeks Marine expects that they will be able to complete nourishment and have all equipment removed… Read More
(The Delaware Congressional Delegation announced $25 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be used for renourishment projects for Delaware’s bay beaches. “I’ve long worked to provide Delaware with the resources needed to restore and maintain our bay beaches,” said Sen. Tom Carper, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “Beach nourishment protects… Read More
Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District leaders met with community members, military partners, educators and local elected leaders March 7 at Bob Hope Patriotic Hall in downtown LA for the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion Los Angeles’ Community Partners Meeting. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Beeman, LA District deputy commander, joined Funke Ojuri, the chief… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is in the process of updating the Shoreline Management Plan for Cecil M. Harden Lake located in Rockville, Indiana. The Cecil M. Harden Shoreline Management Plan is being updated due to USACE assuming sole responsibility of the program. The purpose of the USACE Shoreline Management Program is… Read More