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Sandwich Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham gave the board of selectmen some bad news about sand on Thursday night. For several years, the town has been asking the US Army Corps of Engineers to dump the sand from the Corps’ periodic dredging of the Cape Cod Canal onto Sandwich’s eroding beach. The town also… Read More
The Dare County Board of Commissioners have unanimously approved a resolution to take the first steps toward a dredging project in Avon Harbor that will result in beach nourishment for the Canadian Hole and Kite Point soundside shorelines. The Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $1.6 million in funds to dredge Avon Harbor and the adjacent channel,… Read More
Ocean County has agreed to pay the entire local cost of the latest federal beach replenishment project, providing relief for barrier island towns that were facing hefty bills for the work. “It’s great that they are going to pay the whole thing,” said Bay Head Mayor Bill Curtis, who added that mayors learned of the… Read More
The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water that affected the Mississippi River basin. Dredging operations moved nine million cubic yards of material,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks public comments on a proposed dredging operation for Galloway Sand and Gravel Company in Batesville. The proposed project will encompass five miles of the White River from mile 300.2 to 307.9, just upstream of the Highway 167 Bridge to immediately downstream of Lock and Dam No. 2, near… Read More
The updated 2023 calendar year runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, continues to be below average. January runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City was 1.1 million acre-feet, 134% of average. Runoff was above average due to warmer-than-normal temperatures in the upper basin resulting in some snowmelt runoff…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District entered into a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) with the City of Jackson, Mississippi, February 6, 2023, as part of the Environmental Infrastructure (EI) Program (Section 219) as authorized by the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1992. For the city of Jackson, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba… Read More
It’s a sign that spring is near, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will start its annual Lake Pepin ice measurements Feb. 15. Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake on the Mississippi River on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Corps takes ice measurements on Lake Pepin annually to… Read More
The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., closed to marine traffic January 16, marking the end of the Great Lakes shipping season. They will reopen March 25 and between now and then vessels in the Great Lake fleet will be undergoing their annual winter works maintenance — and so, too, will the Soo Locks…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District requests public comment on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and proposed Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed Kissimmee River Restoration Project (KRRP) Increment 1 Temporary Deviation, Osceola and Polk counties, Florida. The project non-Federal sponsor is the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Comments are… Read More
Following a summer during which shoals developed at an alarming pace in Manasquan Inlet, a dredge boat from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has arrived to clear the inlet’s channel. The dredge boat Murden, home-ported in Wilmington, N.C., was working in the inlet Monday through high winds and rolling seas. The boat was generally working on the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is preparing to request a deviation from the operating restriction at the Isabella Dam in Lake Isabella, California, to implement a plan to fill the lake up to its pre-construction volume of 568,000 acre-feet, or gross pool, when sufficient precipitation and snowpack occur. The lake has been… Read More
Crowley has been selected to be on the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) by the U.S General Services Administration (GSA), reflecting the company’s growing capability to strategically support the U.S. government and military mission-readiness around the world. With this selection, Crowley Solutions is now able to provide government clients with information technology services, management consulting, and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Blue Marsh Lake, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and the Berks County Conservation District have partnered together to restore multiple sections of degraded shoreline, improve shoreline fishing opportunities, and install a variety of in-water habitat structures throughout the next year. The first of four projects will begin… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is hiring engineers during a job fair Feb. 23, 2023, at the J. Percy Priest Lake Visitors Center. Jobs that are being offered on the spot will provide an unprecedented opportunity to work on mega construction projects like the Kentucky Lock Addition Project and Chickamauga Lock Addition… Read More