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Officials at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam are closing dam crossings to the public from Sept. 12 to Sept. 25 in order to perform spillway maintenance. Normal crossing hours are once an hour, on the half-hour, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Public dam crossings are also available at Lower Granite Lock… Read More
Mariners are advised that Montgomery Point Lock and Dam (NM 0.5) is currently closed to all navigation traffic. Due to falling river elevations, the crest gates have been raised and the navigation pass is closed. Due to problems with the operation of the lock miter gates, vessels are not able to pass through the lock… Read More
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today announced $7.7 million in new grants using funding from the Infrastructure Law to support ongoing natural infrastructure projects in seven states. $310,300 in federal funding was earmarked for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to develop final engineering design… Read More
Rutgers has been awarded $12.6 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an oyster-based shoreline ecosystem to help protect coastlines from storm damage, flooding and erosion. The Rutgers-led project, “Reefense: A Mosaic Oyster Habitat (MOH) for Coastal Defense,” will focus on oyster reefs in the Gulf Coast and combine novel cements and concretes… Read More
The atmospheric rivers washed more than 440,000 cubic metres of sediment into the Vedder River and Vedder Canal near Chilliwack last fall. “This was extraordinary, as the long-term sediment deposit rate has declined in the past decade to under 40,000 cubic metres per year,” according to City of Chilliwack notice that parts of the Vedder… Read More
Decades after neighbors first broached the subject, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has picked a company to dredge debris that’s choking stretches of Jacksonville’s Fishweir Creek. Jacksonville-based Underwater Mechanix Services LLC was awarded an $8.2 million contract to carry out an aquatic ecosystem restoration that hinges on removing sediment that has settled in the creek for at least a half-century…. Read More
Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Great Lakes Districts — Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago — recently released a technical report which provides guidance for evaluating the environmental suitability of dredged material in the Great Lakes region. The “Environmental Evaluation and… Read More
A small lake that will be built south of Gretna is a big deal, state and local officials say. The dam and park is the first project in the four-state region of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas to be selected for final review and funding in a new competitive grant program through the Federal Emergency… Read More
The Port of Long Beach has been given the next necessary approval for a new project to deepen its waterways. On 6 July, Assistant Secretary of the Army at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Michael L. Connor issued a Record of Decision (ROD) on the Port’s Deep Draft Navigation Feasibility Study and Channel Deepening… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded a contract Aug. 26, 2022, to execute an aquatic ecosystem restoration project at Big Fishweir Creek. Big Fishweir Creek is an urban tributary of the St. Johns River, running approximately four miles south of downtown Jacksonville. It enters the St. Johns River, a designated American Heritage River,… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Blansett was awarded the Silver De Fleury Medal at Division Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Aug. 22nd, 2022. The medal was presented by outgoing division commander Brig. Gen. Jason Kelly who stated, “The Silver De Fleury is a really big deal. There are… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a drop-in public workshop from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. September 13 at the Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville, 211 SE Walton Blvd., Bentonville, Arkansas. Information will be available at the workshop regarding potentially impacted properties and the newly proposed willing sellers only acquisition alternative. All interested persons are invited… Read More
The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will close some of its facilities at Wright Patman Lake beginning Sept. 2 to conduct routine maintenance operations. “Dewatering is necessary to conduct scheduled routine maintenance of the stilling basin,” said Emmitt Attaway, the Piney Woods Region’s Environmental Stewardship Business Line Manager. According to Attaway, the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District emergency operations center (EOC) activated at Level 2, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m., due to flooding on the Pearl River in the Jackson, Mississippi, area. Level 2, or Emergency Watch, means personnel will monitor conditions from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The District is providing… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is employing emergency authority to remove remaining portions of Green River Lock and Dam 6, near Brownsville, Kentucky, which is obstructing Green River. Currently, the remaining portions of Green River Dam 6 are obstructing a navigable waterway and presenting a safety hazard to members of the public… Read More