Summary The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District is soliciting proposals for maintenance dredging services at New Pass federal navigation channel in Sarasota County, Florida. The project requires dredging beach-compatible sand from the navigation channel and placing it on the Lido Key beach placement area, located approximately 0.5 to 2.5 miles south of New… Read More
As the local and national press was focused on the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, August 15 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the meeting drowned out a big announcement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District – based at JBER — relating to the Port… Read More
Raleigh — Efforts to resolve the critical channel maintenance issues at the Port of Morehead City reached a major milestone when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for maintenance dredging. The contract, awarded last week, is worth approximately $7.9 million and was awarded to Marinex Construction Company of North Charleston, SC. The contract… Read More
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Northwestern Division – Seattle District (NWS) is hosting a Virtual Industry Day on 27 AUGUST 2025 to provide additional information and gain feedback from industry on the upcoming Willapa Harbor Maintenance Dredging project in Willapa Harbor, Washington. The Government is seeking qualified, experienced sources capable of performing… Read More
Maintenance dredging of the Quillayute River’s inner and outer navigation channels situated on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, will begin Sept. 1, making it safer for local boaters to navigate. Dredging operations, which will run continuously, 24/7 and are scheduled to conclude no later than Feb. 28, 2026. To maintain authorized depths in the navigation… Read More
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District awarded a construction contract for the first portion of the Port of Nome Modification Project in Nome, Alaska. Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. of Vancouver, Washington, will construct Phase 1A of the Port of Nome Modification project. Funded by the Infrastructure Investment and… Read More
Maj. Steven LaFave, acting district commander; Randy Bowker, director of programs and project management; and James Sauceda, chief of the Engineering Division, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Barrow Coastal Erosion Project in the community of Utqiagvik on Aug. 11. They joined representatives of the North Slope Borough and the contractor to celebrate the… Read More
CINCINNATI — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD) welcomed its new commander, Col. Daniel J. Herlihy, during a Change of Command ceremony today at the John W. Peck Federal Building in Cincinnati. Col. Herlihy assumes command from Maj. Gen. Mark C. Quander, who has led the division since… Read More
The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners approved a contract with Pacific Civil & Infrastructure Inc. at its Aug. 11 meeting for the Point No Point phase restoration and repair project, following significant damage that occurred to the area following a king tide event in December of 2022. During the king tide, tidal waters overtopped the… Read More
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Philadelphia District announced it awarded a $9.6 million contract to Cottrell Contracting Corporation of Chesapeake, Va. to conduct dredging of the Lewes & Rehoboth Canal in Sussex County, Delaware. The contract calls for dredging approximately 90,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Lewes & Rehoboth Canal…. Read More
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently awarded nearly $1.4 million of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to support five projects in northern Wisconsin within the Lake Superior basin. The selected projects are part of the Headwaters to Coast Initiative and the Wisconsin Lake Superior Collaborative. This effort brings partners together to prioritize and coordinate… Read More
Marinex Construction will begin mobilizing at Fish Haul Beach Park as part of the Town of Hilton Head Island’s beach renourishment project in mid-August. Marinex updated the new start date due to adverse weather and marine conditions affecting the transfer of materials and equipment from a site off the Florida Atlantic coast. Originally, Marinex was… Read More
By JP Rebello, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Recently recognized as one of America’s Best Restored Beaches in 2025, by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA), the Canaveral Sand Bypass project (CSB) in Brevard County, was lauded for effective management of an entire coastal system that supports wildlife, national security, space… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $710,000 contract to Tunheim Construction, out of Fargo, North Dakota, Aug. 6, for repair of the Grand Forks levee in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and to restore the levee to the original condition. In April 2023, the Red River of… Read More
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (August 11, 2025) — Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined Governor Patrick Morrisey, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Hardesty (representing Senator Jim Justice, Representative Carol Miller, Mayor Shane Evans and other state and local representatives today to officially sign the second amendment to the project partnership agreement for the Lower… Read More