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ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, continues to lower water elevations within its six Mississippi River Headwaters reservoirs in anticipation of winter conditions. Gull Lake, near Brainerd, Minnesota, is at 1,193.76 feet. The outflow is at 195 cubic feet per second, or cfs. The lake level is about… Read More
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov 15, 2021– Black & Veatch announces that Randy Castro, president of the company’s federal business and a retired U.S. Army major general, will be awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) highest honor – the Gold de Fleury Medal – in recognition of his lifetime achievements and significant contributions to… Read More
Model run chosen as framework for future water control plan improves conditions for Central and South Florida communities he Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual is without doubt the most important water management effort we are working on in Central and South Florida for the next year. We’ve spent two years developing and working to meet… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation Signs Contract with Philly Shipyard, Inc. to Build the First Jones-Act Compliant Subsea Rock Installation Vessel for U.S. Offshore Wind Historic milestone for domestic offshore wind industry, will create hundreds of U.S. jobs. Major step in establishing U.S.-based rock supply chain for the offshore wind industry. Vessel expected to… Read More
The passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending package is setting off a mad dash from states and counties seeking federal funds to repair and replace the nation’s crumbling bridges, roads and ports. The legislation will deliver $550 billion of new federal investments to projects over the next five years. Many infrastructure plans have been… Read More
Woolpert collected bathymetric lidar data at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan under the previous Coastal Geospatial Services Contract. These data support benthic mapping to help manage and mitigate threats like erosion and increased nutrient influx. Woolpert will provide topo-bathy lidar data acquisition and processing, survey and GIS services, geospatial training and more under… Read More
North Carolina Department of Transportation crews will begin next week a yearlong facelift project on a Wrightsville Beach bridge. The outside eastbound lane of the South Banks Channel Bridge on Causeway Drive, or U.S. 76, crossing Banks Channel will be closed beginning at 9 a.m. Monday and is scheduled to remain closed until next fall,… Read More
Oak Island Town Council agreed Tuesday to changes in its contracts for ongoing beach renourishment. Council also agreed to continue negotiations with a company to replace the skateboard park destroyed by Hurricane Isaias in August 2020. Council agreed to two amendments to ongoing beach improvement projects. One change will pay contractors $145,000 for surveys of… Read More
With the coronavirus continuing to impact how training and meetings are conducted, Seattle District flood team managers found ways to adapt, overcome and even improve on this year’s spring flood exercises. Flood teams held the standard 10 basin flood exercises on the eastern side of the Cascades, some of which were virtual and some in… Read More
EDF and nearly 100 organizations and experts send a call to action urging the Corps to usher in a new era of comprehensive, equitable and nature-based flood risk reduction (WASHINGTON, DC – Nov. 10, 2021) As a rapidly changing climate fuels stronger hurricanes, more intense rainfall and sea level rise, EDF and nearly 100 organizations… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is preparing for major repairs at six of its Mississippi River locks this winter to ensure they continue working as designed. Maintenance is scheduled at Lock and Dam 4, Alma, Wisconsin; Lock and Dam 5A, near Fountain City, Wisconsin; Lock and Dam… Read More
The pending study required congressional approval. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it has completed a summer’s worth of work to temporarily bolster part of Park Point’s eroding shoreline. But the potentially bigger news is that the Corps has authorized a congressionally approved federal study to examine the cause of the ongoing land… Read More
‘It’s going to be a vast improvement over how we’re operating today.’ Col. James Booth of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said he expects the new Lake Okeechobee regulation plan to be an improvement, despite fielding several complaints over the plan in previous weeks and months. Booth spoke Wednesday in front of the South… Read More
NEAR WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River for the last few months and this week they’ve started to move thousands of cubic yards of sand near Winona. The corps dredges the river every year from April-November. Removing sand and increasing the river’s depth so barges… Read More
Eight state channels will be restored to safe navigable depths (Trenton) – New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials today announced the start of a navigation dredging project next week in the Manasquan River complex in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The $7.2 million project will restore eight channels to a state of good repair to… Read More