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DETROIT- Even with a return to wetter conditions in late June and July, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers officials expect Great Lakes water levels to remain below 2019 and 2020 levels – when many record highs were set across the lakes. Late spring and summer are typically when the lakes reach seasonal peaks before beginning… Read More
COVINGTON, Va. – Gathright Dam operators are scheduled to conduct the year’s second water-pulse release from Lake Moomaw on Wednesday, August 11. The pulse, conducted by Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in coordination with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, will occur about 6 a.m. to 1:30… Read More
A multimillion-dollar construction project to build a cyber center at the Air Force Academy begins later this summer and will last through 2023. Lieutenant Gen. Richard Clark, the Academy’s superintendent, hosted a ground-breaking ceremony for the Madera Cyber Innovation Center Aug. 6 featuring the center’s namesake, Paul Madera. Madera, a 1978 Academy graduate, and his… Read More
DNREC’s Shoreline and Waterway Management section plans to dredge White Creek between November and March 2023, pleasing many boaters who have been calling for opening a channel back into the creek for safe navigation. Following a July 28 DNREC informational meeting, on the Zoom platform and attended by about 125 people, Michael Globetti, who handles… Read More
The Army Corp of Engineers (ACoE) is accepting public input on a 10-year plan for water releases from Lake Okeechobee. Repeatedly, the ACoE tells us that water quality is Florida’s responsibility; their mission is to “move it,” clean or toxic, and it has chosen preferred “Plan CC” for releases. They continually speak about “balance” for… Read More
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised the award of a $9.1 million contract to expedite an emergency bluff stabilization project at the Natchez National Cemetery. The Mississippi lawmakers worked with the Veterans Affairs Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and city officials to secure the contract, which was expedited… Read More
Work can begin late summer on preserving the 50-year-old South Banks Channel Bridge in Wrightsville Beach. North Carolina Department of Transportation awarded a contract of $3.7 million Coastal Gunite Construction Co. in Maryland to preserve the bridge. The bridge on Causeway Drive over the Banks Channel was built in 1972. Work to preserve it can… Read More
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — Work is in store for the South Banks Channel Bridge, the waterway connection that links Harbor Island with Wrightsville Beach’s commercial hub and 4-mile beach strand. The N.C. Department of Transportation announced Monday that a $3.7 million “preservation project contract” had been awarded to Coastal Gunite Construction Co., a Maryland company, which… Read More
TEXARKANA, Ark. – Over the last year, the Texarkana area has experienced some extreme flooding, especially around the Nix Creek area. Several feet of water has damaged homes more than once. The city is now working to prevent flooding along the creek and improvements should be happening soon. City leaders said Nix Creek is a… Read More
Friday EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers announced that between now and Labor Day they will be listening to stakeholders as they kick off what will be the eighth attempt to resolve by regulation the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act. We learned that EPA and the Corps plan not one but two… Read More
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., — Dr. Irene MacAllister, a research chemist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), has been awarded the Czech Republic’s University of Defence Medal honoring her “for the immense contribution she has made to the research effort in protection against high-risk biological agents.” She received the award upon recent completion… Read More
Galveston District Commander Col. Tim Vail held a town hall August 2 with the entire workforce, to discuss new COVID-19 mitigations in light of the newest COVID-19 strain — the Delta variant. Vail recommended the District workforce continue following all current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Department of Defense (DoD) installation requirements on COVID-19… Read More
HANOVER, N.H. – The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, celebrated Engineer Day July 15. The event is held annually to commemorate the organization’s accomplishments from the preceding year. “Despite the challenges faced during this global pandemic, we have many achievements to… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will be dredging 40 thousand cubic yards of sediment from the harbor. DULUTH, Minn.- Some portions of beach along Park Point will close for about a month starting this week for The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin 2021 dredging in the harbor. While the dredging won’t affect traffic… Read More