MOUNT VERNON – Knox County commissioners met this week on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to approve various contracts and open bids for a water tower project in Martinsburg. On Tuesday, the Commissioners were slated to meet with Kim Horn, director of the Knox County Board of Elections. That meeting was canceled and rescheduled for September… Read More
CHEBOYGAN — Ryba Marine Construction Company was recently awarded a large contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, to do some work on the MacArthur Lock in Sault Ste. Marie. “The contract is for replacement of the mechanical drive system used to operate four filling and emptying tainter valves on the… Read More
The Jekyll Creek Beneficial Use Pilot Project has won the 2020 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sustainability Green Dream Team Award! We are grateful for the national recognition this project has received. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the numerous partners and agencies who collaborated on this project, the first of… Read More
Fugro has secured a three-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the State of Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) for the provision of statewide survey services. Active from now until August 2023, the contract involves services including topographic, hydrographic, geophysical and land surveys to support restoration and protection efforts in Louisiana’s coastal… Read More
WESTERLY — About 70,800 cubic yards of sand will be dredged and removed from Winnapaug Pond as part of an eelgrass restoration project that remains on schedule to start this fall and winter. During an internet overview meeting Wednesday, officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided the most up to date information on… Read More
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, announces a contract award to replace aging equipment on the MacArthur Lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The more than $7 million contract was awarded to Ryba Marine Construction Co. The contract (award number W911XK20C0020) was for $ $7,276,650.00 to replace the World War II-era… Read More
A subsidiary of Dulany Industries is planning to build a marine terminal on its SeaPoint Complex on the Savannah River. Dulany subsidiary Sulfco filed the permit application with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on July 24. What’s now called SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex was once the site of American Cyanamid, then Kerr-McGee, Kemira and… Read More
Anchorage, AK – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) sent a letter to the Pebble Partnership outlining their expectations for compensatory mitigation wetlands impacts associated with the project. The letter from the USACE has been anticipated by the Pebble Partnership as part of the ongoing discussions about the issue. PLP CEO Tom Collier issued… Read More
Construction will begin later this year on a $400 million lock in the Houma Navigation Canal that serves as the linchpin to Terrebonne Parish’s hurricane-protection system. The action comes after the project, in the works for years, received final permits last week from the state Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…. Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District has announced fall and winter schedules for campgrounds and recreation areas across its Arkansas lakes, Lake Ouachita, DeGray Lake and Lake Greeson. The following campgrounds at Lake Ouachita will be partially closed beginning 4 p.m. on Oct. 31 until March 1, 2021: Brady… Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Longview Lake announces maintenance and repair work to the embankment slopes (front and back) of Longview Dam in Kansas City, Mo. For the safety of lake visitors and workers, traffic lights are installed on the dam for the duration of the project while construction… Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WHAT: Groundbreaking ceremony for construction of multiple seepage remediation projects to include Below Senath, Missouri; Big Island, Arkansas; and Below Piggott/Below Hwy 90, Arkansas. WHO: Partners to include the St. Francis Drainage District of Clay and Greene Counties, Arkansas and officials, the Mississippi River Commission and the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District signed a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) with the City of Clinton, Mississippi, Friday, August 21 as part of the Mississippi Environmental Infrastructure Program (Section 592). The PPA will rehabilitate Clinton’s water system, including the refurbishment of a one million gallon elevated water storage… Read More
The North Carolina Ferry Division announced in July that it was temporarily reducing service on Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke because of critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel. Cedar Island is in eastern Carteret County. The Army Corps of Engineers’ most recent survey at the time showed depths in the… Read More
In July, the North Carolina Ferry System announced that they were temporarily reducing service on the Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter, and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel just outside of Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The latest survey at that time, by the Army Corps of Engineers, showed water… Read More