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Joint Base Langley-Eustis’ Third Port, the U.S. Army’s pier complex sitting where Skiffe’s Creek meets the James River, recently completed a multi-month dredging project. The dredging, a 24/7 operation taking place April 18 – June 15, was part of a regularly scheduled maintenance, which occurs every five years. “Five years is just a historical mark,”… Read More
To prevent damage from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel, a watershed flood event for Baltimore in 2003, the Army Corps of Engineers has been studying for years whether widespread sea walls or massive storm surge barriers would help. A new plan it is floating for communities along Patapsco River shores includes neither. The… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $4.7 million to improve navigation into Ellsworth’s harbor after years of shifting bottom have reduced some passages to about a foot of clearance at low tide. Ellsworth City Manager Glenn Moshier confirmed that the corps put the Union River dredging project in its latest work plan and… Read More
For Schuylkill rowers, the second dredge will hopefully be the charm. The Texas-based contractor Dredgit has begun dredging the portion of the river in front of Boathouse Row — the first phase of a $13 million project that will later include the storied national racecourse farther upstream. The company will pump the spoils over Fairmount… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN) program was recently recognized by the U.K. Environment Agency. The EWN program’s “International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management (NNBF)” received the U.K. Environment Agency’s Flood and Coast Excellence Award for International Excellence. “The NNBF Guidelines are the next step… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected five companies to compete for environmental remediation task orders under a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $100 million over five years, according to a Department of Defense notice published Monday. Contractors will support customers serviced by USACE Alaska District. Solicitation documents released in February note the multiple-award acquisition program… Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has awarded a $103 million contract to Westinghouse Government Services of South Carolina for the decommissioning, dismantling and disposal of the deactivated SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska. “The Corps of Engineers has worked diligently to award the contract for this very complex and… Read More
Col. Adam Czekanski has been in command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District for a little over a year. As he looks back on the past year, he reflects on the accomplishments of district personnel who manage the 23 navigation locks and dams, 16 multi-purpose flood damage reduction reservoirs, 80 local flood… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has released the new Alvin R. Bush Dam Master Plan (“2022 Master Plan”) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) that will serve as the guiding document for decision making at the lake for next 15 to 25 years. This revision is a part of a larger, USACE-wide… Read More
On Aug. 4, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District awarded a contract to SNA Contracting from Shreveport, LA. to pave recreation areas at Sam Rayburn and Town Bluff Lakes. “This work is being completed under supplemental funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” said Sam Rayburn Lake Manager Reece Nelson. With… Read More
Berating the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of our favorite spectator sports here in Louisiana, especially since the disastrous flooding of Hurricane Katrina, 17 years ago this month. Corps engineers have been unpopular ever since. Maybe not as unpopular as NFL referees, but that’s a pretty low bar. So let’s take a minute… Read More
Commerce is now moving normally along the Columbia River and through John Day Lock after Army engineers completed repairs to damaged guide wheels by 12:30 p.m., August 5. Technicians originally discovered damage to a lower guide wheel on July 25, which initially closed the lock, and then slowed traffic at that point in the river…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has released the new Curwensville Lake Master Plan (“2022 Master Plan”) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) that will serve as the guiding document for decision making at the lake for next 15 to 25 years. This revision is a part of a larger, USACE-wide effort to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District announced that the road which crosses Gavins Point Dam, also known as Crest Road, will be closed Tuesday, Aug. 9 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for maintenance. The public is asked to take an alternate route during this closure. To stay informed about upcoming road closures,… Read More
Dredging to deepen the navigation channel in the Snake and Clearwater rivers could begin as soon as this winter. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found the work, which will remove an estimated 258,000 cubic yards of sand and other sediment from the channel and areas around the ports of Lewiston and Clarkston, will not… Read More