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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a $172.9 million construction contract for the Sacramento Weir Widening Project to Granite Construction Company of Watsonville, California. The Sacramento Weir Widening Project will add a new 1,500-foot-wide weir adjacent to the existing 1,950-foot-wide structure that has been in place for the last 106 years. The… Read More
Beginning in June, the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin to gradually drawdown Lookout Point and Green Peter reservoirs to historically low levels. The goal of these reservoir “drawdowns,” which are part of an injunction ordered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, is to increase juvenile spring Chinook and… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Walla Walla District will begin diverting water from Mill Creek to Bennington Lake today, May 10, in preparation for the upcoming recreation season. Water Management officials have been analyzing the basin and have determined the flood risk is now low enough for the current snowpack to support Bennington Lake’s refill…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recognized 71 of their subcomponent organizations for earning one of several “USACE Best Places to Work” categories during an awards ceremony today at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Awards are based on employee responses to the 2022 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) regarding overall satisfaction with their job… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District officially launched its new, $25.5 million Bank Grading Unit (BGU), “Grader 1”, with a christening ceremony held on the afternoon of May 2 at a boat ramp located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Event attendees included Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, Memphis District leadership including District… Read More
Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, awarded an architect-engineer contract totaling $6.8 million to continue and complete the design of the North Bypass Channel in support of the Modified Central City Project. The A-E contract was awarded to CDM-Stanley Joint Venture – the team who previously developed the 60 percent design. … Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, and the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP, in Spanish) are calling on residents from the Aguada and Aguadilla municipalities to participate in a community meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the basketball court across from the Tablonal Community Center. During the meeting,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed it will not use hopper dredges in Brunswick Harbor during spring or summer months until it conducts a rigorous environmental review of potential impacts, One Hundred Miles and the Southern Environmental Law Center announced today. Since 2021, OHM and SELC have fought against efforts by the Corps… Read More
Work is ongoing on the city’s new dredged material facility, with steps being taken to help ensure it is completed on time. City Council approved a pair of change orders to material facility, and approved an amended grant agreement with the Ohio EPA to help pay for the project. The two change orders will allow… Read More
Leaders from the cities of Solana Beach and Encinitas will Thursday shore up their beaches for the next half-century by signing a project partnership agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The agreement will begin placement of beach-dredged sand this fall as the first phase of a 50-year coastal resiliency project that has been… Read More
Officials say the hiring of an additional dredge company will allow beach replenishment in Fenwick Island to conclude before Memorial Day. In last week’s town council meeting, Mayor Natalie Magdeburger announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired a second dredge company to complete beach replenishment work in Delaware’s coastal communities, beginning in Fenwick… Read More
Looking toward an expected completion date of mid-May, beach nourishment has been underway in Rehoboth Beach since late April. With that in mind, the Army Corps of Engineers released an updated construction schedule May 1 for Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach, South Bethany and Fenwick Island. Additionally, the Army Corps has updated the amount of sand each… Read More
USACE Jacksonville and its partner, St. Johns County, invite the public to a presentation and discussion of the Draft Report and Environmental Assessment for the Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study May 11, 2023, from 6 to 8 p.m. The program will include informal discussion, a detailed presentation of the Draft… Read More
A U.S. agency has agreed to an in-depth environmental study into whether dredging a Georgia shipping channel in the spring and summer would threaten rare sea turtles nesting on nearby beaches — a review demanded by conservationists who sued to stop the project. Georgia conservation group One Hundred Miles moved to dismiss its lawsuit against the… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has begun maintenance dredging of sections of the Ponce de Leon Inlet and nearby sections of the Intracoastal Waterway. The USACE dredging vessel Murden is expected to remove approximately 60,000 cubic yards of shoaling material over a 40-day period. Operations will be ongoing 24 hours per day, seven… Read More