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Surf City may get to go it alone on a federal beach nourishment project the town has been trying to secure for more than two decades. Town officials recently announced that the Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of reevaluating a 50-year project for Surf City after neighboring North Topsail Beach backed out… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District awarded a $1,372,000 contract to Michigan-based Luedtke Engineering to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Sandusky Harbor and will begin on September 18 through mid-October. With partial funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), material dredged from the harbor channel… Read More
Today, a coalition of Gulf and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has once again delayed its timing to seek bids to dredge the Matagorda Bay shipping channel through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site to vastly expand exports from an oil export terminal on the Texas Gulf… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District’s present beach restoration project in Miami Beach has its roots in the previous millennium. More than half a century ago, officials in Dade County, Florida, concluded that natural erosion and storm damage to the Miami Beach coastline was a serious threat to the health of its beaches,… Read More
The U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District received a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mission assignment to perform pump assessments at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant in Ridgeland, Mississippi, Sept. 1, 2022, to support the Jackson water crisis. USACE Vicksburg District engineers were on site that afternoon after receiving the mission… Read More
Officials at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam are closing dam crossings to the public from Sept. 12 to Sept. 25 in order to perform spillway maintenance. Normal crossing hours are once an hour, on the half-hour, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Public dam crossings are also available at Lower Granite Lock… Read More
Mariners are advised that Montgomery Point Lock and Dam (NM 0.5) is currently closed to all navigation traffic. Due to falling river elevations, the crest gates have been raised and the navigation pass is closed. Due to problems with the operation of the lock miter gates, vessels are not able to pass through the lock… Read More
Decades after neighbors first broached the subject, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has picked a company to dredge debris that’s choking stretches of Jacksonville’s Fishweir Creek. Jacksonville-based Underwater Mechanix Services LLC was awarded an $8.2 million contract to carry out an aquatic ecosystem restoration that hinges on removing sediment that has settled in the creek for at least a half-century…. Read More
Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Great Lakes Districts — Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago — recently released a technical report which provides guidance for evaluating the environmental suitability of dredged material in the Great Lakes region. The “Environmental Evaluation and… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded a contract Aug. 26, 2022, to execute an aquatic ecosystem restoration project at Big Fishweir Creek. Big Fishweir Creek is an urban tributary of the St. Johns River, running approximately four miles south of downtown Jacksonville. It enters the St. Johns River, a designated American Heritage River,… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Blansett was awarded the Silver De Fleury Medal at Division Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Aug. 22nd, 2022. The medal was presented by outgoing division commander Brig. Gen. Jason Kelly who stated, “The Silver De Fleury is a really big deal. There are… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a drop-in public workshop from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. September 13 at the Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville, 211 SE Walton Blvd., Bentonville, Arkansas. Information will be available at the workshop regarding potentially impacted properties and the newly proposed willing sellers only acquisition alternative. All interested persons are invited… Read More
The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will close some of its facilities at Wright Patman Lake beginning Sept. 2 to conduct routine maintenance operations. “Dewatering is necessary to conduct scheduled routine maintenance of the stilling basin,” said Emmitt Attaway, the Piney Woods Region’s Environmental Stewardship Business Line Manager. According to Attaway, the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District emergency operations center (EOC) activated at Level 2, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m., due to flooding on the Pearl River in the Jackson, Mississippi, area. Level 2, or Emergency Watch, means personnel will monitor conditions from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The District is providing… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is employing emergency authority to remove remaining portions of Green River Lock and Dam 6, near Brownsville, Kentucky, which is obstructing Green River. Currently, the remaining portions of Green River Dam 6 are obstructing a navigable waterway and presenting a safety hazard to members of the public… Read More