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Most functions of the Army Corps of Engineers, including oversight of hurricane and river levees, coastal wetland permitting and river navigation in Louisiana, would be transferred to the departments of Interior and Transportation under a Trump administration plan announced Thursday to completely restructure the federal government. The corps now handles what are called “civil works”… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army are moving forward with a proposed “Step 2” rule in their closely watched effort to redefine the contentious Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule written by the Obama administration. After the Office of Management and Budget finishes its interagency review, the two agencies… Read More
The Corps of Engineers posted its FY2018 work plan June 7. The plan distributes the additional funding provided in the FY2018 omnibus bill and identifies new starts and feasibility studies for navigation projects, many of whose dredging requirements are extensive and/or have been delayed. In addition to funds specifically dedicated to particular programs, the Corps… Read More
The Rock Island District’s two new hydrographic survey boats are at work on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. They were commissioned at District headquarters the week of June 4. Dubbed Rock Island I and Rock Island II during manufacture, the names of the boats—the Clark and the Dubuque, respectively—were approved by Corps Headquarters on June… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi approved a bond resolution authorizing the Port to issue up to $217 million in revenue bonds to help finance major capital improvements, including the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. The financing will allow the Port to continue developing more terminals, rail, and channel improvements needed to handle the burgeoning oil and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have included $556,250 in its 2018 work plan for the start of a feasibility study for the Miami Harbor Safety and Navigational Channel Improvements Program at PortMiami. The channel improvements are necessary to accommodate economic growth at the port and in the region. Safety and navigational enhancements will enable… Read More
ArcDMC Sediment Solutions, LLC successfully completed an innovative geophysical survey of muck sediment in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida precisely locating the aerial extent and depth of muck (over historic sediment) to accurately determine volumes for cost-effective surgical dredging. The goal of the survey was to demonstrate that ArcDMC’s resistivity survey method followed by vibracore… Read More
When the Army Corps of Engineers was trying to figure out whether it would be beneficial to dig Charleston Harbor to a 52-foot depth, it hired consulting firm Global Insight to forecast how fast containerized cargo will grow at the Port of Charleston in coming years. After running the numbers, Global Insight predicted the port… Read More
The city of Dardanelle and the Yell County Wildlife Federation (YCWF) have about three weeks to determine if they will appeal a federal judge’s recent decision to dismiss a lawsuit that has blocked construction of a proposed intermodal facility. U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. ruled June 8 in Little Rock that a lawsuit… Read More
A federal judge recently ruled in favor of Georgia and 10 other states that sought to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the pollution of wetlands and tributaries. Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court in Brunswick determined that a 2015 Waters of the United States rule infringed on states’ rights to… Read More
The world’s biggest cargo ships, some a quarter-mile long, could be docking regularly near downtown Seattle before long. After four years’ study, the Army Corps of Engineers has given the okay to digging deeper shipping channels around Harbor Island at the mouth of the Duwamish River. The dredging down to a depth of 57 feet… Read More
Funding for inland waterways is having a good moment in Washington, D.C., as lawmakers are nearing approval of strong budgets for navigation infrastructure, while rejecting user fees and tolls that were proposed by the Trump administration. In three important developments over the past week, Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers have taken action to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2018 (FY 2018) work plan for the Army Civil Works program on Thursday, June 7. On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141, of which Division D is the Energy and Water Development… Read More
The dredging of the fishing and commercial port of Dellys in Algeria will be launched in the third quarter of 2018, the public works department of the Boumerdès Province. The project will extend the area of the port, one of the oldest in Algeria and increase its draft, the province’s wali Abderrahmane Madani Fouatih, said… Read More
Floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey inundated hundreds of thousands of homes. Now, nearly 10 months later, a solution may be in the works that could protect entire Houston-area neighborhoods from suffering the same fate again during a major flood event. What is the proposal? In addition to spending money on building a third reservoir, U.S. Rep…. Read More