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For the 2022 calendar year, Missouri River basin runoff above Sioux City, Iowa totaled 19.3 million acre-feet, 75% of average. This was the 30th lowest annual runoff for the Missouri River Basin in 125 years of record-keeping. The ongoing drought shows little relief in sight and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts runoff into the… Read More
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a final rule establishing a durable definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) to reduce uncertainty from changing regulatory definitions, protect people’s health, and support economic opportunity. The final rule restores essential water protections that were in… Read More
Construction services will consist of maintenance dredging of the federal navigation channels at Santa Barbara Harbor. Dredge material will be placed on down coast beaches. Dredging at Santa Barbara Harbor occurs biannually, generally in the late fall(November/December) and early spring (March/April) and will consist of a total of six dredge cycles. A typical dredge cycle… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary on Nov. 1, 2023. The district was established on Nov. 1, 1948, just a few years after the completion of the Mill Creek Project. The land that would become the Walla Walla District was originally part of the USACE Portland District…. Read More
The upcoming large lock extended closure schedule will close the large lock to all vessel traffic during: Closure #1 10/16/2023 11/14/2023 Single Chamber Navigation 11/15/2023 11/29/2023 Closure #2 11/30/2023 12/29/2023 Single Chamber Navigation 12/30/2023 1/13/2024 Optional Closure 1/14/2024 2/12/2024 Single Chamber Navigation 2/13/2024 10/14/2024… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District is responding to a levee breach along the Nooksack River near Slater Road in Whatcom County, Washington. The district activated its Emergency Operations Center yesterday to oversee the work and continue to provide technical assistance to communities affected by flood and king tide related impacts. Officials suspect the… Read More
North Charleston, S.C.,based Detyens Shipyards Inc. has been awarded a $10,051,547 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220523C2142) for a 75-calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of Military Sealift Command’s fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203). The contract includes a base period and three options that, if exercised would bring its cumulative to $10,606,947. Work will be performed in… Read More
Galveston, Texas, headquartered Callan Marine Ltd. has been awarded a $13,845,450 firm-fixed-price contract for pipeline deep-draft dredging of the Houston Ship Channel. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work will be performed in Houston, Texas, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 11, 2023. Fiscal 2023 civil operation and maintenance funds in the amount… Read More
State and federal officials recently announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District had awarded a $23.8 million contract for beach replenishment projects in Delaware. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Ed Voigt said Dec. 20 the corps’ contractor, Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J., is expected to begin mobilization in March, with expected completion before Memorial… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sacramento District will temporarily close Knights Ferry Bridge starting Dec. 30, following a structural analysis that determined significant wood deterioration has compromised the stability of the historic covered bridge located in Knights Ferry. For the safety of the public, the bridge will be closed to pedestrian traffic for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partnered with the Shoalwater Bay Tribe to restore the Shoalwater Bay Dune on the Tokeland Peninsula, Washington, in time before the first major storm of 2022. The dune had sustained several storm events that caused breaching and 100 percent loss of the northern dune cross-section. Restoring the dune reduces… Read More
President Biden signed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 into law on December 23, 2022, which includes authorization of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Coastal Texas Program. This legislative action officially authorizes USACE to begin implementation activities for this large-scale coastal storm risk management and ecosystem restoration program, pending appropriation of funding…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, recently awarded a contract for constructing the first levee reach on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project. This contract will construct approximately one mile of the 17.5-mile-long levee system that will provide 100-year level risk reduction to the area… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District will begin dredging the lower Snake River navigation channel beginning in January. The dredging will remove accumulated sediment from the federal navigation channel below the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam navigation lock near Pasco, Washington, and near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers near… Read More
President Joe Biden signed the 2022 Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) December 23, which lawmakers included in the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023. This action includes authorizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with planning a downstream fish passage facility at Howard A. Hanson Dam in King… Read More