SAVANNAH, Ga. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, announces the Restoration Advisory Board membership has been established and the first meeting is scheduled for April 10, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., for the Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Sites Program property located within the Cape Hatteras Seashore in Dare County, North Carolina…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is actively monitoring this week’s forecasted heavy rainfall and preparing for potential wide-spread moderate to major flooding throughout portions of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. Cumulative rainfalls totals for this event may range from 2-15+ inches resulting in elevated lake levels at the district’s Flood Risk Management (FRM)… Read More
The Captiva Erosion Prevention District will hold a public hearing Monday on a tentative apportionment for a beach renourishment project set to start this summer. The estimated $26.67 million project cost will be paid, partly, through special assessments imposed on the properties that benefit. The project consists of placing some 800,000 cubic yards of beach fill along 4.85… Read More
The low, rock-covered berm juts like a crooked finger into the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. It doesn’t look like much now. When finished, though, this and other marine construction work under way in South Baltimore will become 10 acres of wetlands in a city desperately short of natural shoreline. Roughly three quarters of… Read More
A NOAA-funded project on the Upper Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Massachusetts, will remove fish passage barriers and restore wetlands on a former cranberry bog. This work complements earlier NOAA-funded work on the lower part of the river. Each autumn, a familiar sight returns to Cape Cod—acres of ruby red cranberries. They rise to the surface… Read More
