Lower Perdido Islands Restoration Bid Notification of Upcoming Project The Nature Conservancy (TNC), hereby advertises bids for construction of The Lower Perdido Islands Restoration as follows: Owner: The Nature Conservancy Project Title: Lower Perdido Islands Restoration Principal Work Location: The Contract Work will be generally located on Robinson Island and Walker Island in Baldwin County,… Read More
The responsibility of taking care of her disabled mother, tending to livestock and the fear of the constant flooding that may arrive with the next monsoon season weighs heavily on Brittanny Taylor, a Navajo Nation Birdsprings Chapter resident. “Flooding in the last few years has been catastrophic for us,” Taylor said. “This past spring thaw,… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $2.5 million contract to Dubuque Barge and Fleeting Service Company doing business as Newt Marine Service out of Dubuque, Iowa, to make repairs to the upper guidewall at Lock and Dam 2, near Hastings, Minnesota. Guidewalls are long extensions of… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss.- Researchers from eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2024 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Risk Manager – Megaprojects Alexander Bredikhin of the Pittsburgh District has been chosen as a participant for this detail program now in its ninth year. ERDC-U Program Lead… Read More
Across the globe, shorelines are under threat from rising sea levels and intensifying storms. Island states and coastal cities are taking action to defend themselves, from building seawalls to dredging sand from the seabed and pumping it onto beaches. In the Maldives, a 900-kilometer-long chain of about 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, the Massachusetts Institute of… Read More
