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  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 20-36 Trimble Lock (No.13) Width Restriction-Possible Delays

    MKARNS - Until further notice, tows locking through James W. Trimble Lock (No. 13) NM 292.8 are restricted to 70-foot width and will need to enter and exit along the river wall.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 20-35 USCG Advisory-Rob Roy RR Bridge Closures NM 67.4

    MKARNS - The Rob Roy Railroad Bridge in Pine Bluff will be in the closed-to-navigation position to conduct repairs during the dates and time periods shown below.

  • Employee’s hustle during navigation lock outage leads to agency-level win

    The task: manage your first emergency contract to repair some broken concrete that has brought a stand-still to $24 billion worth of annual commerce moving on the Columbia River while battling morning sickness.

  • Oakdale resident selected for prestigious U.S. Army award

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, recently selected Lt. Col. Patrick Sullivan, St. Paul District deputy commander and Oakdale, Minnesota, resident as the division’s nominee for the national John W. Macy, Jr. Award.

  • Pride Month celebrates LGBT community, honors achievements

    Fifty years ago, on June 28, 1970, the first Pride March took place in New York City. That day marked the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

  • Army Corps to reopen public beaches and visitor center at Raystown Lake

    As part of the phased reopening of recreation facilities following COVID-19 closures, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, announces the reopening of public beaches and most areas within the Raystown Lake Visitors Center, including the information center, interior restrooms and the retail store operated by the Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau, on June 27.

  • New Interactive Tools in Support of USACE’s Recreation Areas

    Through the Natural Resources Management (NRM) support team, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Institute for Water Resources (IWR) with the Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Lab have implemented new interactive Web tools to support USACE’s recreation areas in response to COVID-19 Pandemic.

  • Col. Kelly on Lake Okeechobee: balancing project purposes

    One of the challenges we face at the Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is balancing all of the purposes of managing Lake Okeechobee given to us by Congress – flood control, water supply, navigation, recreation, and preservation of fish and wildlife resources. As we enter rainy season, we will keep focusing on balancing the purposes of lake water management and setting favorable conditions.

  • Vicksburg District announces annual Engineer’s Day Awards, honors exceptional personnel service

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District hosted its annual Engineer’s Day awards ceremony at the district’s headquarters building in Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 25. Employees were recognized with a variety of honorary individual and team awards, and the ceremony was broadcast to the district’s teleworking personnel via YouTube Live in order to maintain safe social distancing measures.

  • Fort Worth District employee honored as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager of the Year

    FORT WORTH, Texas – Stacy Gray, Dam Safety Project Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,