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  • Corps announces additional changes to navigation on Kissimmee River

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District is implementing additional navigation restrictions for boaters along roughly 10 miles of the lower Kissimmee River basin. Earlier this summer, the Corps closed a portion of the canal seven miles upstream to three miles downstream of the U.S. Highway 98 bridge located near Basinger approximately 20 miles northwest of Okeechobee. Now the Corps is advising boaters that the historic oxbows in the vicinity are also closed to navigation.

  • Corps in Kansas City declares end to 2019 flood event on Missouri River

    By order of Col. Bill Hannan, the commander of the Kansas City District, the Emergency Operations Center activation level returned to Level IV – normal operations – today. The district has been continuously activated since March 13, 2019 – 279 days which marks the longest duration declared flooding event in district history.

  • 19-111 Corps seeks public input for Ice Harbor navigation lock upstream floating guidewall cables repair

    BURBANK, Wash. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District (Corps) is seeking input on the Ice Harbor navigation lock upstream floating guidewall cables repair.

  • USACE Tenn-Tom Waterway To Accept Electronic Payments Only At Recreation Sites

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project in Columbus, Mississippi, is only accepting credit and debit cards as a form of payment at DeWayne Hayes Day Use Recreation Area and Cochrane Campground effective Dec. 13, 2019, with multiple recreation sites to follow, starting in 2020.

  • Invasive species mussel in on Gavins Point Dam

    When you’re talking about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ six mainstem dams on the Missouri River, the word small is a relative term. While the dams and their powerhouses vary in size, they are all imposing structures. For instance, Gavins Point Dam, near Yankton, South Dakota, is the smallest of the six, yet it took 7 million cubic yards of earth to build and its three Kaplan generators are capable of generating electricity for 68,000 homes. This makes it that much more ironic that something as small as a zebra mussel could give it such big problems.

  • Buffalo District to conduct Feasibility Study to deepen Port of Oswego

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District received approval and funding to initiate the Feasibility Study for the deepening of the Port of Oswego’s navigation channel. The study will look at options to improve the economic efficiency of the harbor and the cost of making those improvements.

  • Notice of Availability of Draft EIS and Public Meeting for U.S. Highway 275 West Point to Scribner

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Nebraska Regulatory Office will initiate a 45-day public comment period and hold a public meeting for the U.S. Highway 275 (US-275) West Point to Scribner Expressway Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to provide an opportunity for the public to review and provide comments.

  • Thule Air Base, Arctic - Consistently on top of its game

    Not too long ago at Thule Air Base, Greenland located in the Arctic, a change of command ceremony was taking place. Outgoing 821st Air Base Group U.S. Air Force Commander - Col. Mafwa Kuvibidila- passed the flag to her successor Col. Timothy J. Bos.

  • Corps Signs Partnership Agreement for Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District has entered into a more than $1.3-million project-partnership agreement with the city of Steubenville to complete upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant.

  • Corps announces LOSOM Project Delivery Team Meeting via Web Meeting

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, announces the next Project Delivery Team (PDT) meeting for the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM), to be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, December 19 as an online Web Meeting.