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  • Dam West Boat Ramp Closed Temporarily for IHSA State Bass Fishing Finals

    CARLYLE LAKE - The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Bass Fishing Finals are being held at Carlyle Lake Friday, 17 May 2019 – Saturday, 18 May 2019 at the Dam West Boat Ramp in the Dam West Day Use Area. To accommodate tournament activities, the Dam West Boat Ramp will be closed from Monday, 13 May 2019 at 10:00 p.m. through Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 6:00 p.m. Visitors should use Allen Branch and Apache Boat Ramps located in Eldon Hazlet State Park or the Dam East Boat Ramp and Keyesport Boat Ramp which will be available to the general public during this period.

  • Army Corps working on NOAA’s Howard A. Hanson Dam BiOp recommendation

    Seattle District Corps officials met with fisheries experts May 8, to begin working on NOAA’s Biological Opinion (BiOp) recommendations to offset effects to Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed fish and Orcas from the operation and maintenance of Howard A. Hanson Dam (HAHD). Participants included the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, NOAA Fisheries, Washington State’s Departments of Ecology and Fish and Wildlife, King County and Tacoma Water officials.

  • Corps seeks public comment on Draft Environmental Assessment on Line 84 Pipeline Remediation Project

    A draft environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed rehabilitation of a segment of an 8-inch diameter steel crude oil pipeline, Line 84, owned and operated by the North Dakota Pipeline Company LLC (NDPL), near the City of Trenton in Williams County, North Dakota is currently available for public review. Comments must be postmarked or received no later than June 14, 2019.

  • High Water Impacts Mississippi Reservoirs: Grenada Lake Flows Enter Spillway

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District notified local authorities and emergency management personnel May 10 that flows from Grenada Lake, located near Interstate 55 in north Mississippi, were forecasted to enter the project’s spillway within the week. Since notifying local authorities and emergency management personnel, flows from the reservoir at Grenada Lake began entering the project’s spillway May 10. The reservoir at Grenada Lake Dam is currently at an elevation of 232.1 feet. The project’s spillway is at an elevation of 231 feet. Any reservoir elevations above the spillway crest will pass through the project’s spillway until the reservoir pool drops below the spillway crest.

  • Vicksburg District Updates Local Officials on Conditions in the Yazoo Backwater Area

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District met with local Warren County officials May 10 at the district’s headquarters building in Vicksburg to provide an overview of current and forecasted conditions in the Yazoo Backwater area and discuss the implications of these conditions on Eagle Lake. Additionally, district engineers provided an update on conditions at the Steele Bayou Control Structure and the Muddy Bayou Control Structure, located approximately 10 miles north of Vicksburg.

  • 19-051 Corps and Port of Kennewick sign Clover Island cost share agreement

    KENNEWICK, Wash. – The Port of Kennewick and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District (Corps) have signed a cost share agreement to create a living shoreline, provide benefits for endangered and threatened species and enhance recreational access to the Columbia River.

  • 19-050 Road maintenance work to intermittently close Mill Creek trails May 13-17

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Work to re-grade gravel maintenance-access roads throughout the Mill Creek Dam and Bennington Lake project area will require intermittent trail closures May 13-17, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operations officials.

  • Corps of Engineers park facilities at Truman Lake impacted by flooding

    Recent rains have increased Harry S. Truman Lake’s elevation to 724.11’ mean sea level this morning, and the lake is expected to surpass 728’ msl by mid-week next week – that is with no additional rain. Therefore, some Corps of Engineers facilities are being closed or partially closed due to flooding. Increased surveillance of the dam will begin at elevation 725.6’ msl.

  • Local and federal partners meet along the Lake Ontario shoreline

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District team put “boots on the ground” today in the Town of Greece and the Village of Wilson, in coordination with our many partners, to better understand shoreline conditions and mitigation efforts underway in response to the rising Lake Ontario water levels.

  • Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers coordinate transit of vessel through water closure zone

    ST. LOUIS – The Coast Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers coordinated the safe transit of a vessel, scheduled to provide emergency support for flood damage, through a high water closure zone in the St. Louis Harbor, Friday.