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  • 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.

  • Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day at The Dalles Dam Visitor Center, May 18

    USACE and the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center invite the public celebrate the 26th Annual Migratory Bird Day, Saturday, May 18, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This annual commemoration highlights the spectacular journeys that migratory birds take each year as they travel between nesting and non-breeding sites around the world.

  • USACE SEEKING RESOURCE AGENCY COMMENTS ON MOBILE HARBOR GRR SEIS

    MOBILE, Ala. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District announces the availability and soliciting of comments from resource agencies on the Mobile Harbor General Reevaluation Report (GRR) with an integrated Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), Mobile County, Alabama. A copy of the integrated SEIS is located at the following website: http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Program-and-Project-Management/Civil-Projects/Mobile-Harbor-GRR/. This document is being circulated to resource agencies for a 30-day comment period.

  • Corps of Engineers leveraging drone technology to capture imagery after flooding in Midwest

    In mid-to-late March, flood water covered much of eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, and northern Missouri. Due to the extreme amount of water in the area, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District had trouble getting to the more than 500 miles of compromised levees to surveille for damage so they turned to a new option to the Omaha District....drones. Drones, or unmanned aerial systems, offer the District the opportunity to fly over affected levees and other flooded areas without putting District employees in danger.

  • EIS for San Francisco to Stockton Navigation Improvement Project Now Available

    The Draft General Reevaluation Report (GRR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the San Francisco Bay to Stockton Navigation Improvement Project, prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is available for public review.

  • TODAY: Corps to operate Bonnet Carré Spillway

    Based on changes to the current and forecasted conditions the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will operate the Bonnet Carré Spillway today as early as 1 p.m.