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  • Murrell honored by Corps for ‘Act of Heroism’ at Truman Lake

    The Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognized a citizen yesterday for heroism. At Long Shoal Marina near Warsaw, Mo., Truman Lake Operations Project Manager Jim Sandberg presented an 'Act of Heroism' award to Lonnie Murrell, of Warsaw, Mo., for saving the lives of a group of men involved in a boating accident.

  • Multi-agency agreement provides Corps permitees with new mitigation option, supports Atlantic salmon recovery

    CONCORD, Mass. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (Corps), the U.S. Fish and

  • 18-119 Walla Walla District employees deploy to support FEMA’s Operation Blue Roof mission

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Three U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District employees deployed this week to assist the Jacksonville District’s support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Blue Roof mission in Georgia and Florida, according to District emergency management officials.

  • Community commemorates, dedicates Dale Hollow Dam on 75th Anniversary

    CELINA, Tenn. (Oct. 19, 2018) – As a heavy fog lifted over Dale Hollow Dam and Reservoir during the 75th Anniversary Commemoration this morning, members of the community and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials brought into clear focus how communities, homes and farmlands were given up in the early 1940s to make way for the reservoir, and more than a thousand men worked day and night to construct the dam. A few even lost their lives supporting an expedited construction program.

  • Fort Bend County partners with USACE to study Brazos River erosion

    GALVESTON, Texas (Oct. 18, 2018) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, and Fort Bend County have signed an agreement for a feasibility study that will investigate erosion flood risks along the Brazos River. The purpose of the Feasibility study is to ensure the protection of infrastructure, such as roads, levees and buildings from erosion.

  • MOBILE DISTRICT COMMANDER VISITS TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE

    Col. Sebastien P. Joly, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District commander, and Wynne Fuller, chief of Operations Division for Mobile District, visited the USACE Resident Office at Tyndall Air Force Base, on Oct. 17, 2018 in Panama City, Fla.

  • KELLY BUNTING: A TALE OF SURVIVAL, COURAGE

    “It was like 100 pressure washers going on all at once.” Those were the words of Kelly Bunting, a park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at the Lake Seminole Project Office, who along with her husband Nate, a biologist with the Florida Wildlife Commission, their nine-year-old daughter Norah, and their Boston Terrier Roxie, survived the harrowing ordeal known as “Hurricane Michael.”

  • Virtual Industry Day set for Range and Training Lands program

    HUNTSVILLE, Alabama--The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has scheduled a Virtual Industry Day for its Range and Training Land program. The event coincides with the Small Business Forum 2018, set for Oct. 23 at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration located on the U.S. Space & Rocket Center campus at 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama.

  • Corps awards contract for removal of Interim Closure Structures

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District awarded a $17 million contract to St. Rose, LA, based small business M.R. Pittman Group, LLC for removal of the Interim Closure Structures (ICS) at three outfall canals along the New Orleans lakefront.

  • Corps drills into Foster Dam during geotechnical investigation

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dam Safety team will conduct a geotechnical investigation at Foster Dam near Sweet Home, Oregon. Drilling should begin on October 22 and it will include boring into the dam’s embankment or rock-fill portion of the dam.