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  • Commander reflects on time as member of 9/11 search-and-rescue team

    The inside of the building was dark, smoky, damp and hot. It was still smoldering from the fires that raged within it just hours before, when Col. Aaron Barta, then a captain and commander of the Military District of Washington Engineer Company, and his team stepped into the battered Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001.

  • Flannagan Drawdown Public Meeting Announced

    HUNTINGTON, W.Va – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public meeting to inform the public and seek their input regarding potential changes to the winter drawdown process at the John W. Flannagan Dam, located in Dickenson County, Virginia, on Sept. 27, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at the Conference Center at the Breaks Interstate Park, 627 Commission, Cir., Breaks, Va.

  • 18-109 Corps invites comments on draft FONSI for City of Blackfoot Wastewater Collection and Treatment System Improvements Project

    BLACKFOOT, Idaho – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District invites public comments on its draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the City of Blackfoot, Idaho, Wastewater Collection and Treatment System Improvements Project. Comments are due to the Corps no later than Friday, Oct. 12, 2018.

  • Honolulu District activates EOC, response teams for storms

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- Honolulu District activated its Emergency Operation Center Sept. 6, 2018, in support of the response to Typhoon Mangkhut that ravaged the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Hurricane/Tropical Storm Olivia that is heading for landfall in the eastern Hawaiian Islands. USACE is working in partnership with the local, state, and federal response in preparation for Hurricane/Tropical Storm Olivia. USACE has more than 100 personnel engaged and coordinating with local, state and Federal Emergency Management Agency partners on the Hawaiian Islands and CNMI.

  • Celebrate National Public Lands Day at Coralville Lake

    IOWA CITY, Iowa – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is celebrating National Public Lands Day at Coralville Lake, Saturday, September 29. Festivities will include a park cleanup and an outdoor concert. Volunteers of all ages are invited to help with the park cleanup from 1-4 p.m., trash bags and gloves will be provided. Following the cleanup, all registered volunteers will receive a voucher for free entry into a federal park or a single night of camping at Coralville Lake. To register, call 319-338-3543, ext. 6308 or e-mail Coralville.Lake@usace.army.mil. Onsite registration will also be available the day of the event at the Coralville Lake Visitor Center between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

  • City of Milford DPW seeks Corps permit to construct boardwalk, retaining wall, do other work in Milford

    CONCORD, Mass. – The city of Milford, Department of Public Works is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District to conduct work in waters of the U.S. in conjunction with construction projects proposed in Milford, Conn. This work is proposed in the Housatonic River on Milford Point Road in Milford.

  • Permitting takes center stage in September for the World Equestrian Games

    The World Equestrian Games (WEG) which are administered by the Federation Equestre International (FEI), the worldwide governing body of equestrian sport, is the major international championship event for the eight core equestrian disciplines of show jumping, dressage, and para-equestrian dressage, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and reining. The Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) at Tryon Resort in Tryon, North Carolina will host FEI WEG from September 11-23, 2018. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Wilmington District staff in the Asheville Regulatory Field Office have worked diligently with TIEC and its consultants over the last five years to permit the site in anticipation of this world-class event.

  • Vicksburg District selects chief for the Programs Management Branch

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District has selected Alainna O’Bannon as Chief of its Programs Management Branch of the Programs and Project Management Division.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice No. SWL 18-46 Revised Lock Closure Notice-Change of Location, Toad Suck Lock (No. 8) NM 155.9

    MKARNS - The previous lock closure (as noted in Nav Notice SWL 18-42) for Arthur V. Ormond Lock and Dam (No. 9) NM 176.9 has been changed to Toad Suck Lock and Dam (No.8).

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urges residents to heed regulatory requirements during storm cleanup

    WILMINGTON, N.C. –   As people clean up their properties in the aftermath of the storm events, U.S.