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  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers extends expedited emergency permitting procedures in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District extended expedited emergency permitting procedures in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to support the continued recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria. These alternative procedures remain in effect until June 21, 2018.

  • Chittenden Locks small chamber closing 2 weeks for annual maintenance

    SEATTLE – The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks small chamber will close to marine traffic noon, March 5 through 5 p.m., March 16. Crews will conduct maintenance and safety inspections during the small chamber closure. Foot traffic will not be affected and the large lock will continue around-the-clock operations for vessels. Lock wall staff will get commercial traffic through as quickly as possible.

  • 18-021 ‘Spring Aboard’ – Boaters urged to get educated before boating season

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Natural resource managers and park rangers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District want to remind boaters – the temperature may still be cool outside, but it is a perfect time of year to start getting prepared for the boating season.

  • Corps authorizes Lyman floodplain study

    SEATTLE – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials approved a Flood Plain Management Study for the town of Lyman, Washington, and provided the Seattle District $40,000 to complete it. Three Lyman homes were deemed unsafe by local officials in November following erosion along the Skagit River during a flood November 23-25. Town and Skagit County officials requested Corps of Engineers’ assistance during the flood but public infrastructure was not threatened, a requirement for USACE aid.

  • USACE awards seepage barrier contract as part of dike rehabilitation

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District has awarded a contract to construct several miles of seepage barrier at the Herbert Hoover Dike (HHD) as part of its ongoing rehabilitation project for the earthen structure that surrounds Lake Okeechobee.

  • Draft supplemental environmental assessment for cultural interpretive center available for public review

    A draft supplemental environmental assessment for proposed construction changes at the cultural interpretive center located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in McKenzie County, North Dakota is currently available for public review. The draft supplemental EA evaluates the environmental impacts of increasing the project footprint by approximately four acres. Comments must be postmarked or received no later than March 31, 2018.

  • Camp Ravenna burning grounds repurposed for training ranges

    The Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant Environmental Restoration Team has earned high honors from the

  • Army Corps funds water resource infrastructure work in three Ohio villages

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District announced today that three eastern Ohio villages are receiving more than one million dollars each to assist with water-related environmental infrastructure repair and improvement.

  • Jamie Howard Selected as District’s Supervisor of the Year

    Jamie Howard, chief, Lakes and Assets Branch, was honored as the District’s Supervisor of the Year during the District’s 2017 Annual Award Presentations, Dec. 8, 2017.

  • Road closed over Joe Pool Dam

    FORT WORTH, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has temporarily closed the road over Joe Pool