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  • CORPS OPENS SPILLWAY GATES AT BEAVER DAM, CONTINUES RELEASES THOUGH GENERATOR

    ROGERS, Ark. – The Little Rock District of the Army Corps of Engineers will open the spillway gates one foot at Beaver Dam this morning.

  • 17-067 Significant river debris within Little Goose Dam juvenile fish bypass system screens cause fish loss during this year’s unusually high river flows

    DAYTON, Wash. – Significant river debris caused by unusually high Snake River flows damaged vertical barrier fish screens (VBS) in Little Goose Lock and Dam’s juvenile bypass system (JBS). Several damaged VBS screens entrapped juvenile steelhead and salmon between the VBS mesh and metal “porosity plates,” which control the flow of water.” Debris damage caused 1,800 juvenile fish to perish as they were exposed to excessively turbulent water conditions. Of those 1,800 fish lost, 1,438 were hatchery steelhead. About 10 million juvenile fish migrate downstream this time of year at Little Goose.

  • Pipeline contractor reports release of bentonite slurry at Corps’ Loyalhanna Lake

    PITTSBURGH -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh is alerting Loyalhanna Lake visitors that a Sunoco pipeline contractor, drilling adjacent to Corps property, has reported three releases of bentonite slurry this week near Loyalhanna Lake.

  • Oceanside Harbor dredging project continues

    Dredging in Oceanside Harbor federal entrance channel continues as Manson Construction Company, the project contractor, reports today having removed about 187,000 cubic yards of material as part of the annual effort to maintain safe navigation in the port.

  • Chittenden Locks help juvenile salmon on journey to Puget Sound

    SEATTLE – Studies have shown it’s no easy task for juvenile salmon to make it through the Lake Washington basin to Puget Sound and one of the obstacles they must pass is the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard. Although salmon have been navigating the 100-year-old Locks for as long as it’s been operating, studies in the 1990s indicated they were having a difficult time. The Lock’s primary passage routes were deep in the water column, not easily found by juvenile salmon which stay closer to the surface.

  • Willoughby and Vicinity Project Coming to a Close

    Crews are finishing up work along the Willoughby and Vicinity Storm Damage Reduction Project. The result of the project leaves Norfolk with a beach that is higher and 60 feet wider improving coastal storm protection and providing more recreational area.

  • USACE Deputy Commanding General visits Bluestone Dam

    MG Jackson, USACE Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, visited Bluestone Dam to learn more about its operations and the ongoing Dam Safety Assurance (DSA) Mega Project.

  • Inland Waterways Users Board Meeting Number 83

    The Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) Meeting No. 83 occurred in the Huntington District area of operations. This meeting included a field tour on 16 May 2017 of Greenup and Winfield Locks and Dam on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The IWUB is an industry Federal advisory committee established by Section 302 of Public Law 99-662. The eleven member Board represents all geographic areas on the fuel-taxed inland waterways system of the United States.

  • Huntsville Center’s Braun works to save Mosul Dam

    He’s a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a history of stepping up to lend a hand after American communities face the worst. Now Chad Braun, a civilian civil engineer and senior project engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is deployed thousands of miles from home to engage in a fight to prevent the worst from happening.

  • STEM students learn about engineering on dam tour

    OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (May 18, 2017) – A team of engineering professionals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently welcomed area high school and college students for a Corps career overview and tour of the Old Hickory Lock and Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn.