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  • Mobile District’s Keating earns ‘Cost Engineer of the Year’ award

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Senior Cost Engineer Michael L. Keating has earned the national-level Corps “Cost Engineer of the Year” award.

  • Construction continues on Marysville Ring Levee

    Construction of a small but necessary section of the Marysville Ring Levee is underway and should be completed by mid-August 2017, maintaining momentum on the project to lessen flood risk in the northern California town of Marysville. The current construction was funded at approximately $825,000 and the site is located in the center of a railway intersection known as Binney Junction, adjacent to the Catholic Cemetery of Marysville.

  • Public meetings set to discuss proposed highway modifications at French Gulch

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has released its proposal for the modification design of State Route 155 at the French Gulch Recreation Area located at Isabella Lake in Kern County. The proposed modification outlined in a draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment is designed to improve traffic operations at the intersection of SR 155 and Daedrich Ranch Road.

  • Road across Gavins Point Dam closed July 19.

    Crest Road, the road that crosses the Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, S.D., will be closed 8 a.m. through noon on Wednesday, July 19 to perform maintenance on the spillway. The public is asked to plan on an alternate route of travel during this time.

  • Annual Gavins Point Project Duck Blind Permit Applications accepted now through August 16

    The 2017 Annual Lewis and Clark Lake Duck Blind Permit application period is now open through August 16, 2017. Applications are available online or may be picked-up in person at the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center located at 55245 Highway 121, Crofton, Nebraska.

  • Veterans Honored During Memorial Day Ceremony at Coralville Lake

    In communities across the country people gather on Memorial Day to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. military. For the past 28 years the staff from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, along with representatives from several Johnson County, Iowa, veterans’ organizations, have been coming together on Memorial Day to honor living veterans who nearly lost their lives.

  • District’s River Operations Chief Retires

    VICKSBURG, MISS… The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District’s Chief of River Operations retired recently. After more than 23 years of service to the federal government, Tommy Hengst retired June 30, 2017. Hengst’s retirement brought closure to a successful career spent serving the public with the Vicksburg District.

  • CORPS TO CEASE POWER GENERATION AT TABLE ROCK DAM TO ALLOW FOR VEHICLES TO BE REMOVED FROM LAKE TANEYCOMO

    BRANSON, Mo. – At the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources the Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District will cease power generation through Table Rock Dam from 6 a.m. until noon July 14 and 15 to help facilitate the removal of vehicles swept into Lake Taneycomo during the June flooding event.

  • Summer school goes Arctic at Army lab

    HANOVER, N.H. (July 12, 2017) – Twelve rising seniors and two college interns from the Advanced

  • Corps Engineers STEM message for college bound students

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 12, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has partnered with the Tennessee State University College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science Department to mentor science, technology, engineering and math students during a four-week National Summer Transportation Institute program June 20 through July 2 on the campus of TSU.