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  • Media Advisory: Incoming USACE Charleston District leader assumes command July 11

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Charleston District will welcome its incoming commander at a change of command ceremony. Lt. Col. Todd Mainwaring, the District’s 91st commander, will assume command from Major Patrick Ripton. The ceremony will be officiated by Brig. Gen. Zachary Miller, commanding general, South Atlantic Division, USACE.

  • 45 Years Later, the Engineers Who Faced the Volcano Remember

    When a volcano erupts hurling millions of cubic yards of sediment onto the surrounding area and into local rivers, how does a community deal with it, and where does all that sediment go?

  • June runoff much below average; Navigation flow support decreased slightly after System storage check

    June runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa was 3.3 million acre-feet, 60% of average. The updated 2025 calendar year runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, continues to be below average.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice No. SWL 25-50 Dardanelle Hinged Pool Operation

    To promote beneficial scouring of shoals in the Dardanelle Pool following recent sustained high-water flows, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, will conduct a “Hinged Pool” operation from Thursday, July 10th, 2025, through Wednesday, July 17th, 2025.

  • ERDC and the 109th Airlift Wing team up for aviation first

    ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) has performed decades of research and fieldwork establishing that 55 inches of ice is the thickness required to land an LC-130 (a ski-equipped version of the C-130) for both saltwater ice and freshwater ice. Researchers have long thought that a landing on freshwater ice could be done on much less thick of ice.

  • NOLA Terminal, 24-0873

    To perform facility improvements and modification to the existing facility including replacing existing supports for the conveyor crossing the right descending Mississippi River Levee, vicinity of LS 1246+09, adding a rock berm at Ship Dock 1 along the river bank, and to perform modifications to Ship Dock 1 to include redesign of the levee ramp and approach-way crossing the levee, to install support towers with a pipe-pile foundation for the conveyor system on the batture and river bank, and install a firewater intake structure on the river bank at Myrtle Grove, LA, in Plaquemines Parish.

  • Corps of Engineers awards $3.1 million contract for Lock and Dam 7 outdraft modification project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $3.1 million contract to Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Service Company doing business as Newt Marine Service out of Dubuque, Iowa, on July 2. The construction contract will modify the existing rock weir structure to reduce outdraft conditions at Lock and Dam 7, located near La Crescent, Minnesota.

  • Engineering a Future: Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

    (BUFFALO, N.Y.) July 8, 2025 – Liam Dimick, a student trainee with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has taken a significant step toward his goal of becoming a licensed professional engineer by passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. The 6-hour, 110 question exam has been administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying since 1965.

  • Jacksonville District Construction Team enhances partnerships to support military and civil works missions

    In a discussion with Gene Morisani, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Chief of the Construction Division talks about District Construction Division’s ongoing construction projects in Florida, that primarily focus’ on ecosystem restoration, coastal storm risk management, and navigation improvements that keep this well-oiled machine running.

  • USACE and the City and County of Honolulu to hold public meeting on the Wailupe Stream Flood Risk Management Study

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, in partnership with the City and County of