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  • Recently published handbook on coral reef impacts

    A team of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' regulators and planners worked for several years with the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Injury and Mitigation Working Group in the development of a new recently published handbook entitled "Handbook on Coral Reef Impacts: Avoidance, Minimization, Compensatory Mitigation, and Restoration", dated December 2016.

  • Celebrating National Engineers Week, Omaha District continues to serve

    OMAHA, NE. — In celebration of National Engineers Week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District hosted a panel on the engineering profession in coordination with the Society of American Military Engineers, student chapter, on the University of Nebraska, Omaha campus. Additionally, representatives of the District attended the National Society of Black Engineers Mixer on the UNO campus, the Omaha STEM Ecosystem Launch, and the Annual Engineers Banquet, held last week, sponsored by the Engineer Round Table, a group comprised of more than 20 engineer organizations.

  • USACE, Mississippi projects converge to yield mutual benefits

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, is scheduled to wrap up the Pascagoula River Leg Deepening Project in March. The project never would have happened without a little ingenuity and a willingness to work with others.

  • Great Electrifying Event lights up Bonneville Lock & Dam

    Bonneville Lock and Dam is hosting its annual Great Electrifying Event, a full day of hands-on activities, videos and tours April 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Washington Shore Visitor Center.

  • Real Estate team lauded for groundbreaking land exchange process

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 24, 2017) -- The “Center Hill Land Exchange Real Estate Delivery Team” recently received a team achievement award for its groundbreaking land exchange process from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division.

  • Corps of Engineers announces plans to perform emergency repair work to Barcelona Harbor

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District, will repair the section of the Barcelona Harbor west breakwater damaged by storms in the fall of 2015, as soon as weather conditions allow and do not pose significant safety risks to the crew tasked with performing the work.

  • Big Bend Master Plan Meeting Rescheduled

    OMAHA, Neb. – The Corps has rescheduled the Big Bend Master Plan public scoping meeting for Wednesday, March 8, 2017, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Big Bend Project Office, 33573 N Shore Road, Fort Thompson, SD 57325. The comment period has been extended to March 27, 2017.

  • Eau Galle Recreation and Dam using geothermal power to go green

    SPRING VALLEY, Wis. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District’s Eau Galle Recreation and Dam is going green by using geothermal energy.

  • Soo Locks historic images brought to life

    For years, several hundred images from construction and operations of the historic Soo Locks stayed

  • Contractors on pace to finish 5 SHEP-related features in 2017

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – To say Spencer Davis has a few irons in the fire is an understatement. As the senior project manager for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, or SHEP, Davis manages the multimillion-dollar project that has eight separate environmental mitigation features outside of the actual harbor and entrance channel deepening. Now more than two years in, contractors continue to push the project forward on several fronts and are expected to wrap up four contracts this year.