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  • USACE Galveston District’s Employee Spotlight on Rob Thomas

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 2, 2017) – Rob Thomas’ fascination with the coast began at 17 years of age when he earned his PADI open water scuba diving certification. Eventually, his love of the water led him to pursue a career in coastal protection and restoration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District.

  • Army Corps studying alternatives for upper Allegheny, Monongahela navigation facilities

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District has initiated a study to look at alternatives for the future of low commercial use navigation facilities on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers near Pittsburgh, Pa. and Morgantown, W.Va., respectively.

  • Liaison officer presented challenge coin

    The Honorable Katherine G. Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy &

  • Flood of ’97 overwhelms Wahpeton/Breckenridge

    (originally published in the October-November 2007 Crosscurrents) Engineering division’s Matt Bray and Tim Grundhoffer fought two swiftly rising rivers, blizzard conditions and extreme temperatures only to be overcome by conditions beyond their control and to lose portions of a town not just once, but twice, in the same flood. Bray, a geotech engineer, and Grundhoffer, a structural engineer, were assigned as flood subarea engineers in Wahpeton, N.D., and Breckenridge, Minn., during the 1997 floods that wreaked havoc across the Red River Valley. Although they worked together closely, Bray worked primarily in Wahpeton and Grundhoffer in Breckenridge. Pete Corkin, from Rock Island District, assisted them.

  • Memories linger of disaster at East Grand Forks/Grand Forks

    (first published in Crosscurrents Oct.-Nov. 2007 edition) The district, the locals, the volunteers –they all put up a tremendous fight, but ultimately the Red River of the North rose too high, too fast. And although it’s been 10 years since the spring flooding in the Red River Valley destroyed much of Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn., the sights, the sounds, the emotions of this event linger for those who were there. "I can still picture those breaches like it was yesterday,” said Neil Schwanz, a geo-tech engineer. “I can picture myself standing [there], watching all this happen.”

  • Arkabutla Lake Hosts 15th Annual Fish Habitat Day

    VICKSBURG, Miss… Team members of the Corps’ Arkabutla Lake partnered with biologists from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) to host the 15th annual Fish Habitat Day at Arkabutla Lake. The event consisted of placing Christmas trees as fish habitat structures in the dry lake bed to improve the fish habitat at Arkabutla Lake.

  • Corps’ Vidalia Area Office Contract Administration Expert Retires

    Vicksburg, Miss…The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District area engineer for the Vidalia Area Office recently retired. For 33 years, Richard A. Jones served the Corps with distinction and honor and is considered a subject matter expert in construction contract administration.

  • Neptune LNG seeks permit to work in U.S. waters to decommission deepwater LNG port off Marblehead

    CONCORD, Mass. – Neptune LNG, LLC is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New

  • Corps clarifies word revision for reissuance of the New Hampshire general permit for minimal impact activities

    CONCORD, Mass. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is clarifying the federal

  • Corps' technical experts to discuss Suffolk superfund site clean-up efforts

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host their quarterly public meeting regarding restoration efforts at the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Thursday. The Restoration Advisory Board meeting; which will take place at the Courtyard Marriott, located at 8060 Harbour View Blvd. in Suffolk from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.; will feature discussions regarding the latest cleanup progress.