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  • CORPS LIFTS SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ARKANSAS RIVER

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Army Corps of Engineers has lifted the small craft advisory for the Arkansas River. Advisories are issued when flows reach 70,000 cubic feet per second. Even though flows have receded below that threshold, Corps officials urge boaters to always use caution when on the river.

  • Park Rangers bring students on the ‘Corps of Discovery’

    Park Rangers Viola Bramel and Claudia Hixson traveled to the Alice Barrows Elementary School in

  • Cape Cod Canal Dredging and Town Neck beach sand placement complete

    The maintenanceand advance maintenance dredging of the Cape Cod Canal and the sand placementonto

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces changes in recreation day use fees

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District announced today a change to recreation day use fees charged for boat launches and swimming beaches managed by USACE.

  • LRH Integrates USACE capabilities to support Interagency objectives

    ​Huntington District’s Cost Engineering Section developed an Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) for the Electrical Substation per Technical Direction Letter (TDL) Task 40 for the Department of Energy-National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE-NNSA)/Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) Project Office (UPO) which requested the support.

  • Oyster restoration delayed in the Tred Avon River

    The Baltimore District announced Feb. 2, 2016, that it has delayed oyster restoration in the Tred Avon River at the request of its non-federal cost-share sponsor, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. This delay affects 8 acres of reef restoration that was part of an initial 24-acre project performed in spring 2015. Additionally, the delay will impact 20 - 30 acres of shallow-water reef restoration planned for a contract award in summer 2016 with construction taking place in winter 2016/2017. As a result of this delay, the Baltimore District plans to send a portion of its available oyster restoration funding in 2016 to the Corps’ Norfolk District for Bay restoration in Virginia.

  • LRH Technical Suport Branch Monitors Movement of Huntington Floodwall Pump Station

    Aaron Ansell from the Huntington District’s Geospatial Section sets control targets for the Trimble V-10 Terrestrial Photogrammetry unit to monitor Huntington Floodwall 11th Street Pump Station Subsidence. Staff from the Huntington District’s Technical Support Branch made a second 3-D scan of the project site to monitor the pump station and surrounding wall sections for continued movement.

  • 16-002 Corps awards 2 navigation lock repair contracts; work to occur during system-wide 2016-2017 extended lock outage

    LOWER SNAKE RIVER, Wash. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded two contracts to a Deer Park, Washington, company to upgrade the hoist machinery for the downstream navigation lock gates at Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor dams on the lower Snake River.

  • A generalist finds her niche in the Corps

    As a “generalist” working amid a building full of technical specialists, Sara Schultz has capitalized on her personal perspective to become a highly successful planner for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

  • Mile Point construction moves forward; boaters should use caution

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District asks the public to use caution in the waterways at Mile Point on the St. Johns River. Heavy construction is ongoing in the Chicopit Bay and Helen Cooper Floyd Park area near Mayport Naval Station.