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  • Corps of Engineers works on relationship building with Nashville mayor

    OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (Jan. 14, 2016) – Corps of Engineers officials led Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on a tour of Old Hickory Dam today and provided her with an overview of the district’s missions, which include flood risk management, navigation, hydropower, emergency management, and recreation.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 16-08 Lock 8 - Lock Reopened

    MKRNS - Toad Suck Ferry Lock (No. 8) NM 155.9 has reopened to Navigation traffic. The lock was closed due to high flows on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The flows have now dropped to safe levels to operate the lock.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice SWL 16-07 Lock 2 - Reopened

    MKARNS - Lock No. 2 (NM 13.3) has reopened to Navigation traffic. The lock was closed due to a projected backflow of the Arkansas Post Canal caused by the rising water elevation of the Mississippi River. The water elevations have now dropped to safe levels

  • The Corps feasibility study – finding a balanced solution

    How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, right? That one-liner serves as a metaphor for how an incredibly complex task can be accomplished by stating a goal, gathering facts, initiating action and formulating an overall plan from a series of achievable objectives using available resources. That also describes how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a feasibility study for prospective projects, though we’d work hard to avoid harming an actual elephant.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in Alexandria trains Veterans in archaeological curation, prepares them for future

    The Veterans Curation Program provides five months of paid, intensive archaeological curation training to recently-separated Veterans, using collections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Veterans are not only helping the Corps rehabilitate vast archaeological collections to museum standards to aid in future research but are also learning important career-building skills. The VCP laboratory in Alexandria held an open house Jan. 12, 2016, so the 12 employed Veterans could demonstrate their work in archiving and artifacts and discuss how the program is helping them to prepare for the future.

  • Army Corps announces the completion of maintenance dredging in Flushing Bay and Creek, NY

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, recently completed the Flushing Bay and Creek Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance Dredging Project, with the removal of approximately 135,000 cubic yards of dredged material.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, celebrates 150 years

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is celebrating its sesquicentennial throughout 2016. The district marks Aug. 17, 1866, as its birthday.

  • Soo Locks closed for the season – will undertake winter maintenance

    DETROIT – (Jan. 14, 2016) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, announces the Soo

  • President appoints Brig. Gen. Hill to Mississippi River Commission

    DALLAS—Brig. Gen. David C. Hill, commander of the Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of

  • Corps to host government contracts meeting at Wichita State

    TULSA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District will host an informational meeting at Wichita State University to discuss upcoming Project Consolidated Maintenance Contract opportunities at Marion KS and other locations in Kansas, Feb. 3, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. The Tulsa District’s Kansas Area Office and Small Business Directorate, in a joint effort with the Kansas Procurement Technical Assistance Center, will hold the meeting to educate contractors and small businesses about government contract opportunities in Kansas. These service contracts typically include; mowing of public use areas, dam embankments, project office complexes, and other unimproved areas on project lands. Additional opportunities include janitorial work, cleaning of park facilities such as toilets, picnic and camping sites, grounds keeping, refuse collection and disposal, pumping of septic tanks and vaults; herbicide application. Construction opportunities will also be discussed. The event will be held at: WSU Metroplex Room 132 29th & Oliver 5015 East 29th St. N. Wichita, KS Contractors and business owners interested in attending the meeting can register at www.kansasptac.org.