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  • 15-009 Lower Granite Dam closed to vehicle crossings

    POMEROY, Wash. – Public vehicle access across Lower Granite Dam is closed until further notice, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials at the Walla Walla District announced today. One of the bridge pier foundations for the Almota-Ferry Road leading to the south-shore vehicle entrance across the dam was compromised yesterday during construction activities of the Juvenile Fish Facility’s primary dewatering structure. Therefore, the Corps restricted use of the bridge to minimize unnecessary risk to the public.

  • A Blast From the Past

    This archive photo offers a view of Lock 18, a wicket lock and dam on the Ohio River between Marietta, OH, and Parkersburg, W.Va. This view is from the West Virginia side. The lock was replaced by the Belleville Locks and Dam.

  • Reservoir system prepared for 2015 runoff season; previously stored flood waters evacuated

    Monthly Missouri River Water Management Report for February 2015. Updates on weather conditions, snow pack, reservoir levels and release forecast.

  • Arkabutla Lake Hosts Annual Fish Habitat Day

    VICKSBURG, Miss… The public is invited to participate in the annual Fish Habitat Day to be held February 21, 2015 at Arkabutla Lake. This annual event will be the hauling of discarded Christmas trees to the bottom of the lake and stake beds in the coves to create and improve fish habitat at Arkabutla Lake.

  • Middle East Districts kicks off Leadership Development Program in the Field

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District recently kicked off Leadership Development I in the Field, marking the first time the program has been held for field offices within the District’s area of responsibility.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $808,139 contract to dredge Port Mansfield

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 6, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract modification in the amount of $808,139 to Orion Marine Inc., to conduct maintenance dredging at the channel to Port Mansfield between the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the entrance to the port, a distance of approximately one mile.

  • Museum dedicated to transportation of Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

    COLUMBUS, Miss. (Feb. 6, 2015) – Thirty years after the dedication of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, officials cut another ribbon today dedicating a museum that provides education outreach and features the value of transportation within the historical inland passageway built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1972 to 1984.

  • Huntsville Center Furnishings Program replacing Army administration furniture in Republic of Korea

    At 82 U.S. Army facilities on installations across the South Korean peninsula, contractors are busy replacing more than 8,000 administrative desks, chairs and filing cabinets in one of the largest furniture projects ever taken on by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Military Integration Division's Furnishings Program.

  • Vicksburg District Hosts 3rd Annual Math Competition

    Vicksburg, Miss… The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District and the Vicksburg Chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers sponsored a math competition for 59 students from Porter's Chapel Academy, Scholastic Academy, St. Aloysius Catholic School, Warren Central Junior High, and Vicksburg Junior High.

  • President's FY16 Budget for USACE Civil Works released

    Galveston, Texas (Feb. 5, 2015) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District will receive new feasibility funding for the Houston Ship Channel and Coastal Texas studies; continued funding for the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay study; construction funding for Addicks and Barker Dams and Greens Bayou in Houston, as well as continued Operation and Maintenance funding for the Texas waterways in the president’s fiscal year 2016 budget for the Corps’ Civil Works program.