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  • Crooked River Lock reopens on time for 2024 season

    The Crooked River Lock in Alanson, Michigan will open today, April 29, for the 2024 recreational boating season after undergoing a series of repairs during the offseason.

  • USACE issues small craft advisory for Arkansas River

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is issuing a small craft advisory for the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System in Arkansas. Heavy rainfall in Eastern Oklahoma over the last two days resulted in Arkansas River flows exceeding 70,000 cubic feet per second at Dardanelle.

  • Federal, state, and local official break ground on the Ascension Parish Water Meter Replacement Project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ascension Parish held a Groundbreaking Ceremony to celebrate the start of the Ascension Parish Water Meter Replacement Project. The project will replace over two thousand water meters across the city of Donaldsonville, Louisiana. A $4.5 million construction contract was awarded to remove and replace existing manually read water meters with remotely read water meters.

  • USACE engineer support team provides expertise, broadens professional experience on European deployment

    Headquartered at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District and staffed with engineering professionals from throughout USACE, the 62nd Forward Engineer Support Team – Advanced, or FEST-A, is one of eight expeditionary teams that provides rapidly deployable engineering capabilities throughout the world. Primarily composed of civilian employees, these critical personnel groups perform infrastructure damage assessments, environmental surveys and building plans in support of the Army’s mission abroad.

  • Dylan Karr: Army soldiers solve the nation’s toughest challenges with USACE

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approximately 37,000 dedicated civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services to customers in more than 130 countries worldwide. Soldiers like U.S. Army Lieutenant Dylan Karr join different districts throughout USACE on a rotational basis and receive hands on engineering experience from the civilian perspective that will help them in their military career. Dylan took a few moments to let us know a little more about him and what he’ll be doing as one of the few “Green Suit” teammates.

  • Small Business are the Backbone of USACE Mission Delivery

    To help deliver the mission the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leverages a unique expertise – small business professionals. Led by the Office of Small Business Programs, their job is to integrate small businesses capabilities into USACE projects. Small business professionals’ mission – to make outreach to small businesses bigger and better, bringing them in to add more value to the projects that the Corps of Engineers works on. To accomplish this task, outreach is being leveraged to lead the small business program into the future.

  • Multi-laboratory project explores ways to deliver manpower, supplies over complex Arctic shorelines

    Earlier this month, Integrated Support for Operations in Polar Seas (ISOPS) team members – comprised of interdisciplinary personnel from ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory – conducted fieldwork in Utqiagvik, Alaska, aimed at accelerating development of environmental support tools for Logistics-Over-The-Shore (LOTS) operations across Arctic coastal boundaries.

  • Corps, Pirates to host PNC Park Water Safety Night 2024

    In partnership with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District will host their “Water Safety Night” at PNC Park, May 11.

  • Youghiogheny River Lake to Host 50th Anniversary Special Recreation Day

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District will host the 50th annual Special Recreation Day at the spillway recreation area of the Youghiogheny River Lake dam, May 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

  • Corps of Engineers provides Maui wildfires recovery update

    Kihei, Hawaiʻi – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues its progress in support of the Maui