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  • Army Corps announces F.E. Walter Dam water release schedule

    The U.S. Army Corps Engineers’ Philadelphia District released the 2014 Flow Management Plan for the

  • Bridging the Gap at East Lynn

    Thanks to composite materials and a bridge rehabilitation project, a badly rusted span providing access to an East Lynn Lake campground has been saved from possible demolition. The span will open to traffic in May and should serve campers for decades to come.

  • Spring Cleaning at Sutton

    It’s the same story we all face every spring – you have to clean up the mess winter leaves behind. The story is the same at the dams operated by the Corps of Engineers. Winter floods wash down quite a bit of drift and debris, which ends up directly behind the dam structure. Some of the drift is man-made trash, but mostly it’s made up of tree limbs and other vegetation.

  • Powered by the Sun

    Photovoltaics technologies have been deployed to eight Huntington District lakes largely due to the efforts of Denis Chabot of the Readiness Branch of Operations. Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors. Such power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material.

  • A Gathering of Eagles

    Three members of the Huntington District traveled to Illinois along the Mississippi River to take part in a Value Engineering Study on the Marseilles Dam - and ran into surprising weather and an unexpected sight.

  • Clean Sweep at Dewey Lake

    A group of 275 volunteers gathered at Dewey Lake in Kentucky on March 15, 2014, to take part in the annual “Operation Clean Sweep” event.

  • MEDIA ADVISORY - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fiscal 2015 Civil Works budget press conference scheduled

    The United States Army Corps of Engineers’ press conference to release details of President Obama’s Fiscal 2015 Budget for the Army’s Civil Works program is scheduled for Tuesday, March 4, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

  • Army Corps announces F.E. Walter Dam water release schedule

    The U.S. Army Corps Engineers’ Philadelphia District released the 2014 Flow Management Plan for the Francis E. Walter Dam in White Haven, Penn.

  • 14-011 Prototype passage structure eases lampreys’ upstream journey

    UMATILLA, Ore. -- Pacific lampreys migrating up the Columbia River will find their route past McNary Lock and Dam a bit easier to travel, thanks to a prototype lamprey-passage structure installed in the downstream end of the Oregon shore fish ladder, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials announced today.

  • Corps of Engineers reminds everyone that public comments for the proposed PolyMet project closes March 13

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with the U.S. Forest Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, are reminding everyone that the NorthMet Mining Project and Land Exchange Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement public comment period will end March 13.