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  • Pleasant Creek Recreation Area Closed

    Bellevue, IA - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Project announces that it has closed the following recreation area due to the rising floodwaters. Pleasant Creek Recreation Area located at 19995 Highway 52, Bellevue Iowa, 52031.

  • New England federal recreation areas to open

    CONCORD, Mass. – Most recreation areas at the 31 federal flood risk management reservoirs in New

  • Annual report published on Vermont In-Lieu Fee program for aquatic resources habitat in Vermont

    CONCORD, Mass. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District recently made available for

  • Wetland ‘bank’ in Chehalis River basin gets green light to operate

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Lewis and Thurston counties have certified the construction and operation of a privately owned wetland mitigation “bank” on Big Hanaford Creek, a floodplain tributary to the Skookumchuck River in the Chehalis River drainage basin.

  • New England federal recreation areas to open

    Most recreation areas at the 31 federal flood risk management reservoirs in New England operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open to the public in mid-to-late May 2013. Some recreation areas in Connecticut will open in late April.

  • Skiing Shrinks Employee's Impression In Snow

    Overdressed and sweating in the frosty Alaskan weather, she falls over into the snow. Her elongated feet come unglued from the grooves they were sliding back-and-forth in. Standing up on two legs becomes an unexpected challenge when learning to cross-country ski. After solving the puzzle of entangled skis and poles, she presses on.

  • Federally recognized tribes sign BPNM Floodway programmatic agreement

    Six federally recognized tribes have signed the new Birds Point/New Madrid Floodway Programmatic Agreement (PA). Two tribes, the Quapaw Tribe and the Delaware Nation, signed the PA during a signing ceremony held at Memphis District Nov. 20, 2012. Three tribes - Osage Nation, the Absentee Shawnee, and the Eastern Shawnee - signed by mail in December 2012, and the Thlopthlocco Creek signed in a ceremony Jan. 18.

  • White River receives National Blueway designation

    The White River and its entire basin became the second watershed to receive designation as a “National Blueway” at a ceremony in Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 9. The first was the Connecticut River; however the White River Watershed is the first to undergo the full nomination, evaluation and recognition process.

  • Facelift for Bedford Veterans Administration hospital

    The New England District and its contractor recently completed a much needed facelift to Building #2 at the Veterans Administration hospital, also known as The Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, in Bedford, Mass.

  • President's Fiscal 2014 Budget for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Seattle District released

    The President’s Budget for fiscal 2014 (FY14) includes $4.826 billion in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including more than $46 million for projects in Seattle District. The FY14 budget is is offset in part by a proposal to cancel $100 million in unobligated carryover of funding appropriated prior to fiscal year 2013.