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  • Corps of Engineers reaches drawdown levels at Mississippi River Headwaters reservoirs

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, completed the drawdown of the Mississippi River Headwaters reservoirs this week in preparation for potential flooding due to the spring melt.

  • Discovering a steamboat relic of Missouri River trade

    When you think of shipwrecks, it might be pirates, the ocean, sunken treasure and the stuff of movie–style wonder. But the Mighty Mo’ tells a tale with hundreds of shipwrecks of all sizes along its length. For the Corps, there are several responsibilities: regulatory permitting for construction in areas where a discovery may occur, the need to mitigate a construction project to address a discovery and the need to protect and respect the significance of a discovery among others.

  • Corps releases draft environmental assessment for Lake Ashtabula drawdown increase near Valley City, N.D.

    ST. PAUL, MINN. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, released a draft environmental assessment on a proposed change to the Baldhill Dam Water Control Manual that would allow increased drawdowns at Lake Ashtabula, near Valley City, N.D., April 3.

  • Harry S. Truman Lake to adjust park availability and season

    WARSAW, Mo.—The Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will reduce park operations at Harry S. Truman Lake during the 2013 recreation season due to projected budget reductions and under utilization of some facilities.

  • Final bucket marks completion of Port of LA channel deepening

    Standing on the fantail of the USS Iowa, dignitaries watched as a dredge lifted the final bucket of material from the water and emptied it into an adjacent barge, marking the end of a $370 million channel deepening project at the Port of Los Angeles April 3.

  • State, Corps study: One in five Californians faces flood threat

    One in five Californians lives in a flood plain and nearly everyone in California is at risk from flooding. That’s the warning delivered by a new, comprehensive report on flood risk throughout the state, developed by the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  • Court opens up niche space at Arlington

    Work is wrapping up on the new 12.9-million-dollar, 62,820-square-foot Columbarium Court 9, which is slated to be the final columbarium court in this section of the cemetery. The new facility increases the cemetery’s inurnment capacity by 20,296 niche spaces.

  • Public Meeting Scheduled for Indian Cave Shallow Water Habitat Project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will hold a public scoping meeting on Monday, Apr. 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Shubert Community Building, located on the corner of 5th and Main Streets, in Shubert, Neb. The purpose of the meeting is to seek public input on the development of potential restoration and mitigation measures for a proposed shallow water habitat project at Indian Cave State Park.

  • Court opens up niche space at Arlington

    Contractors are placing the finishing touches and final pieces of marble on the newest structure at Arlington National Cemetery.

  • New engineer dive team keeps whirlwind pace

    Four countries, three continents, eight cities and two islands … this hectic schedule is that of the