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  • USACE Galveston District receives 2013 Corporate Partner Excellence Award

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 7, 2013) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District was selected as the 2013 Corporate Partner Excellence Award recipient by the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University.

  • USACE Galveston District recognized with 7 Kassner Awards

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 7, 2013) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District Public Affairs Office was recognized with six awards from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Herbert A. Kassner Public Affairs Competition.

  • Corps increases water releases from Lake Okeechobee

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District has increased the amount of water flowing from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee River. The new target flow from the lake to the Caloosahatchee Estuary is 1,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) as measured at W.P. Franklin Lock (S-79) near Fort Myers. There are no target releases for the St. Lucie Estuary, although runoff from the St. Lucie Canal will continue to pass through the St. Lucie Lock as needed.

  • PIANC USA Leadership Navigates Training for New Colombia Chapter

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - February 7, 2013.  USACE IWR’s Lillian Almodovar, member of the U.S. Section

  • Corps to discuss Delta Islands and Levees Feasibility Study at public meetings

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is set to host two public meetings this month on its ongoing Delta Islands and Levees Feasibility Study, a cost-shared study with the state of California to address critical water resources issues in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

  • LA District hosts public meeting in Kingman

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District hosted a public meeting Feb. 5 regarding the upcoming Time Critical Removal Action at sites in the former Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range. The purpose of the meeting was to make representatives from the Corps of Engineers available to the public to discuss the soil removal activities of hazardous material associated with the clean up in a portion of the Chaparral Mesa II and New Kingman subdivisions located near the intersection of East Thompson Avenue and Rose Drive.

  • Headwaters reservoirs: Streams, dreams and navigation

    The late 1800s were challenging times for people living in the Midwest. Flour millers in the

  • Army Corps awards $2 million contract for Phase II of Plumb Beach coastal storm risk reduction work in Brooklyn

    NEW YORK – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District has awarded a $2 million contract to Village Dock, Inc., of Port Jefferson, N.Y., to complete the second and final phase of construction at the coastal storm risk reduction project at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn along the Belt Parkway.

  • NAV NOTICE SWL 13-05 MKARNS - TOW HAULAGE OUT OF SERVICE

    COL. C.D. MAYNARD L&D - Tow haulage equipment at Colonel Charles D. Maynard Lock (No. 5) is out of service. Double cut tows will have to be locked the conventional way (without the use of tow haulage).

  • Public provides comments on Gregory Canyon landfill permit application

    ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- Nearly 400 people attended a public hearing Jan. 31 at the California Center for the Arts here on a permit application for the proposed Gregory Canyon landfill near Pala, providing scientific data, historical information and personal perspective, both for and against the controversial project.