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  • WILSON LAKE: Burn Ban Lifted

    The Russell County Commission has lifted the emergency burn ban ordinance.

  • STOCKTON LAKE: Stockton Lake Cleanup Event

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Stockton Lake Project partnered with the Kansas City Frogman Dive Club to host the 16th Annual Stockton Lake Cleanup Event Saturday, September 8, 2012. This event was held in conjunction with Federal National Public Lands Day and Missouri Stream team.

  • Engineering the Future: USACE Designs, Builds DoDEA’s 21st Century Schools

    For years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has collaborated with the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) on the designs of education facilities. As studies emerged showing that evidence-based design measurably improves students’ academic performance, DoDEA approached USACE to help them develop new schools – 21st century schools - that would foster more productive learning environments.

  • Former USACE deputy commanding general retires after 37 years of service

    Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple, former deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retired from the U.S. Army on Aug. 31 after serving the nation for more than 37 years.

  • Spotlight on USACE Galveston District's Adrian Ramos

    PORT ISABEL, Texas - When U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District Civil Engineer Adrian Ramos decided to pursue a career in engineering, he knew his ideal choice of employment would allow him to remain hands-on in the field. Armed with distinct goals and a passion to serve, Ramos found a natural fit with the USACE Galveston District’s Engineering and Construction Division.

  • LRL awards largest environmental contract to date for Lockbourne Landfill cover

    The Louisville District awarded a $9.2 million contract—-the largest environmental construction

  • Three down, three to go

    The catamaran barge lowers the third of six 2,000-ton lower pier shells into the Ohio River Sept. 8

  • Corps completes 14-year environmental cleanup at Marion Engineer Depot

    After more than 14 years of investigative and cleanup activities, the former Marion Engineer Depot

  • How low can we go?

    Last spring we were battling some of the worst flooding on record from one end of our District to the other. This year the opposite is true with drought and extreme low water plaguing the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

  • Memphis District teams respond to Hurricane Isaac

    Taking a path that eerily resembled Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2012 storm named Isaac formed in the Caribbean in late August, rapidly grew to hurricane strength, then put greater New Orleans directly in its crosshairs. Isaac made landfall in southern Louisiana on Aug. 28 – almost seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina’s Aug. 29, 2005, assault.