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  • Middle East District awards three contracts for facilities at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan

    WINCHESTER, Va. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District has awarded three contracts

  • Bass Pro Shop signs Memorandum of Understanding with Corps

    A pen, a piece of paper and four signatures captured years of service to environmental causes, months of planning and the beginning of a partnership a life time in the making on Aug. 7, 2012, at the Strategic Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Ark. John Morris, owner and founder of Bass Pro Shops, joined Maj. Gen. John W. Peabody, commander, Mississippi Valley Division, Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Kula, commander, Southwestern Division, and Col. Anthony C. Funkhouser, commander, Northwestern Division, in Little Rock to sign a Memorandum of Understanding covering a large portion of the south central states including Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

  • McNary Dam offers Washington Fish View Room, NavLock tours during September

    The natural resources management staff at McNary Lock and Dam will offer tours of the Washington Fish View Room and the navigation lock on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m., beginning Saturday, Sept. 1, through Sunday Sept. 30, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials at the dam announced today.

  • Visiting IWR economist departing District

    Dr. Wen-Huei Chang, a water resources economist from the Institute of Water Services, left the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Aug. 22 after working with three of the District’s divisions on temporary assignment for nearly five months.

  • 17 Central Valley levee systems lose eligibility for federal rehab assistance

    A total of 17 levee systems in or near Sacramento, Stockton, Chester, Knights Landing and Gustine are now ineligible for federal rehabilitation assistance after a temporary agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of California extending eligibility for deficient levees expired in June.

  • Quick thinking, experience, teamwork aid in rescue of two below Center Hill Dam

    Quick-thinking, experience and teamwork of individuals at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Center Hill Dam aided in the rescue of two people Aug. 16, 2012 after their boat capsized while fishing in turbulent tail waters during sluice gate releases.

  • Lower Mississippi River would be four feet less mighty without Twin Rivers

    The lower Mississippi River would be four feet less mighty if not for the water storage reservoirs along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and their tributaries that provide a stream of water management benefits.

  • Workforce Recruitment Program Summer Hire Finds Success with USACE

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District's first experience hiring a recent graduate with a disability proves that talent comes in many forms.

  • HILLSDALE LAKE - National Public Lands Day - Fish Habitat Project

    On Sept. 28-29, the Corps of Engineers and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism will be constructing fish habitat.

  • Colorado Lagoon takes second step toward restoration

    The third and final phase, anticipated to occur in the next five years, will construct an open water conveyance between the lagoon and the adjacent Marine Stadium Park, and the Pacific Ocean, to reestablish a more natural tidal flow.