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  • Corps of Engineers hosted Birthday 5k at Kandahar Airfield

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South, celebrated the Corps of Engineers birthday by sponsoring a 5-kilometer run on Kandahar Airfield, June 16, 2012 to benefit the wounded Warrior Support Center on KAF.

  • Colorado regulatory office has new, energy-efficient home

    The Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building in Grand Junction, Colo. is now on its way to being the first federal building under the U.S. General Services Administration to achieve a net zero energy rating.

  • 'Big bannana boat' Dredge Thompson takes final voyage on Mississippi River

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees and retirees, river residents and those affectionately known as river rats lined the banks of the Upper Mississippi River to see the Dredge William A. Thompson make its final voyage, June 12-13.

  • Corps of Engineers announces upcoming contracts

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 52 construction and service contracts, worth a total of almost $712 million, to award in southern Afghanistan before the end of fiscal year 2012.

  • Project’s Future Looks Bright

    The Virginia Port Authority and the Norfolk District signed an agreement reaffirming Craney Island’s Eastward Expansion project.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website gets new look; Web links changing

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, will soon migrate its public website: http://www.nww.usace.army.mil and all its Web pages to a new look and Web hosting platform. This migration will result in changed Web addresses, which means personal bookmarks may no longer function.

  • Corps' partnership with Trinity River Authority saves time, money

    GALVESTON, Texas (June 18, 2012) – With a rich history of water management, the Trinity River Authority is known for providing services to more than 60 cities in the Trinity River basin and for supplying approximately 60 percent of the water for the City of Houston. But what you might not be aware of is that the TRA partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District in 1977 to issue permits at the Lake Livingston Project, saving permit applicants a substantial amount of time and taxpayers thousands of dollars each year.

  • Update: Corps continues to improve dam safety in Walla Walla District

    The Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is continuing its ongoing effort to improve safety at its dams and dam-related levees throughout the Snake River basin, at McNary Lock and Dam/Lake Wallula on the Columbia River, and at Mill Creek in the Walla Walla River Basin.

  • Mississippi Valley Division Awards Day

    The Mississippi Valley Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, held its annual awards ceremony

  • PIANC USA Wins International Award for “Best Section” at the PIANC 2012 Annual General Assembly

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – June 18, 2012.  At the recent PIANC 2012 Annual General Assembly (AGA) in