6 Feb 2012

USACE continued contracting and construction momentum

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District-South continued to meet its contracting and construction goals set for fiscal year 2012 during January. The South District exceeded first quarter goals and is on track to meet the second quarter goals as well.

6 Feb 2012

Corps to hold public meeting to discuss re-burial of remains disinterred from Bonnet Carré Spillway’s historic cemeteries

NEW ORLEANS, LA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District will host a public meeting

6 Feb 2012

USACE Galveston reopens J.J. Mayes Wildlife Trace

WALLISVILLE, Texas (Feb. 6, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, reopened the J.J. Mayes Wildlife Trace at the Wallisville Lake Project Feb. 1, 2012, in Chambers County, Texas.

6 Feb 2012

Corps’ St. Paul District commander in North Dakota Feb. 8

Price will be in Fargo to meet with the leaders of the cities of Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., to discuss moving forward on the design of a proposed diversion channel for the Fargo/Moorhead metropolitan area.

3 Feb 2012

Corps to temporarily close Reedy Point Bridge; preventive safety repairs to be completed

The U.S. Army Corps Engineers’ Philadelphia District will begin preventive safety repairs on the Reedy Point Bridge, a cantilever truss bridge that carries two lanes of Delaware Route 9 over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, in April 2012.

3 Feb 2012

Nashville District holds its last lock operator training graduation

The commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recognized the end of an era as he presented nine students from its lock operator class with graduation certificates at J. Percy Priest Lake, Jan. 31, 2012.

3 Feb 2012

USACE talks FUDS with Southern Arizona residents

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District began clearing work Jan. 30 following a public involvement meeting the District hosted Jan. 26 to discuss the state of several of the former Williams Field Bomb Target Ranges.

3 Feb 2012

Eagles soar high overhead Dale Hollow Lake bird watchers

Dale Hollow Lake park rangers assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville district provided several free eagle watch tours to the public to showcase the eagles that make the lake their home every winter.

3 Feb 2012

Corps to extend water releases from Lake Okeechobee

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has announced it will extend water releases from Lake Okeechobee for at least another week in an effort to offset rising saltwater levels in the Caloosahatchee River.

3 Feb 2012

Corps repairing Ice Harbor cooling units

The Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently identified metal tubing failures as the likely source of several inadvertent oil leaks from power transformer heat exchangers or “cooling units” at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the Snake River.