• Army Corps to Conduct Public Information Meeting to Discuss ongoing Deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel

    NEW YORK –– The Arthur Kill Channel off of Elizabeth, N.J. and north of Shooter's Island is currently being deepened to allow large ships to safely transit the shipping channel to the New York Container Terminal, Staten Island, N.Y. Some areas of the Arthur Kill Channel contain solid rock that is being broken into smaller pieces to be dredged from the channel floor, using a controlled, safe detonation of explosives placed in the underwater rock.
  • Corps of Engineers recognizes Wilson, N.C., contractor for safe work

    St. Paul District, recently honored a contractor for its safe and accident-free work following the 2011 Souris River flood. St. Paul District Commander Michael Price presented Byrd Brothers Emergency Services, L.L.C., with the 2011 Contractor Superior Safety Performance Award in early March.
  • CRREL hosts innovative "Advanced Ice Safety and Response" training

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently provided to Alaska Clean Seas (ACS), an oil spill removal organization (OSRO) based in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a facility for training their oil spill responders.
  • CRREL Polar Researcher Provides a New Look at Old Ice

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's (CRREL) Dr. Zoe Courville, a Polar researcher specializing in Greenland and Antarctic ice core drilling and analysis, recently explained lab work and shares field experiences with Dartmouth College students for their environmental studies class project on ice cores.
  • Towards Integrated Water Resources Management

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA –March 8, 2012. USACE IWR has published “Towards Integrated Water Resources
  • Annual Award Winners Honored

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District held its Annual Awards Ceremony for fiscal year 2011 on Feb. 16. Commander Col. Jon Christensen presided over the event and presented the awards.
  • Nashville District gets down to business

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 8, 2012) – More than 200 business owners and reps from as far away as California traveled to the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus today to garner information on federal, state and local procurement systems. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District small business, contracting, engineering and operations experts got down to business, using the event to explain Corps project opportunities to participants of the Small Business Training Forum.
  • Success Lake recreation area to close until May 25

    Success Lake near Porterville will temporarily close its Rocky Hill Recreation Area for maintenance from March 9 until May 25.
  • Corps public meetings to discuss proposed environmental mitigation plans

    NEW ORLEANS, LA – The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, is hosting public meetings
  • Two humanitarian assistance projects complete in Jordan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District oversaw the completion of two health clinics in remote areas of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.