10 Sep 2022

Army Corps Supports Branch Week at USMA West Point

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, participated in Branch Week at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York ─ an annual event providing Cadets an opportunity to become more familiar with the different branches of the U.S. Army and meet with experienced Soldiers and Army leaders to discuss potential career paths.

9 Sep 2022

USACE Vicksburg District partners with Engineer Research and Development Center to build model of Yazoo Backwater Pump Project

VICKSBURG, Miss. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District in coordination with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has recently developed a physical model of the Yazoo Backwater Pump project.

9 Sep 2022

USACE changes target flows from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee to Zero

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District will change target flows from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee beginning Saturday, September 10, as lake levels continue to recede during the wet season and entered the Water Shortage Management Band this week.

9 Sep 2022

USACE denies regulatory permit for gold mining project near Nome

Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District denied IPOP, LLC’s permit application to dredge and dispose of material in wetlands and waterways of the U.S. near Nome, Alaska. USACE rejected the proposed project under its authority for Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act.

9 Sep 2022

Auditor recalls hunger as refugee to fulfillment with Corps of Engineers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 9, 2022) – An auditor who calls Music City home recalls the pain of going to bed hungry as a refugee, the excitement of immigrating and embracing opportunity in the United States, and fulfillment of giving back to America as an employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

9 Sep 2022

One lane of Highway 32 across Millwood Dam to temporarily close

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is temporarily closing one lane of Highway 32 across Millwood Dam from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily Sept. 12 through 16.

9 Sep 2022

USACE Vicksburg District announces special veterans’ deer hunt at Grenada Lake

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District announces that Grenada Lake will host its 2022 Veterans Deer Hunt at the Grenada Lake Dam Area on Nov. 19-21.

9 Sep 2022

USACE Vicksburg District’s Grenada Lake accepting applications for special archery deer hunt

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District announces that Grenada Lake will once again open two areas specifically for archery hunting during the 2022-2023 hunting season.

9 Sep 2022

Munitions response programs improve with technological advancement, training

In August, the EMCX hosted a technical training seminar for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geophysicists focused on familiarization of simultaneous location and mapping, or SLAM, technology that will increase mapping production rates in thick vegetation where previously only tape measures or line-of-site robotic total station (RTS) technologies were available.

9 Sep 2022

9,200 buckets later, Corps dredging halfway complete at Gold Beach

A giant bucket – the size of a 1970s Volkswagen bus – swings through the air after it gobbles up 20 cubic yards of gravel blocking (shoaling-in) access to parts of the Port of Gold Beach, Ore. The small community on the southern coast, where the Rogue River meets the Pacific Ocean, doesn’t have much, but it has a port that sees upwards of 35,000 visitors per year for jet boat tours and averages 75-100 fishing boats a day, according to port officials.