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  • NR 22-04: Corps of Engineers ends Cook Recreation Area initiative

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 17, 2022) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is ending its initiative for a public-private partnership to lease Cook Recreation Area at J. Percy Priest Lake in Hermitage, Tennessee.

  • Delayed refill at Corps reservoirs to impact boating, recreation

    Army water managers will delay refilling Cougar and Fall Creek reservoirs and conduct spill operations at Foster Dam as required by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon’s Willamette Valley injunction because of recent litigation. The delay at Cougar and Fall Creek will impact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) ability to refill the reservoirs to their normal summer levels, which will impact boating and recreation activities.

  • Below average runoff forecast for the upper Missouri River Basin in 2022

    The updated 2022 calendar year runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, continues to be below average.  “Despite January’s runoff being slightly above average, we expect 2022 runoff to remain below average,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’, Missouri River Basin Water Management Division. “Both plains snowpack and mountain snowpack continue to lag behind seasonal averages, and soil moisture continues to be much drier-than-normal.”

  • Pittsburgh District joins Duquesne University to form a stunning partnership

    Every organization says they are a learning organization, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has taken its quest for innovation to a stunning level. During the 2021 recreation season, experts from the Pittsburgh District began a partnership with Duquesne University’s biology department. The goal was to test water quality within Crooked Creek Lake’s watershed called an “electrofishing survey,” which the corps had not used before.

  • USACE Vicksburg District announces temporary outlet closure at Arkabutla Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District announces the outlet gates at Arkabutla Lake will be temporarily closed starting Jan. 25.

  • USACE Vicksburg District announces temporary closure of Lost Bluff Hiking Trail at Grenada Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District has temporarily closed the Lost Bluff Hiking Trail at Grenada Lake.

  • USACE Vicksburg District, Corps Foundation recognize volunteer duo for 14 years of excellent service

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District recently recognized Lake Ouachita volunteers Windell and Carolyn Belford with the Volunteer Excellence Coin for their 14 years of exemplary service at Denby Point Recreation Area.

  • Dry Conditions expected to persist for the Missouri River Basin

    The 2021 calendar year runoff summation for the Missouri River basin above Sioux City, Iowa was 15.2 million acre-feet, 59% of average. The ongoing drought shows no relief in sight and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is predicting runoff into the mainstem reservoir system will remain below normal. This was the 10th lowest annual runoff for the Missouri River Basin in 123 years of record-keeping.

  • USACE Vicksburg District announces changes for annual Eagle Watch and Fish Habitat Days

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District announces the Mississippi lakes will not hold in-person Eagle Watch or Fish Habitat Day events this year due to Covid-19 transmission concerns.

  • Hunters band together at Physically Challenged Deer Hunt at Arkabutla Lake

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District hosted the 31st  annual Arkabutla Lake Physically Challenged Deer Hunt, December 3-5 and 10-12, 2021.