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  • Army Corps Celebrates Environmental Day

    Students from local area schools spent the day interacting with the Army Corps and its partnering agencies and organizations at Environmental Day held in Elizabeth, N.J. The event generated awareness and provided information about the value of the environment, long term sustainability of the planet, and its current environmental status.

  • Army Corps Joins Students, Partners and Celebrate Environmental Day

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District participated in Environmental Day, an annual event held at Elizabeth, New Jersey aimed at educating local students about the environment. On a perfect weather day for an outdoor classroom environment, the event was held April 24th adjacent to the Elizabeth Marina dock on the shore of the Arthur Kill Channel.

  • Army Corps to Conduct Public Information Session to Discuss Blasting in the Kill Van Kull off of Bayonne, NJ

    Underwater staggered detonations to fracture rock will be accomplished in a localized two acre area in the Kill Van Kull Channel for navigational safety.

  • Army Corps to Conduct Public Information Session to Discuss Blasting in the Kill Van Kull off of Bayonne, NJ

    The Army Corps in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are improving the main shipping channels in the Port by deepening them to a depth of 50 feet, allowing more efficient access to the world’s largest oceangoing ships.

  • Army Corps Offers Update on Final Major Harbor 50 Foot Deepening Contract

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are improving the main shipping channels in the Port by deepening them to a depth of 50 feet, allowing more efficient access to the world’s largest oceangoing ships. The final major contract (S-AK-3) involves work in the Arthur Kill Channel between Elizabeth NJ and the New York Container Terminal; the Elizabeth Channel; the western 1,000 ft. of the Port Elizabeth Channel; and a small approximately two acre area in the Kill Van Kull Channel off of Bayonne NJ.

  • Army Corps Offers Update on Final Major Harbor 50 Foot Deepening Contract

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are improving the main shipping channels in the Port by deepening them to a depth of 50 feet, allowing more efficient access to the world’s largest oceangoing ships.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases First Interim Report to Congress

    In accordance with the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineeres developed and submitted to Congress the first of two interim reports, which provides the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate with an assessment of authorized constructed projects and authorized projects under construction for reducing flooding and storm risks in the North Atlantic Division.

  • New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening Project Reaches Milestone

    Navigation channels leading to the four major container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel is expected to be completed in 2014.

  • Army Corps Awards Contract to Deepen the Arthur Kill Channel

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has awarded a contract for deepening the Arthur Kill Channel. The Arthur Kill Channel deepening effort is part of a more extensive harbor-dredging project to create safe and efficient channels for a larger class of vessels that will be calling at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

  • Public provides comments on Gregory Canyon landfill permit application

    ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- Nearly 400 people attended a public hearing Jan. 31 at the California Center for the Arts here on a permit application for the proposed Gregory Canyon landfill near Pala, providing scientific data, historical information and personal perspective, both for and against the controversial project.