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  • Corps of Engineers recognizes Robbinsdale, Minnesota, resident

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Robbinsdale, Minnesota, resident Susan Robinson as one of its four Civil Servants of the Year for 2016.

  • Corps of Engineers recognizes Columbia Heights, Minnesota, resident

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Columbia Heights, Minnesota, resident Matthew Bray as one of its four Civil Servants of the Year for 2016.

  • Corps of Engineers recognizes Cottage Grove, Minnesota, resident

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Cottage Grove, Minnesota, resident Neil Schwanz as one of its four Civil Servants of the Year for 2016.

  • Federal and local leaders invite the community to remember 1997 flood; celebrate groundbreaking on federal project

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Board of Authority invite the public to a 1997 Flood Commemoration and Groundbreaking Ceremony at 1 p.m., Monday, April 17.

  • St. Paul employee part of team searching for Amelia Earhart

    District employee Kenton Spading, rehired annuitant, regulatory, believes he and his team could be in the midst of unraveling the decades-old mystery of what happened to famous aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, who both went missing in 1937.

  • Flood of ’97 overwhelms Wahpeton/Breckenridge

    (originally published in the October-November 2007 Crosscurrents) Engineering division’s Matt Bray and Tim Grundhoffer fought two swiftly rising rivers, blizzard conditions and extreme temperatures only to be overcome by conditions beyond their control and to lose portions of a town not just once, but twice, in the same flood. Bray, a geotech engineer, and Grundhoffer, a structural engineer, were assigned as flood subarea engineers in Wahpeton, N.D., and Breckenridge, Minn., during the 1997 floods that wreaked havoc across the Red River Valley. Although they worked together closely, Bray worked primarily in Wahpeton and Grundhoffer in Breckenridge. Pete Corkin, from Rock Island District, assisted them.

  • Memories linger of disaster at East Grand Forks/Grand Forks

    (first published in Crosscurrents Oct.-Nov. 2007 edition) The district, the locals, the volunteers –they all put up a tremendous fight, but ultimately the Red River of the North rose too high, too fast. And although it’s been 10 years since the spring flooding in the Red River Valley destroyed much of Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn., the sights, the sounds, the emotions of this event linger for those who were there. "I can still picture those breaches like it was yesterday,” said Neil Schwanz, a geo-tech engineer. “I can picture myself standing [there], watching all this happen.”

  • Corps of Engineers contractor set to begin work at diversion inlet structure

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is preparing to start construction activities on the diversion inlet structure, near Horace, North Dakota, this week.

  • Officials, administrators invited to Corps flood action plan workshops

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is inviting city and county officials and administrators to a workshop in order to develop emergency action plans for local cities and counties. The workshops will be held, at no charge, Feb. 14, 15 and 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at three different locations.

  • Corps will open Reservation Dam on Monday

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will open Reservation Dam, near Wheaton, Minn., Monday, Jan. 23, due to recent warmer weather and higher than normal inflow into Lake Traverse.