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  • Corps environmental assessment underway at Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s ongoing major rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam recently passed an important milestone with the completion of an environmental assessment public and agency review period for the project’s next phase located below the saddle dam.

  • Corps of Engineers awards $3.1 million contract for maintenance, improvement dredging at Hampton Harbor

    Maintenance and improvement dredging of Hampton Harbor in Hampton and Seabrook, New Hampshire, will be completed under the terms of a $3,162,780.01 contract issued recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. The project is being constructed in partnership with the Pease Development Authority, New Hampshire Division of Ports and Harbors under an agreement executed on Sept. 5, 2012.

  • Corps of Engineers awards $1 million contract for maintenance dredging of navigation channel in Clinton

    Maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel into Clinton Harbor in Clinton, Conn., will be completed under the terms of a $1,011,042.00 contract issued recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to increase water releases from Lake Okeechobee

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has announced plans to increase the water releases from Lake Okeechobee as part of its efforts to manage the rising lake level.

  • Corps Roundtable promotes STEM career opportunities, workforce diversity

    Leaders and staff from the Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, participated in a STEM Roundtable at Dallas’ Townview School of Science and Engineering on Sept. 28, discussing one-on-one with students and faculty the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The event, which was entitled “Serving our Nation through Science, Technology, Engineering and Math”, was held at the Dallas magnet school recently recognized with the Intel’s School of Distinction Award for the best high school math program in the country.

  • Corps of Engineers project pulls out World War II fuel storage tanks

    Early in World War II, the U.S. government acquired a 305 acre area in Monaca, Pa., on the banks of Raccoon Creek northwest of Pittsburgh. The purpose was strategic and secret -- build six petroleum, oil and lubricant storage tanks to store almost 10 million gallons of fuel as the East Coast reserve for defense fuel.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractors to begin fieldwork at Avon Park Army Airfield

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District will begin fieldwork for the former Avon Park Army Airfield, Friday, Sept. 28.

  • Canaveral Lock to partially close for repairs

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District announced today that Canaveral Lock will be partially closed for upcoming repairs to the Chamber Guide Wall.

  • Bosse navigation charts in the new century

    As commercial navigation becomes more dependent upon electronic technology, the use of paper navigation charts like the hand written ones completed by Henry Bosse in the early 1900s and used on the Dredge Thomson until 2005 are becoming a thing of the past.

  • District, partners dedicate Pool 8 islands project

    District staff gathered near Brownsville, Minn., Aug. 30, to highlight and dedicate the completion of a 3,000-acre environmental project along the Mississippi River in Pool 8.