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  • Corps’ Survey Boat Graham capsizes near mouth of Chetco River

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Survey Boat Graham capsized while working near the mouth of the Chetco River in Brookings at approximately 1 p.m. today. The two crew members onboard were rescued and the boat was recovered.

  • Dewatered Navigation Lock Tour Cancelled

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District announces it is postponing the Dashields Locks and Dam event scheduled for tomorrow, April 4, due to high water conditions on the Ohio River.

  • Employees engineer ‘fun’ learning activities for ‘Bring Your Kids to Work Day’

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 30, 2018) – Some very accomplished employees in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently engineered “fun” learning activities for “Bring Your Kids to Work Day.”

  • Corps accepts public comment through March 31 regarding temporary lock closure

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District will accept public comment through March 31 regarding the temporary closure of the Ortona Lock in scheduled for June. The Corps has been accepting public comments on the proposal to temporarily close the Ortona Lock along the Okeechobee Waterway in south Florida for maintenance and repairs since the end of January.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins Knapps Narrows maintenance dredging

    Crews began dredging Knapps Narrows near Tilghman Island this past weekend as part of maintenance dredging being overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to ensure continued safe navigation along the federal channel.

  • Corps awards contract for U.S. Naval Station Kings Bay and Blount Island dredging

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District awarded a $7,017,000.00 contract to Southern Dredging Co. Inc. of Charleston, South Carolina, for the maintenance dredging of U.S. Naval Station Kings Bay, Georgia, and Marine Corps Support Facility – Blount Island, Florida.

  • Emsworth, Dashields primary lock chamber closures to cause long delays

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is alerting mariners of long delays at Emsworth

  • Navigating and maintaining the river

    Navigation is one of the eight authorized purposes of the Missouri River that mandates the Corps of Engineers to manage the navigation channel between Sioux City, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri. The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945 calls for a 9-foot deep and minimum 300-foot wide channel. Today, the focus of the Corps of Engineers navigation mission is to provide safe, reliable, efficient and environmentally sustainable waterborne transportation system for movement of commerce, national security needs and recreation. In order to meet this mission, the Corps focuses on repairs to river structures from damage such as ice, debris, scouring and high water velocity.

  • Nashville District tames Cumberland River with the 'Old Locks'

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 14, 2018) – Using wood coffer dams, primitive hand tools, A-frames and even animals to haul in supplies and stone blocks on tracks from nearby rock quarries, Army engineers constructed 15 navigation locks in the late 1800s and early 1900s to tame the Cumberland River for steamboats moving people and commerce throughout the region a century ago.

  • St. Paul District ice survey on Lake Pepin precursors 2018 navigation season

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will begin taking this year’s annual Lake Pepin ice measurements Feb. 21.