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  • Communities come together to plan for, discover options to reducing flood risks

    The Virginia Silver Jackets are hosting a Lower Virginia Peninsula Coastal Resilience Tournament in Hampton, Virginia on June 5.

  • 18-050 Walla Walla District receives $3.3M supplemental funding for rehabilitation of flood-damaged levees

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Four levees damaged during the 2017 flood season, located within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District area of operations, received a total of approximately $3.3 million in cumulative funding for flood-related repairs under Public Law 115-123, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed into law February 9, 2018.

  • 18-049 Corps awards contract for emergency Heise-Roberts Levee repair

    LORENZO, Idaho – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract today to conduct temporary emergency levee repairs on an eroded section of the Heise-Roberts Levee System, located on the Snake River near Lorenzo, Idaho, about 3.7 miles downstream from the U.S. Route 20 bridge. The contractor’s crews and equipment are in the process of mobilizing to the site to begin work. Hydraulic and civil engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Walla Walla District deployed to Jefferson County on May 16, 2018, to provide emergency-management assistance to Jefferson County, Idaho, and help stabilize the levee.

  • Draft EA for flood risk reduction project in Williston, ND available for public comment

    A draft environmental assessment for a proposal to develop a flood risk reduction project for the city of Williston, ND is currently available for public review. The draft EA evaluates the environmental impacts of implementing a project that reduces the threat of flooding to the city from the Bell and Handy Andy watersheds and Sand Creek. Comments must be postmarked or received no later than May 30, 2018.

  • 18-033 Dworshak to decrease flow discharge to 7,500 c.f.s.

    AHSAHKA, Idaho – Discharge flows from Dworshak Dam and Reservoir will be decreased tomorrow, April 10, 2018, beginning at about 9 a.m., from approximately 10,000 c.f.s. (cubic feet per second) to about 7,500 c.f.s., according to reservoir managers at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Walla Walla District.

  • 18-031 Dworshak increases flow discharge to 10,000 c.f.s.

    AHSAHKA, Idaho – Discharge flows from Dworshak Dam and Reservoir are being increased today, Feb. 7, 2018, beginning at about midnight, from approximately 8,500 c.f.s. (cubic feet per second) to about 10,000 c.f.s. to maintain room in Dworshak Reservoir to meet seasonal flood-risk-management requirements.

  • Final input sought on Deadmans Run flood risk study

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in cooperation with the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (NRD) and the City of Lincoln, will hold an open house on Wednesday, March 28, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) Center, 1800 N. 33rd Street in Lincoln. Comments from area residents, businesses and other interested parties are being sought on the draft feasibility report for the Deadmans Run flood risk management study. There will be a brief, formal presentation at 5:30 p.m.

  • 18-023 Mountain snowpack affects springtime recreation at Dworshak

    AHSAHKA, Idaho - Snowpack and lingering winter weather conditions in the Clearwater River Basin are putting a temporary freeze on some recreational opportunities at Dworshak Dam and Reservoir.

  • 18-016 Dworshak increases flow discharge to 20,000 c.f.s.

    AHSAHKA, Idaho – Discharge flows from Dworshak Dam and Reservoir will be increased today, Feb. 16, 2018, beginning at 11:59 p.m., from approximately 17,000 c.f.s. (cubic feet per second) to about 20,000 c.f.s. to make room in Dworshak Reservoir to meet seasonal flood-risk-management requirements.

  • Public meeting set regarding Marysville Ring Levee 2019 construction

    A public meeting regarding refined construction plans for Phases 2A South and 2C for the Marysville Ring Levee project will be held Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. in the Yuba County Government Center, located at 915 8th Street in Marysville.