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  • Update of Flooding at Wappapello Lake, 4-30-17

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake reports significant rains received in the St. Francis watershed north of Wappapello Lake have caused the upper St. Francis River and Wappapello Lake to rise. As of 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 30, 2017, the Wappapello Lake level was 382.52 feet relative to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) and rising.
  • Vigilant Guard ’17: Corps fights flooding with Ga. Nat’l Guard, City of Augusta

    AUGUSTA, Ga. – As a CH-47 Chinook helicopter roared overhead and a company of soldiers worked to protect the city from a rising Savannah River, David Peterson smiled, comfortable in his element. “This is like Christmas,” said a visibly excited Peterson, chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District’s Emergency Management Division.
  • Army Corps of Engineers flood teams stabilizing levees in northern Idaho

    Army Corps flood teams are deployed to the St. Joe River, Coeur d' Alene River and Kootenai River basins today. A flood team is stabilizing the federal levee and the Shepherd Road levee in the City of St. Maries, Idaho, and awarded contracts for staging material at the Callahan Creek levee in Troy, Montana.
  • Army Corps of Engineers flood teams continue work in northern Idaho

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, has flood teams on the ground in the St. Joe and Coeur d’Alene river basins in Idaho and in Troy, Montana. The Corps is working on a temporary measure to stabilize a section of levee on the St. Joe River in support of the City of St. Maries to address flood damages along approximately 300 feet of the levee.
  • Army Corps of Engineers flood teams stabilizing levees in northern Idaho, western Montana

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, has flood teams making repairs and providing assistance on the ground in Sprague, Washington, in the St. Joe River basin in Idaho and in Troy, Montana.
  • Corps of Engineers flood team assessing damage to St. Maries levee

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, has a flood team on the ground in the St. Joe River basin and is developing plans for potential levee repairs in St. Maries.
  • Army Corps of Engineers flood teams responding to flood threat

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, put its Emergency Operations Center into operation March 13 and has sent teams out to the St. Joe and Coeur d’Alene river basins as rivers continue to rise.
  • 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.
  • 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 awards $1.3 million contract for LA River barrier installation

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District awarded a $1.3 million contract to JF Engineering of Pomona, California, Jan. 9 to install roughly 3 miles of temporary protective barriers to increase bank height along the most vulnerable reaches of the LA River that will restore channel capacity and reduce the risk of flooding to homes and businesses.