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  • Headwaters Highlight: Rangers welcome bird watchers to Berlin Lake as a growing birding hotspot

    Park rangers and staff at Berlin Lake want to encourage more bird enthusiasts to visit the reservoir. Berlin Lake is located along the Atlantic Flyway path, considered a migration highway, making the reservoir a hotspot for birds during migration.

  • Corps to begin deep drawdowns at Green Peter, Lookout Point

    Beginning in June, the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin to gradually drawdown Lookout Point and Green Peter reservoirs to historically low levels. The goal of these reservoir “drawdowns,” which are part of an injunction ordered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, is to increase juvenile spring Chinook and steelhead survival and passage through the reservoirs and past the dams.

  • 23-015 Dworshak Dam to increase releases at the end of March

    AHSAHKA, Idaho –Dworshak Dam will be increasing releases starting March 27 from 1,700 cubic feet per second to approximately 4,000 to 6,000 cfs over a two-day period. Operations at Dworshak will change the height of the Clearwater River downstream of the dam by approximately 1.5 feet, over the two-day period.

  • Corps begins spring drawdowns in the Red River of the North basin

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is beginning the process of lowering its reservoir elevations within the Red River of the North basin this week based on recent snow measurements to prepare for potential spring snowmelt.

  • 22-063 Dworshak Dam Visitor Center resumes off-season hours

    AHSAHKA, Idaho – With the summer recreation season winding down, Dworshak Dam and Reservoir’s Visitor Center hours of operation are set to change.

  • Balancing our region’s reservoir waters

    After a three-year-long evaluation, Col. Kimberly A. Peeples, commander of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, signed a congressionally approved and updated water control manual for the Mahoning River Basin.

  • 22-049 Dworshak Reservoir offers July 4 holiday fun

    AHSAHKA, Idaho – Come out and enjoy Dworshak Dam and Reservoir this July 4. The reservoir is at full pool! All campgrounds and boat ramps are open for use.

  • Corps to host virtual public scoping meeting on Shenango River Lake master plan revision

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is hosting a virtual public meeting to kick off the Shenango River Lake master plan revision. The corps is seeking public input about environmental and recreational topics to consider while revising the master plan, which will guide the use of the lake’s natural resources for the next 25 years.

  • Men’s overconfidence leads to unnecessary drownings

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – Nearly 90 percent of drownings at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ lakes are adult males and it seems arrogance – thinking they can swim and lame excuses, like life jackets are uncomfortable or unflattering, lead to drownings in many cases.

  • Corps facing historically dry year in Rogue River Basin

    Army water managers for the Rogue River Basin will hold a virtual information session May 3, 3-4 p.m., to discuss challenges that are hampering efforts to refill the basin’s two reservoirs ahead of the summer conservation season.