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  • USACE Galveston District awards $1.8 million contract for placement area dewatering

    GALVESTON, Texas (July 23, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a small business contract in the amount of $1,857,410, to Affolter Contracting Company Inc., for dewatering of the Mid Bay Dredged Material Placement Area in Chambers County, Texas.

  • NR 15-025: Old Hickory Lock closing for maintenance July 14 - Aug. 4, 2015

    OLD HICKORY, TENN., (July 7, 2015) – Old Hickory Lock is closing July 14 to Aug. 4, 2015 to all public access, including navigational traffic, for dewatering and maintenance.

  • Engineers inspect dewatered lock at Morgantown

    Some Pittsburgh District personnel got a rare glimpse at a dewatered lock when they took part in an

  • Lock and Dam 8 to reopen March 17

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, announced that Lock and Dam 8, near Genoa, Wis., will reopen March 17.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $1.36 million small business contract for Alexander Island Placement Area DAMP

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 27, 2013) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount $1,369,515.74 to Integris Projects LLC (a Small Business Administration 8(a) contractor), for dewatering of the Alexander Island Placement Area relating to the Houston Ship Channel in Harris County, Texas.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $1.1 million contract for placement area DAMP

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 11, 2013) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $1,131,067 to RLB Contracting Inc., for dewatering and incremental levee raising at dredging placement areas 1 and 2 located north of the Harbor Causeway or Highway 181, on the east side of the Inner Harbor, Corpus Christi, Texas.

  • Engineering a difference

    Thumbing through the pages of his chartreuse logbook where he writes down thoughts, project plans and drawings, Capt. Antonio Pazos stops to point out a particular drawing. It’s a rough sketch diagram of how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and federal and state engineers designed a dewatering plan to remove 400 million gallons of water from the Brooklyn Battery and Queens tunnels after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast Oct.29, 2012.

  • Engineering a difference

    Captain Antonio Pazos was in the Hurricane Sandy emergency operations center, simultaneously gathering progress reports for 14 projects which included the tunnels, preparing reports for the New York’s emergency operations center and controlling the flow of water. It was right where a self-identified adrenaline junkie was meant to be.

  • Dive team inspects Pickwick Lock ahead of dewatering

    COUNCE, Tenn. (March 5, 2013) – Divers and support personnel are doing a thorough underwater inspection of Pickwick Lock this week ahead of scheduled maintenance. The team is looking for signs of wear and tear and mapping its findings as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District prepares to empty water from the lock later this year.

  • Dewatering a lock and dam

    For the fourth time since it was put into service in 1936, Lock and Dam 6, near Trempealeau, Wis.,