2 Dec 2019

2019 navigation season wraps up

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District navigation season is coming to an end. The last tow of the season departed St. Paul, Minnesota, Thursday, Nov. 28.

25 Apr 2019

Corps of Engineers continues water management efforts to reduce flooding

ST. PAUL, Minn. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, continues managing its reservoirs to reduce flood threats to communities in the Upper Midwest.

11 Apr 2018

First tow of 2018 reaches St. Paul, Minnesota, opening Upper Mississippi River navigation season

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Motor Vessel Michael Poindexter, pushing 12 barges en route to St. Paul, locked through Lock and Dam 2, near Hastings, today around 1:30 p.m.

1 Feb 2017

Corps of Engineers to take annual Lake Pepin ice measurements

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will begin taking this year’s annual Lake Pepin ice measurements Feb. 15.

15 Oct 2015

Henry Bosse

One of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District’s claim to fame is renowned photographer Henry Bosse. Bosse was born in Prussia Nov. 13, 1844. He immigrated to the United States in 1865; and by, 1870, he was working in a book and stationary shop in Chicago. He began working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Chicago in 1874 and was soon transferred to the Corps’ River and Harbor Improvement Office in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1878, he transferred to the Corps’ Rock Island District.

15 Feb 2012

Environmental Management Program reaches 25 years

The Pool 8 Islands construction project on the Upper Mississippi River near Brownsville, Minn., is scheduled for completion this summer and the first stage of construction at Capoli Slough, downstream of Lansing, Iowa, is scheduled to start this spring. Both projects are part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Environmental Management Program, known as the EMP.