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  • Ecosystem restoration reverses 160 years of habitat decline in suburban Frisco, Texas

    Lynde Dodd, a research biologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ERDC Environmental Laboratory, still recalls her summer hike three years ago. She walked drainages between subdivisions in Frisco, a booming suburb, conducting a pre-construction vegetation survey. The first settlers to the Peters Colony 160 years ago encountered bison and a vibrant prairie. It spread across rolling hills that overlook rich North Texas riparian bottomlands. This Blackland Prairie “once exploded with a riot of colorful wildflowers and grasses,” wrote Matt White, author of Prairie Time. “From flowers that bloom barely above the ground to others 10 feet or more in height, the variety of plant life that existed within just a few feet was remarkable.”

  • USACE looks to highlight long term assistance programs

    Local, county and state officials can request long term assistance measures through the Continuing Authorities Program (CAP), Planning Assistance to States and through the Interagency and International Services Program. Each program offers many partnership opportunities on flood risk mitigation, shoreline protection, preparing plans to manage water and related land resources, and relief and recovery work to name a few examples.

  • Big Fishweir Creek project shows signs of progress

    The Big Fishweir Creek project is moving forward after the City of Jacksonville recently approved funding for the Corps to execute a project partnership agreement and initiate the design and implementation phase of the project.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards contract for ecosystem restoration in Laredo

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District awarded an ecosystem restoration contract for a tract of land along the Rio Grande in Laredo under the Continuing Authorities Program. The district awarded a $2.44 million contract Sept. 17 to M.D. Merrett Inc. of Carefree, Arizona, under Section 206, Water Resources Development Act of 1996. The project is a cost-share partnership with the city of Laredo.

  • Corps of Engineers awards ecosystem restoration contracts for projects in Frisco and Seguin

    FORT WORTH, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District awarded two contracts

  • What is the USACE Galveston District's Continuing Authorities Program?

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 18, 2015) - The Continuing Authorities Program provides the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District with the authority to solve water resource, flood risk mitigation and environmental restoration problems in partnership with local sponsors without the need to obtain specific congressional authorization for each project. This decreases the amount of time required to budget, develop and approve a potential project for construction.

  • Corps of Engineers and the Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe partner on sewer service extension in Mille Lacs County

    ST. PAUL, MINN. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently partnered with the Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to expand the existing sewer service in Mille Lacs County, Minn.

  • Tarpon Springs project protects infrastructure, hurricane evacuation route

    Fifteen years after its initial start and nearly 10 years after the execution of the Feasibility Cost Sharing Agreement (FCSA) with the city of Tarpon Springs, Jacksonville District completed construction on the Whitcomb and Kreamer Bayous Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project. The project, located in Tarpon Springs, is a Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) Section 103 Hurricane and Storm Damage Protection Project.