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  • Corps continues to monitor rainfall for the Brazos River and San Bernard River flood stages

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 21, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District continues to monitor rainfall accumulations for possible changes in flood stages or impacts to Corps facilities including the Brazos River and San Bernard River due to recent heavy rainfall.

  • USACE Galveston District Public Affairs Office earns Army’s top community relations award

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 15, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District captured the Department of the Army’s top public affairs honor, winning first place in the community relations program category of the 2011 Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs and Communications Competition.

  • Employee Spotlight: Bill Krampe

    HOUSTON (March 13, 2012) — When engineer equipment operator Bill Krampe of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Houston Project Office arrives to work in the morning, he can never be too sure what he will be doing that day.

  • USACE Galveston District to host proposed offshore wind farm NEPA public scoping meeting

    BROWNSVILLE, Texas (March 14, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, will host a National Environmental Policy Act public scoping meeting for the Department of the Army’s Permit Application Environmental Impact Statement March 28 regarding Baryonyx Corporation Inc.’s proposed offshore wind farm.

  • USACE Galveston District removes debris from Rollover Pass to Galveston Causeway beach renourishment project

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 6, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, encountered what is believed to be Hurricane Ike-related debris during maintenance dredging of Rollover Pass to the Galveston Causeway. The debris material was inadvertently deposited at its federally-coordinated beneficial use site at Caplen Beach on Bolivar Peninsula.

  • USACE Galveston District's recycled computers modernize local schools

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 24, 2012) - Tucked away in a small corner on the first floor of the USACE Galveston District’s Jadwin Building lies a graveyard of sorts – a technology graveyard, comprised of gently used computer equipment waiting to be recycled for future use at local schools as part of a federal program that allows for the transfer of excess computer equipment to classrooms across the nation.

  • Employee Spotlight: Joe Vernier

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 23, 2012) - Developing a love and respect for the open seas came naturally to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Small Craft Operator Joe Vernier, a Galveston, Texas, native, who spent much of his youth recreating along and exploring the Gulf of Mexico. So it’s not any surprise that Vernier chose a career that would enable him to continue doing what he loves – spending time on the water.

  • USACE Galveston District's Public Affairs Office wins tops honors

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 17, 2012)– The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Public Affairs Office captured one first-place award, a second-place award and a third-place award in the 2011 USACE Herbert A. Kassner Public Affairs Competition.

  • USACE Galveston District keeps commerce moving along the Texas coast

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 17, 2012) - On any given day, ships carrying cargo from Mexico to China pull into one of the 28 ports along the Texas coast to deliver imported goods ranging from coffee to cars – a maritime industry that generates $135 billion in economic value to the state and creates nearly one million jobs.

  • Bragg’s Cut set to open March 1

    MATAGORDA COUNTY, Texas (Feb. 17, 2012) – Bragg’s Cut, a new small boat cut constructed between the Old Colorado River and the Diversion Channel, is scheduled to open March 1, 2012, to allow small recreational vessels an alternative to using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston district’s Colorado Locks.