The St. Paul Engineer District has started the first phase of the McGregor Lake Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project to restore habitat within Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River. Read More
Environment
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced February 20 that it is launching a new program to use overflights to study the causes and possible remedies of the shrinking of… Read More
The Omaha (Neb.) Engineer District announced that it has awarded a $58.3 million construction contract to Aptim Federal Services LLC of Alexandria, Va., on December 23. This contract is the… Read More
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed on October 23 removing the interior least tern from its list of endangered species. The agency said the least tern population—estimated as… Read More
The Peoria Beneficial Use Dredged Material Workshop was held by the tri-county regional planning commission in early September in Peoria, Illinois. The event addressed the beneficial use of dredged material… Read More
On September 30, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Bloomington, Minn., Corps of Engineers Civil Works Director James Dalton will join the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA) in… Read More
For 123 days this year, the Mississippi River’s flood waters roared through the Bonnet Carré Spillway, located in Norco, La., close to 30 miles upriver from New Orleans. At its… Read More
This spring’s unprecedented flooding across most river systems shut down commercial navigation over large stretches of the waterways. One thing it didn’t shut down was the cleanup work of Living… Read More
In June, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded Partrac GeoMarine Inc. a three-year contract to test a new tool for mapping contaminated sediments. The technology will be used at… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Environmental Commission Chair Craig Vogt will present his idea for a WEDA-TechNotes program at the Environmental Commission meeting on Tuesday, June 4 at the WEDA… Read More
