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Corps Begins Design Work For New Drydock The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to replace one of these 400-ton dry docks at the Ensley Engineer Yard in Memphis, Tenn., with a new, 1,600-to 2,000-ton dry dock. Construction is expected to be complete by February 2022. (Photo courtesy of the Memphis Engineer District)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to replace one of these 400-ton dry docks at the Ensley Engineer Yard in Memphis, Tenn., with a new, 1,600-to 2,000-ton dry dock. Construction is expected to be complete by February 2022. (Photo courtesy of the Memphis Engineer District)

Corps Begins Design Work For New Drydock

April 10, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun plans for a new drydock to inspect and repair Corps and Coast Guard vessels. Bristol Harbor Group Inc. of Bristol, R.I., has… Read More

Barge Industry Is Used To Rising To Challenges WJ Editorial

Barge Industry Is Used To Rising To Challenges

April 10, 2020

As the coronavirus emergency stretches into weeks and maybe months, there are an increasing number of stories of companies, institutions and individuals pulling together in what President Donald Trump has… Read More

Corps Leads Effort To Construct Alternate Care Facilities In COVID-19 Response

April 5, 2020

With available hospital space nationwide dwindling with the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the federal effort to… Read More

Flood Prioritization Bill Introduced For Missouri River

March 13, 2020

Missouri River management practices are the focus of a new bill in Congress, as well as of a lawsuit whose latest phase will take place in June. Missouri Sen. Roy… Read More

Corps Partners With NOLA Industry For Safety Training Personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gather for a group photo alongside Chalmette Slip, part of Associated Terminals’ Arabi, La., base of operations as part of the January 30 floating plant safety course. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gather for a group photo alongside Chalmette Slip, part of Associated Terminals’ Arabi, La., base of operations as part of the January 30 floating plant safety course. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Corps Partners With NOLA Industry For Safety Training

February 24, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Huntsville, Ala.-based Learning Center hosted a floating plant safety course in New Orleans, La., January 30. The Corps (USACE) holds two floating plant safety… Read More

Waterways Groups Savage ‘Astonishingly Inadequate’ Budget Proposal

February 12, 2020

Inland waterways stakeholders reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposed 2021 budget, which contains no money at all for construction of ongoing priority navigation projects cost-shared with the Inland Waterways… Read More

Corps Announces Planned Projects Under the Disaster Relief Act

February 3, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced additional work that it will accomplish with funding provided in Public Law 116-20, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Act, 2019, signed into… Read More

Norfolk Harbor Dredging Underway

February 3, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Cottrell Contracting began dredging the Norfolk Harbor Inner Channel and channel to Newport News in late December. The Norfolk District is managing the… Read More

House Democrats Introduce New Infrastructure Framework Washington Waves

House Democrats Introduce New Infrastructure Framework

January 31, 2020

Washington, D.C.—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a group of her key committee chairmen and freshman lawmakers to try and resuscitate infrastructure as a potential bipartisan issue by announcing a… Read More

Corps Opens South Pacific Border District

December 27, 2019

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established its 46th district in a ceremony held in Phoenix, Arizona on December 6. The newly activated South Pacific Border District falls under the… Read More