The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, Col. Andrew Kelly and the executive director for Puerto Rico Ports Authority (PRPA), Anthony O. Maceira Zayas signed a partnership agreement on… Read More
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On May 24, the Rock Island Engineer District announced that a $779 million plan at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River to prevent the spread of… Read More
Precipitation totaling between 2 to 5 inches fell over central Nebraska and much of South Dakota during the first half of last week. Because of the rain, inflows into the… Read More
The rain keeps falling in the Midwest, which has seen the wettest year on record. And much of that runoff is bound for the Mississippi River, already in the midst… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District held a conference call on April 26 to provide an update on the progress of the Navigation Improvement Study for the Miami… Read More
Brian Tetreault, a navigation systems specialist at the Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss., has been working on developing new capabilities for AIS (automatic identification system)… Read More
By Tom Waters The flood of 2019 has wreaked havoc in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. From Omaha to Kansas City, more than 100 breaches in levees allowed the Missouri… Read More
Leaders of the St. Paul Engineer District met last month with leaders of the city of Wabasha, Minn., to discuss the dredged material management plan for Lower Pool 4. The… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Rejecting President Donald Trump’s request for budget cuts, a Democratic-controlled House subcommittee advanced a spending bill to hike funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the full… Read More
Earlier this year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) took delivery of a new mini-robotic submersible dredge (MRSD) built by EDDY Pump. The dredge… Read More
