The New Orleans Engineer District recently awarded a contract for constructing the ninth reach on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project. This contract… Read More
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The Corps of Engineers held a press conference January 23 to kick off public comments for the forthcoming Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study. “Your concerns, needs and interests will… Read More
Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the Port of Terrebonne met in Houma,… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District awarded a $34.2 million contract to McMillen Inc., Boise, Idaho, on August 31 for construction of a steel system to allow dewatering of the Old… Read More
Despite announcing just over a month and a half ago that the New Orleans Engineer District will need an additional $2.97 billion to complete the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project,… Read More
Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division and president of the Mississippi River Commission, was in the New Orleans Engineer District in… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Engineer Division and the New Orleans Engineer District have granted the conditional permit and Section 408 permission to Louisiana’s Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) for the… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District celebrated its three years under the leadership of Col. Stephen Murphy and the transfer of command to Col. Cullen Jones in a September 16 ceremony… Read More
This high-water season is threatening to break records along the whole length of several river systems. Higher-than-expected rainfalls in the last weekend of February caused high water in the Ohio… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District set its first 1.3-million-pound concrete shell August 6. The lift-in shell forms a part of the downstream cofferdam for the new Tennessee River lock under construction… Read More
