Hurricane Idalia, the ninth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall August 29 near Keaton Beach, Fla., in the state’s Big Bend area, with maximum sustained… Read More
Archive: 2023
Friends remembered river historian and writer Keith Norrington following his passing on August 30. Norrington, 69, of New Albany, Ind., served as director and curator of the Howard… Read More
Lashed together with steel cables, bundles of trees dangled from a helicopter over the upper Ohio River, ready to become fish habitats. Twenty-nine tree bundles, removed in March… Read More
As harvest season commences, the Corps of Engineers and its contractors are busy with Mississippi River dredging. The St. Paul Engineer District has four mechanical dredges doing channel… Read More
The Memphis Engineer District’s new bank grader, Grader 1, is already hard at work helping to provide riverbank stabilization. Delivered to Memphis in April and christened… Read More
Construction of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project could be delayed if a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) isn’t signed between the Corps of Engineers and the state of Illinois… Read More
After first unveiling plans in January to purchase the former Avondale Shipyard on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish from T. Parker Host (Host), the… Read More
A channel-deepening project that has been talked about for 20 years is underway on the Arkansas River. The Tulsa and Little Rock Engineer Districts have begun a required environmental… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The Biden administration announced a final rule to conform its contentious Waters of the United States (WOTUS) definition to a divided Supreme Court ruling that did not go… Read More
This year saw the beginning of two important projects that, although distinct, are closely related. In June, the Tulsa and Little Rock Engineer Districts held public hearings to… Read More
