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Upper Mississippi River System Hydraulic Model Update Complete

May 16, 2022

The Rock Island Engineer District, St. Paul Engineer District and St. Louis Engineer District recently completed a seven-year effort to develop an updated, standardized hydraulic model for the Upper Mississippi… Read More

Corps’ Civil Works Budget Is Still A Work In Progress WJ Editorial

Corps’ Civil Works Budget Is Still A Work In Progress

April 8, 2022

President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget request, released March 29, requests $6.6 billion for the Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works program. This year’s budget request highlights include: • About… Read More

Lock Maintenance Workshop Celebrates 40 Years Of Collaboration Lock Maintenance Workshop participants toured the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Ill., during the 2020 workshop, the last to be held in-person because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Great Lakes and Ohio River Engineer Division)

Lock Maintenance Workshop participants toured the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Ill., during the 2020 workshop, the last to be held in-person because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Great Lakes and Ohio River Engineer Division)

Lock Maintenance Workshop Celebrates 40 Years Of Collaboration

April 1, 2022

Now in its 40th year, the Lock Maintenance Workshop has grown from a gathering of a dozen people to more than 150, including international participants. The workshop, hosted annually by… Read More

White House Announces Additional Waterways Funding Washington Waves

White House Announces Additional Waterways Funding

April 1, 2022

Washington, D.C.—The White House has announced another $2.7 billion to fund U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects throughout the country as part of its effort to strengthen ports and waterways. Read More

St. Paul District Seeks Comments On Pool 4 Dredged Material Plan

March 25, 2022

The St. Paul Engineer District is seeking public comments on a new dredged material management plan and Environmental Assessment released March 22 for the Mississippi River’s Lower Pool 4. The… Read More

Drier-Than-Normal Year Forecast In Missouri Basin

March 23, 2022

The Corps of Engineers’ forecast continues to call for below-average runoff in the Missouri River basin. “The runoff in February was less than predicted, and we expect the lower-than-average runoff… Read More

Ensley Engineer Yard Plans Modernization Of Drydocks The Ensley Engineer Yard in Memphis, Tenn., is a full-service marine maintenance facility operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for federal vessels. The primary mission of Ensley and its staff is to keep personnel and equipment ready to respond at a moment’s notice to emergencies that may arise along the Mississippi River. (Photo by David Ray)

The Ensley Engineer Yard in Memphis, Tenn., is a full-service marine maintenance facility operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for federal vessels. The primary mission of Ensley and its staff is to keep personnel and equipment ready to respond at a moment’s notice to emergencies that may arise along the Mississippi River. (Photo by David Ray)

Ensley Engineer Yard Plans Modernization Of Drydocks

March 21, 2022

With the contract awarded for a new drydock and one of its existing drydocks recently refurbished, the Ensley Engineer Yard expects to improve efficiency in its maintenance and repair of… Read More

StL Engineer District Begins Celebration Of 150th Anniversary

March 10, 2022

The St. Louis Engineer District commenced celebrating its 150th anniversary at the National Great Rivers Museum in Alton, Ill., February 22. Lt. Col. Jason Sears, deputy commander of the district, and… Read More

RiverWorks Discovery Holds Who Works The Rivers In Vicksburg Standing before of a Corps survey boat, Bert Turcotte, Andy Hall and Michael Dale of the Vicksburg Engineer District’s operations department describes for students the careers available in the river operations field. (USACE photo by Vanessa Barnes)

Standing before of a Corps survey boat, Bert Turcotte, Andy Hall and Michael Dale of the Vicksburg Engineer District’s operations department describes for students the careers available in the river operations field. (USACE photo by Vanessa Barnes)

RiverWorks Discovery Holds Who Works The Rivers In Vicksburg

February 25, 2022

Hinds Community College in Vicksburg, Miss., hosted a Who Works the Rivers (WWR) career discovery day February 11, with about 150 high school juniors and seniors from five area schools… Read More

Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock Crewmembers walk across a beam over a hydraulic cylinder pit at the Montgomery Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pa. Design and construction of a new lock at Montgomery is fully funded as part of the Corps work plan announced in January. (Photo by Michel Sauret/Pittsburgh Engineer District)

Crewmembers walk across a beam over a hydraulic cylinder pit at the Montgomery Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pa. Design and construction of a new lock at Montgomery is fully funded as part of the Corps work plan announced in January. (Photo by Michel Sauret/Pittsburgh Engineer District)

Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock

February 4, 2022

With more than 97 percent of the Pittsburgh Engineer District’s funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocated to the full funding of the Montgomery Locks construction work,… Read More