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
Corps of Engineers
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
By Lynn Muench Chair, Coalition to Protect the Missouri River St. Louis, Mo. With heartbreak, we have watched our friends and neighbors across the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and… Read More
In 2014, in recognition of long-standing complaints about the length of time it took the Corps of Engineers to get projects reviewed (including complaints from within the Corps itself), the… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District issued a public notice March 20 that it will perform a seismic upgrade at Pickwick Landing Dam on the Tennessee River. The notice of the improvements… Read More
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, commanding general and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, was recently honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as one of five Outstanding Projects… Read More
A contractor crew lifted steel bulkheads on the upstream side of the St. Anthony Falls Lock on March 20, a tricky maneuver completed in advance of anticipated high flows resulting… Read More
(Note: this is an updated version of an article first posted to waterwaysjournal.net at 9 a.m. March 15.) In response to developing flood conditions in the upper Missouri basin, the… Read More
In response to developing flood conditions on the Missouri River, the Kansas City Engineer District commander, Col. Doug Guttormsen, declared a flood emergency to exist within the Kansas City District. Read More
