A pair of smaller Louisiana waterways—the Houma Navigation Canal and bayous Chene, Boeuf and Black—will receive additional dredging funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ fiscal year… Read More
Corps of Engineers
The Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan includes an additional $59 million in funding for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This funding… Read More
Last week, the National Waterways Foundation released a long-awaited report titled “How Project Selection In the Corps of Engineers Is Affected By Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) Analysis.” It’s dense and… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released to Congress a fiscal year 2019 work plan for its civil works program, allocating roughly $2 billion to specific programs, projects… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District’s Final Preferred Plan for its Brandon Lock and Dam was released November 26, after much controversy and many delays. The array of measures designed… Read More
Washington, D.C.—A long-stalled infrastructure proposal could be one of the big winners of the midterm elections that left Americans again with a divided government. President Donald Trump, Senate… Read More
On October 26, the Galveston Engineer District released a long-discussed tentatively selected plan for protecting Texas’ vulnerable coastline against storm surge by building a series of offshore barriers, the… Read More
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018, included as title I of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (S. 3021), was signed into law on October 23. The new… Read More
By Judith Powers and Sean Duffy There are 6,800 acres of new marshland bordering the Passes of the Mississippi River—land that was created starting in 2011 by a coalition… Read More
Lt. Cmdr. Takila Powell has been with the Coast Guard since 2002. Before she arrived back in the Investigations Department of District 8 in New Orleans in June (where… Read More
