U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District - Thu June 01, 2023
Contractor Repurposing Items From Renovation of Georgia's Fort Stewart Army Post
Fort Stewart's Building 633, a 46-year-old Volunteer Army barracks at the base in Savannah, Ga., is undergoing extensive internal renovations, and the old doors, cabinets and other hardware items that were removed are being repurposed at various locations on the installation and throughout Georgia....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu May 04, 2023
Repairing Saint George's Bridge
Everyone likes short cuts. It saves time. It saves fuel and it saves aggravation. Business leaders in the late 1700s envisioned such a short cut slicing through a narrow strip of land to build a waterway linking the Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware River....
Oregon City Online - Tue March 21, 2023
Northbank Civil, Marine Inc. to Make Seismic Repairs
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Portland District (Corps) has awarded a construction contract for completing safety and seismic repairs at Willamette Falls Locks before the agency's official transfer of the historic navigation lock system to the Willamette Falls Locks Authority, expected to take place in 2026....
Office of U.S. Sen. Tom Carper & CEG - Mon March 13, 2023
Delaware Lawmakers in D.C. Get $51.7M in USACE Funding for Water Projects
Delaware's Congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., announced on March 7 that it had secured $51.7 for critical water infrastructure projects in the state as a part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) work plan for fiscal 2023....
East Hampton Star - Wed February 15, 2023
New York's Montauk Point Revetment to Finish Six Months Ahead of Schedule
The new 874-ft.-tall stone revetment at Montauk Point on New York's easternmost tip of Long Island will be completed six months ahead of schedule but with many more boulders than were originally budgeted....
Greenup Industries - Wed December 28, 2022
Greenup Industries Successfully Completes First of Three U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Storm Protection Projects
Greenup Industries successfully completed the Stockpile 2 project for the West Shore Lake Ponchartrain Project (WSLPP) and is scheduled to complete Stockpile 1 in the summer of 2023. The company was awarded two contracts for stockpiling clay by the U.S....
Associated Press - Tue December 27, 2022
House Authorizes Defense Bill, Includes Ike Dike Protection
HOUSTON (AP) Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas, but mostly spared the region's oil refineries and chemical plants, the U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to authorize the most expensive project ever recommended by the U.S....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 08, 2022
USACE Shores Up Lake Pontchartrain
Three parishes just northwest of New Orleans are perilously situated between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. When hurricanes visit the area, as they regularly do, the 60,000 residents of St....
NOLA.com - Tue October 18, 2022
USACE Building Underwater Levee on Mississippi River in Louisiana To Block Saltwater
A dredging company began construction Oct. 11 on a 1,500-ft.-wide underwater levee designed to block a wedge of Gulf of Mexico saltwater from reaching public and industrial water supply intakes on the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish and New Orleans....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu October 13, 2022
$250M USACE Project Deepens Mississippi from Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the first part of a project to deepen the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico, opening the way for larger vessels from the widened Panama Canal to travel as far north as Baton Rouge....
