Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk - Mon April 14, 2025
Mississippi River Officials, Town Mayors Worry Over Loss of Flood-Control Funding
An official with the federal Mississippi River Commission (MRC) is warning of a potential backlog for flood–control work as its budget flatlines. The concerns come as portions of the lower river basin face increased flood risk and mayors in towns and cities along the Mississippi are lobbying Congress for more funding for flood control....
Virginia DCR & Norfolk Daily Press - Tue March 04, 2025
Army Corp Removes Storm Debris From Va.'s Claytor Lake
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in partnership with three other federal and Virginia state agencies, has completed post-Hurricane Helene debris removal at Claytor Lake and demobilized the operations center at Claytor Lake State Park....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Tue February 11, 2025
USACE Begins Work On Mississippi River's Lock & Dam 25 in Missouri
The mighty Mississippi River requires mighty-strong manmade structures to corral it and to withstand the volume and pressure of water exerted upon them. It follows that the simple addition and lengthening of a lock for faster handling of river vessels is a mighty undertaking, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar one....
Metro Flood Diversion - Tue February 11, 2025
FM Area Diversion Project Releases Construction Update
With the removal of an earthen plug, the first two of 14 reaches of the stormwater diversion channel will become a functioning internal watershed. That means rainfall and runoff events for close to another 3 mi....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed January 29, 2025
USACE Works to Stabilize Banks of Missouri River
Since the 1800s, the Missouri River has been an important means of transporting people and goods from its source in Montana and the Dakotas to St. Louis where it joins the Mississippi River. Some 2,300 mi....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu January 02, 2025
$954M Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project Continues
Seventeen years after construction began on the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is about to award the final contract. "We're expecting C.J. Mahan, the external approach wall contractor, to be off site in the summer of 2026," said Joseph Cotton, project manager for the U.S....
Metro Flood Diversion Authority - Mon December 30, 2024
VIDEO: Metro Flood Diversion Authority Releases 2024-End Updates
Sixty-eight individual components of the $3.2 billion Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion were worked on in 2024. That's just one highlight of the year that saw more visible construction progress than ever before on major flood protection infrastructure for the Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., metro area....
USACE Pittsburgh District - Wed December 18, 2024
Pittsburgh-Based Joint Venture Set to Build New $770M Lock Chamber at Ohio River Dam
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pittsburgh District has awarded a nearly $770 million contract through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to construct a new 110-ft. by 600-ft....
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Mon December 09, 2024
Chickamauga Lock Project in Tennessee Reaches Milestone With Delivery of New Miter Gates
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Nashville District, in partnership with Shimmick Construction Co. in Irvine, Calif., and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is making significant strides in the efforts to replace the Chickamauga Lock in Chattanooga, Tenn....
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Wed October 09, 2024
Army Corps of Engineers Directing Two Enhancement Projects Near Philadelphia
The Philadelphia District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on Oct. 7 announced news about two local projects — one each in Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania. Last year, USACE awarded a $5.3 million contract to Agate Construction Co....
