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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards Contract for Puerto Rico Power Restoration

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CEG - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in coordination with the Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, has awarded a contract toward the repair of the power grid in Puerto Rico.The contract for $240 million has been awarded to Fluor Corporation, headquartered in Irving, Texas....

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Appoints New Cmdr. of New England District

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CEG - In a Change of Command ceremony July 19 at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Mass., District Commander Col. Christopher J. Barron passed the command flag, signifying change of command authority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New England, to new District Commander Col. William M. Conde. Presiding ov...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Studies Dam Safety in North Texas

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CEG - LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) Experts are conducting a safety modification study on a Dallas-area dam where repairs continue following a 160-ft. (49 m) landslide that raised concerns about more soil slipping.The Denton Record-Chronicle reported that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are conc...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Drafts Hydrema 922s for Duty

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CEG - When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needed to restore the site of an abandoned copper mine in eastern Vermont, it called on Northwoods Excavating to handle the remediation. The job entailed capping the mine and laying a bed of vegetation atop the former environmentally unsafe area to restore th...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Proposes $62.4M MRGO Project

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CEG - NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Army Corps of Engineers wants to spend $62.4 million on wetland restoration and shoreline protection along Lake Borgne and the soon-to-be-closed Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.The proposal, part of a draft environmental impact statement, is seen as a first step in a lar...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s Final Report on MRGO Heads to Congress

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CEG - NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Army Corps of Engineers is closer to shutting down a navigation channel blamed for much of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina.On June 5, the corps’ report on de-authorizing the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) was forwarded to Congress, allowing the corps ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rehabilitates Wolf Creek Dam

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Dorinda Anderson - Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in south central Kentucky, is in the beginning stages of a $309 million repair project to control dangerous seepage under the structure’s mi.-long earth embankment. If left unchecked the seepage could threaten the embankment.Seepage caused by th...

USACE Awards Next Contract for 'New Lock at the Soo'

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District's New Lock at the Soo project in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., awarded a $213.8 million contract Option 1B (Chamber Wall Monoliths) to Kokosing Alberici Traylor LLC (KAT) of Westerville, Ohio. Contract Option 1B includes construction of the lock w...

After Building Massachusetts City's Flood Controls, USACE Returns for Its Modernization

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WAMC Northeast Public Radio - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) kicked off a three-year feasibility study on modernizing the crumbling flood control system in North Adams, Mass., with a site visit Aug. 25. The USACE first built the concrete chutes that channel the Hoosic River through the western Massachusetts ...

USACE Kicks Off $900M Upgrade to Aging Upper Ohio River's Navigation System

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District - A groundbreaking ceremony near Pittsburgh Aug. 11 set the stage for upgrading the Ohio River's oldest navigation system in 2024 at a cost of more than $900 million. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District, welcomed industry, community and political leaders for th...