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House Authorizes Defense Bill, Includes Ike Dike Protection

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Associated Press - 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 ...

USACE Shores Up Lake Pontchartrain

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Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - 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. Charles, St. John the Baptist and St. James parishes head for higher ground. Though ...

USACE Building Underwater Levee on Mississippi River in Louisiana To Block Saltwater

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NOLA.com - 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. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer...

$250M USACE Project Deepens Mississippi from Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico

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Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - 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. "We've reached it from New Orleans...

Army Corps of Engineers Proposes $52B Barriers for NY-NJ Waterways

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Gothamist - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) released a report Sept. 24 detailing the agency's proposed $52 billion plan to protect the New York City metropolitan area from storm surges and coastal flooding. The study marks a major step forward in a long-delayed plan first proposed i...

Officials Tour Potential Sites for 70-Mi. Flood Solution

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Cruz.senate. org - Sen. Ted Cruz, Congressman Randy Weber and State Rep. Mayes Middleton met with leadership from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District to visit possible construction sites for the coastal barrier known as the Ike Dike. The 70-mi.-long barrier was first proposed after Hurricane...

USACE Begins Final Stage of $529M, 17-Mile Flood Protection Project in Kansas City

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Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Reconstructing a levee along a river, or erecting a concrete flood wall, is not a monumental task, certainly not for experienced engineers and contractors working under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. However, throw in hundreds of intersecting utility lines, railroad...

Several West Virginia Projects Part of Federal Water Infrastructure Measures

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MetroNews - Congress is closer to sending a measure to President Biden for his signature that would perform work on various water projects across the country, including several in West Virginia. Senators overwhelmingly passed the Water Resources Development Act July 25 that authorizes the U.S. Army C...

USACE Awards $1.068B of New Soo Lock Phase 3 Contract

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Detroit District anticipates Phase 3 construction will start this summer with the $1.068 billion of the New Lock at the Soo Phase 3 contract award July 1, 2022. Kokosing Alberici Traylor LLC (KAT), a joint venture headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, w...

Lock, Dam Construction Progresses in Kentucky

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Ruksana Hussain - CEG Correspondent - The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is busy powering ahead on construction at the Kentucky Lock and Dam Project in western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes to help address some of the longest shipping delays in the country. The lock was first constructed by the Tennessee Valley...