U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News

One of the biggest fish of all may be getting away. DNA evidence says the dreaded Asian carp may have slipped through the $9 million dollar electronic barrier system designed to hook the invasive fish before they infiltrate Lake Michigan.

Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.

Flooding in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina resulted in billions of dollars of damage.

A U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was negligent in maintaining a key navigational channel in New Orleans and was liable for some damage caused by massive flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Philadelphia and Baltimore Districts use mapping and analysis to help the Northeast prepare for - and recover from - big storms.

As it runs through Watsonville and neighboring Pajaro, the Pajaro River is most famous for devastating floods and the homeless encampments and crime on its banks.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District has awarded a contract for architect-engineer services for the design of the future headquarters of the U.S. Army Pacific.

" A section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is planned to be closed to all traffic, weather permitting, beginning December 2 for a period of four to five days.

The city of Jeffersonville recently applied to the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers to build a new north-south route through a protected wetlands.

Seated in the front row at the Nov 9, meeting to determine the future of Dworshak State Park are Steve Klatt, Chairman of the Board - Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation ; Nancy Merrill, Director IDPR; and Dave Ricks, Deputy Director IDPR.

Recent graduates of the National Military Academy Afghanistan spend six months with USACE Afghanistan Engineer District-North. New engineers work on Corps projects from design to water resource management.

The public library here is receiving a facelift that highlights the buildinga s 72-year heritage while hiding modern amenities.

After decades of talk, Seguin is able to take another step forward with work on the Walnut Branch Linear Park restoration project.

A South Mississippi company is putting the cap on the largest design-build civil works project in the history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Thirteen homeowner groups and conservation organizations representing Southwest Florida citizens have formally requested for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a permit review of applications to strip mine phosphate ore from Florida watersheds.

Ida was 153km southwest of Mobile, Alabama at 5pm AEDT, moving north at a speed of 16 km/h with sustained winds of 96km/h, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has closed the London Avenue Canal gates because of rising water and increasing winds from Tropical Storm Ida, officials said Monday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is improving quality of life and the environment here through the renovation of the Nasiriyah Meat Processing Plant.

A ballet of sorts was under way at the Markland Dam, where crews are inspecting a broken gate for the first time since it failed on Sept.

A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and steelhead during the spring of 2009 - 2.4 percent of the fish passing the dam located near Cascade Locks, Ore.