U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News

St. James Parish residents Tuesday voiced their concerns over U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans that aim to reduce storm surge risk from area lakes.

GULFPORT - A public hearing is scheduled for tomorrow on the state port's proposal to study deepening the ship channel to as much as 47 feet.

Conditions are near perfect for a toxic red tide bloom off the coast of Lee County.

Nimrod Dam was a subject of amazement for Arkansans when it was completed 71 years ago, forming Lake Nimrod in western Perry and eastern Yell counties.

KEEPING OUR WATER Kudos the the U.S. Senate for putting the brakes on a plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to charge fees for access to water in upper Missouri River reservoirs.

Climate change is a stark reality in America's northernmost state. Nearly 90 percent of native Alaskan villages are on the coast, where dramatic erosion and floods have become a part of daily life.

Parsons, as the managing partner in a joint venture , was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , Middle East District, for general architecture-engineering construction phase support services throughout the Transatlantic Division Middle East District area of responsibility .

Work to repair ocean beaches and dunes in three Long Beach Island communities will begin before the end of May, officials have confirmed.

The past few years of little rainfall haven't been good for Skiatook Lake. Grass and weeds are growing up in places that should be covered with water.

Radioactive materials from the nation's atomic weapons program, known as the Manhattan Project, are buried beneath a 10-acre clay cap hill in the Town of Lewiston.

It's something those who say they are dealing with the effects of growing up or living surrounded by nuclear contamination and radioactive waste are struggling to get closer to: federal attention to what is, and has been taking place in North County.

An effort to alter the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's requirements for a permit so work could begin on the Commonwealth Crossing Business Centre has been unsuccessful, Henry County Administrator Tim Hall said Thursday.

For many years, climate change has displaced millions in the developing world - and now America is seeing its first climate refugees .

Hydrologists at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell say the Atchafalaya River is expected to crest at 6 feet here early next week.

US Army Corps of Engineers tours flooded areas in Burlington, North Dakota in 2011.

Sacramento-area officials with the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based professional services and design consultant company Stantec Inc.

AeroMetric presented the St. Louis U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with special recognition including an inscribed award and project poster for "Creating an On Target Geospatial Foundation for the Navajo Housing Authority." The award and poster were duplicates of the ones that AeroMetric was honored with the at the MAPPS conference in November 2012.

If all goes as hoped, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could begin emergency beach nourishment to Sunset Beach and Sunshine Beach in Treasure Island as early as September.

Miller, 61, serves as JaxPort senior director of facilities development and served as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District commander from 1997-2000. During that time he contributed to the development of the Everglades Restoration Plan and Hurricane Georges Emergency Recovery Operation in Puerto Rico.

CRANFORD - Plans to help alleviate flooding in several municipalities in the Rahway River watershed area are moving forward with detailed studies on several proposed projects to be completed by September.