Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 04, 2020
USACE Repairs Levee Breaches in Nebraska
Although much work remains following last year's devastating flooding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Omaha District, has officially closed breaches on the Missouri River Levee System L575....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu January 09, 2020
After 18-Month Pause, Dredging Resumes at Port of Savannah
Dredging to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah has resumed after an 18-month pause, Col. Daniel Hibner of the Army Corps of Engineers recently announced as the second half of the $973 million expansion has started to get under way....
Jeff Bohlken – USACE - Wed January 08, 2020
Winter Doesn't Put Freeze on Flood Repairs
When the unprecedented and historical flooding started in the Missouri and Platte River basins in March 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Omaha District responded immediately. Within hours, the District, led by the Readiness Branch, was developing plans and sending materials out to fight the flood and provide assistance to communities within harm's way....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 26, 2019
USACE Keeps Indiana Harbor, Canal Clean
Monitoring efforts are under way following completion of this season's dredging operations at Indiana Harbor and Canal (IHC) in East Chicago, Ind. It is one of the most polluted waterways in the Great Lakes area....
Associated Press - Wed December 11, 2019
USACE Awards 2nd Contract for $2.75B Red River Diversion
FARGO, N.D. (AP) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded its second contract for a Red River diversion project around the flood-prone Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., metropolitan area. The Corps announced that the more than $59 million project to build a flow control structure on the Wild Rice River will be built by Ames Construction Inc., based out of Burnsville, Minn....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon December 02, 2019
Morganza to the Gulf Protection Project Yields Billions in Work Contracts in La.
The Terrebonne Levee & Conservation District (TLCD) and the Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) are taking the lead on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $10.3 billion Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project in Louisiana, which so far has received an investment of more than $450 million in construction work for levees and floodgates....
ARTBA - Mon September 16, 2019
Repeal of 2015 Wetlands Proposal Will Help Restore Transportation Project Certainty, ARTBA Says
The Trump administration's repeal of a 2015 proposed rule will help restore clarity to federal wetlands regulations and reduce delays to important transportation projects, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said....
ARTBA - Thu August 22, 2019
A U.S. Federal Court Strikes Down Wetlands Proposal for the Second Time in Three Months
A federal district judge has ruled an Obama administration-era wetlands regulation fails to comply with the law, handing the 2015 directive its second defeat since May. The decision is a win for the nation's transportation construction industry, which is fighting the regulation because it could subject roadside ditches to federal regulations, causing delays and driving up project costs....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 07, 2019
Army Corps' First-Ever P3 Project Presses On
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $2,841,062,000 (current estimate) Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project is pressing forward, and one of the ongoing elements is the $46,040,475 Diversion Inlet Structure (DIS) initiative in the city of Horace, N.D....
Port of Brownsville - Tue July 16, 2019
Port of Brownsville Reaches Milestone in Deepening Project
The Port of Brownsville is closer to deepening the Brownsville Ship Channel after receiving a key permit June 6 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to advance the Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement Project (BIH) to its construction phase....
