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  • February

    The Dredge Yaquina facing seaward in Vigor Shipyard’s dry dock.

    Maintaining the ships that maintain Western and Pacific shipping channels

    The Corps' dredges Essayons and Yaquina go into dry dock every winter for maintenance so they are ready when spring comes to dredge vital shipping channels in Oregon, California, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.

  • Recently published handbook on coral reef impacts

    A team of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' regulators and planners worked for several years with the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Injury and Mitigation Working Group in the development of a new recently published handbook entitled "Handbook on Coral Reef Impacts: Avoidance, Minimization, Compensatory Mitigation, and Restoration", dated December 2016.
  • A pipeline dredge pumps material from the Pascagoula River onto the Round Island beneficial-use site Jan. 27, 2017. Dredging of the harbor and construction of the site was a collaboration between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, and several other agencies. Upon completion, the beneficial-use site will be a thriving saltwater tidal marsh for wildlife.

    USACE, Mississippi projects converge to yield mutual benefits

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, is scheduled to wrap up the Pascagoula River Leg Deepening Project in March. The project never would have happened without a little ingenuity and a willingness to work with others.
  • Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents achievement awards to Eric Crafton and Mary Katherine Keith during a staff meeting Feb. 16, 2017 at the Nashville District Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. They were two of seven team members who developed a groundbreaking land exchange process that enabled the Nashville District to obtain land needed for a roller compacted concrete berm adjacent to the Center Hill Lake saddle dam at Lancaster, Tenn.

    Real Estate team lauded for groundbreaking land exchange process

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 24, 2017) -- The “Center Hill Land Exchange Real Estate Delivery Team” recently received a team achievement award for its groundbreaking land exchange process from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division.
  • Two men stand in front of the lower gates of the Davis Lock in the spring of 1914.

    Soo Locks historic images brought to life

    For years, several hundred images from construction and operations of the historic Soo Locks stayed