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  • August

    Flood recovery for levees underway in St. Louis District

    As the St. Louis region marks the 20th Anniversary of the 1993 Flood, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing communities for the next flood season.
  • Bjoern Hoffman, left, Bauer Foundation Corporation project manager explains the Bauer MC 128 Hydrocutter to Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, center, deputy commanding general, Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during his July 31, 2013 visit to Nashville District’s Center Hill Dam. Jimmy Waddle, District Engineering and Construction Division chief is at right. The Hydrocutter, largest of its type in the world, which Bauer built specifically for the Center Hill Dam Seepage Rehabilitation project, cuts an approximate 10.5 X 7.25-foot element for the encasement wall in the embankment. Bauer will drill down 300 feet from the top of the earthen portion of the dam, through the encasement wall and up 130 feet into rock and construct concrete piles and panels to form the barrier over the next two years, according to Linda Adcock, Nashville District project manager. (USACE photo by Fred Tucker)

    MG Michael Walsh visits Nashville District

    Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, deputy commanding general for Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was “quite impressed” with his visit to Nashville District July 31, and Aug. 1.
  • Maj. Gen. John Peabody (right), Mississippi Valley Division commander, presented a National Water Safety award to Carma Hanson, Grand Forks Safe Kids coordinator. Also in the photo is Col. Dan Koprowski (left), St. Paul District commander, and the person who nominated Hanson for this award, Scott Tichy, St. Paul District park ranger.

    Corps of Engineers presents Grand Forks, N.D., resident with National Water Safety award

    Maj. Gen. John Peabody, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division commander, presented Carma Hanson of Grand Forks Safe Kids a National Water Safety award on behalf of the National Water Safety Congress at the Grand Forks, N.D., airport July 31.

  • Corps awards contract for work on new electric barrier

    The district awarded a contract July 31, 2013, for construction of water structures as part of a new

  • The Flood of 1993, 20 years later

    Twenty years ago today the Mississippi River reached its highest point in recorded history on the St. Louis gage. The river was only a few feet from the top of the St. Louis flood wall, and had already overwhelmed many smaller levees throughout the region. The Flood of 1993 claimed dozens of lives, incurred billions of dollars in damages, and forever changed many communities along the river.