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  • October

    The first-ever traffic roundabout at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. is now open to traffic. The $1.8 million project took just under eight months to complete.

    FLW roundabout opens to traffic

    Detour signs came down Friday, Oct. 14, marking the opening of Fort Leonard Wood’s first roundabout in the vicinity of Alabama, Iowa and Nebraska avenues. Completion of the nearly eight-month project is expected to help lessen traffic snares associated with

  • IIS program growing in Louisville

    The Louisville District Interagency and International Services program is growing. With 11 active projects totaling approximately $69 million under the IIS umbrella in fiscal year 2016, the district is ensuring full visibility, transparency and leadership oversight on the program.
  • Contractors seed the soil cover at the former Lockbourne landfill, Columbus, Ohio, in August 2016.

    All sealed up: Lockbourne landfill cap complete

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, is putting the finishing touches on a 23-acre
  • Pictured is a segment of the precast concrete arch culvert the Corps constructed as part of the flood risk management project in Cincinnati. The joints between the sections have separated and the alignment has shifted. Erosion is also present at right.

    Corps consults with City of Cincinnati on repair process after flood event

    The Corps of Engineers Louisville District is working with the City of Cincinnati to assess damages to a short section of the Duck Creek Levee System. The Duck Creek project was damaged by heavy rains from a storm that passed through the area on Aug. 28. Construction of the project was complete in 2011.
  • The steam work boat lifts the smaller wickets near the bear trap section of the dam to retain pool depth for navigation at Locks and Dam 52 on the Ohio River at Brookport, Illinois.

    Corps reopens river after emergency closure, hopes for best, prepares for worst

    In a proactive move to deter another river closure caused by aging infrastructure, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, contractors installed anchors in the lower Ohio River bed at Locks and Dam 52, Brookport, Illinois, to assist the Corps workboat when raising the wicket dam during less-than-favorable conditions.