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  • February

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    Keeping the river open for business

    The Memphis District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed another important Mississippi River project located just across the Mississippi River from New Madrid, Missouri. The stone dike construction project, named Kentucky Point, Kentucky, was designed to assist in maintaining a safe and reliable navigation channel for commercial towboats in the Mississippi River. It also directly supports the Mississippi River Channel Improvement navigation mission.
  • Emergency Lift Gate Removal

    Emergency Lift Gate Removal

    A crew from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division’s Heavy Capacity Repair Fleet from the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers uses the USACE Floating crane HENRY M. SHREVE to remove an emergency lift gate from the Lake Barkley Lock.

  • Louisville District hosts annual open house

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District held its annual open house Jan. 30 at the
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Johnson Brothers place the final concrete shell on the riverbed of the Tennessee River Feb. 2, 2020 below Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. It is the 10th concrete shell that is part of the permanent downstream lock wall and will double as part of a coffer dam for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Final concrete shell placement sets project back on critical path

    GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2020) – The final concrete shell placement at Kentucky Lock for the downstream cofferdam, which also forms the new lock wall, took place today, a milestone that put the construction project back on track.

  • January

    (Left to Right) Chief Surgeon of the US European Command, Brig. Gen. Ronald Stevens. North Atlantic Division Commander Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Milhorn, Speaker of the Parliament Archil Talakvadze, Georgian Ministry of Defense Irakli Gharibashvili, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, and then-Acting U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Rood cut the ribbon on the Maro Makashvili Wounded Warrior and Rehabilitation Center Jan. 27. (State Department photo by Aka Simonishvili)

    Army Corps of Engineers helps open Wounded Warrior Rehabilitation Center in Republic of Georgia

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) and U.S. Embassy in Georgia cut the ribbon on a 2,050 square-meter modernized wounded warrior rehabilitation center for the Georgian Armed Services, Jan. 27, 2020.