Noe Gonzalez - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Wed June 04, 2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Invests $205M in Kentucky, Tennessee Projects
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District received $205 million in the fiscal year 2025 Work Plan for Army Civil Works, supporting infrastructure, navigation, flood risk management, hydropower, recreation and environmental stewardship within the Cumberland River Basin in Tennessee and Kentucky....
U.S. Air Force - Thu May 29, 2025
Central Georgia's Robins Air Force Base Site of New Battle Management Complex
A groundbreaking ceremony was held May 19, 2025, at Robins Air Force Base in central Georgia to mark the beginning of construction for a new Battle Management Combined Operations Complex (BMCOC), the U.S....
CEG - Fri May 23, 2025
Maine U.S. Senator Helped Fund Shore Repairs, Create Composite Bridge Research Partnership
Millions of dollars are coming to Saco, Maine, to prevent erosion at its Camp Ellis neighborhood on the state's coast, south of Portland. Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced May 15, 2025, that $23 million in federal funding would be used for the U.S....
USACE - Tue April 29, 2025
Kiewit Wins $404M USACE Contract for Port Arthur Project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District (SWG) awarded a $403,944,000 contract to Kiewit U.S. Contractors Co., April 9, 2025, to construct additional portions of the Port Arthur Project, a component of the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay (S2G) Coastal Storm Risk Management Project....
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Tue April 15, 2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kicks Off Year Long Celebration of 250 Years of Service to Nation
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is highlighting 250 years of service to the nation by celebrating its birthday throughout 2025. USACE was established on June 16, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized the first chief engineer to oversee the construction of fortifications and other military infrastructure....
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk - Mon April 14, 2025
Mississippi River Officials, Town Mayors Worry Over Loss of Flood-Control Funding
An official with the federal Mississippi River Commission (MRC) is warning of a potential backlog for flood–control work as its budget flatlines. The concerns come as portions of the lower river basin face increased flood risk and mayors in towns and cities along the Mississippi are lobbying Congress for more funding for flood control....
Virginia DCR & Norfolk Daily Press - Tue March 04, 2025
Army Corp Removes Storm Debris From Va.'s Claytor Lake
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in partnership with three other federal and Virginia state agencies, has completed post-Hurricane Helene debris removal at Claytor Lake and demobilized the operations center at Claytor Lake State Park....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Tue February 11, 2025
USACE Begins Work On Mississippi River's Lock & Dam 25 in Missouri
The mighty Mississippi River requires mighty-strong manmade structures to corral it and to withstand the volume and pressure of water exerted upon them. It follows that the simple addition and lengthening of a lock for faster handling of river vessels is a mighty undertaking, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar one....
Metro Flood Diversion - Tue February 11, 2025
FM Area Diversion Project Releases Construction Update
With the removal of an earthen plug, the first two of 14 reaches of the stormwater diversion channel will become a functioning internal watershed. That means rainfall and runoff events for close to another 3 mi....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed January 29, 2025
USACE Works to Stabilize Banks of Missouri River
Since the 1800s, the Missouri River has been an important means of transporting people and goods from its source in Montana and the Dakotas to St. Louis where it joins the Mississippi River. Some 2,300 mi....
