U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News

A federal claims judge has awarded a $7.3 million judgment to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The St. Paul district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has prepared an environmental assessment on a project to stop erosion that threatens a road along the Elk River.

The vision for a new and improved Hamilton Dam has inched one step closer to reality, with another half-million in funding now working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

The St. Paul district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has prepared an environmental assessment on a project to stop erosion that threatens a road along the Elk River.

As part of its ongoing efforts to protect human health and the environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has posted a list of 44 "high hazard potential" impoundments containing coal combustion residuals, commonly referred to as coal ash, at 26 different coal burning electric utility facilities.

A health advisory prompted by high algae levels found in Lost Creek Lake, located 30 miles northeast of Medford, was lifted today by the Oregon Department of Human Services and the Jackson County Health Department.

Fish biologist Greg Taylor knows better than most how the 13 dams on the Willamette River have blocked salmon from their historic habitat.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel, members of the media and a representative for U.S. Congressman Ron Paul were on hand to witness the reinstallation of a set of rehabilitated gates at the Colorado River Locks Wednesday morning, June 24.

The Minnesota-based division of Honeywell International Inc. on Friday announced a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to install facility monitoring and controls at federal facilities.

According to an e-mail sent late Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Justice to several plaintiffs in a lawsuit, the department will not appeal an earlier U.S. District Court's ruling in March that said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" when it granted a permit for the King William Reservoir in 2005.

NEW ORLEANS a ' Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has expressed concern that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is moving too slowly in its work to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes and that the work might be inadequate.

Lake Tahoe's economy could lose tens of millions of dollars annually if invasive mussels become established in the lake's famed blue waters, a new report said.

KAUKAUNA - The Detroit District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says there is no need to sound alarms because five Fox River dams are rated in the "urgent" category for repairs.

Two years after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted dredging projects in Missouri aimed at restoring habitat for an endangered fish along the Missouri River, Sen.

Dave Wedan and his electrofishing crew found about 150 round goby Wednesday morning on a stretch of the Des Plaines River in Joliet.

A proposed water pipeline from southern Colorado to Colorado Springs has a new opponent.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, deemed five dams on the Lower Fox River as "urgently" in need of repair.

Coburn's list targets projects from coast to coast, and he says those unnecessary projects are costing taxpayers more than $5 billion.

A federal judge in Miami has lifted an injunction that prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a one-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades.