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  • Army Corps awards $4.6 million contract for the maintenance dredging of East Rockaway Inlet, New York federal navigation channel

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has awarded a contract for $4.6 million to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill., for the maintenance dredging of the East Rockaway Inlet federal navigation channel with the dredged sand being placed along eroded areas of Rockaway Beach.

  • Corps of Engineers support canoeists, kayakers,

    Controlled releases of water will be made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, from Ball Mountain Dam and Townshend Lake reservoirs in Jamaica and Townshend, Vermont, on Saturday, Sept. 29 to provide adequate river flows for recreational canoeing, kayaking and rafting, according to Corps of Engineers officials.

  • Data buoy off Rhode Island coast providing

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies deployed a data buoy off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, three years ago to gather information on wave action for a Corps study and the scientific instrument has been providing useful information to scientists, mariners and the general public since that time.

  • Volunteers needed for National Public Lands Day

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Jennings Randolph Lake announces their 19th Annual National Public Lands Day celebration where the staff at Jennings Randolph Lake with the Boy Scouts of America and the Friends of Jennings Randolph Lake will clean-up the shoreline along the North Branch of the Potomac River in Barnum, West Virginia on Saturday, September 29, 2012.

  • Norfolk District, Virginia Beach Public Works announce beach replenishment contract award

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Virginia Beach Public Works Department have announced the awarding of an $11.9 million contract for resort beach replenishment in Virginia Beach to Weeks Marine of Camden, New Jersey.

  • Corps awards $30.9 million contract for Muddy River Flood

    Phase 1 of the Muddy River Flood Risk Management and Environmental Restoration project in Boston and Brookline, Mass., will be constructed under the terms of a $30,961,340.00 contract issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District.

  • Army Corps to hold ribbon cutting ceremony at Prompton Dam

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District will host a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11:00 a.m. Aug. 22 at Prompton Dam. The ceremony recognizes the completion of a two-phase construction project which included modifying the dam spillway, building an operations center and maintenance garage and constructing a new access road and spillway bridge to the dam.

  • Army Corps, NJDEP sign cost-sharing agreement to officially begin a reevaluation of comprehensive flood risk management solutions for the Passaic River Basin

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have both signed a cost-sharing agreement that officially begins the Passaic River Basin General Reevaluation Study, analyzing and comparing flood risk management alternatives for communities throughout the basin.

  • Army Corps Promotes Recreation Water Safety

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park rangers and volunteers will be working this summer season to increase visitor's awareness of the importance of practicing safe and sensible recreation activities in and around Army Corps waters.

  • Army Corps awards $28 million contract for construction of new

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has awarded an approximately 156 million Danish Kroner contract (approximately $28 million) contract to contractor MT Højgaard Gronland A/S of Søborg, Denmark, for the construction of a new Air Force dormitory at Thule Air Base in Greenland.