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  • 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.

  • Corps’ New England District suspends nationwide

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has reissued its Nationwide Permits (NWPs), authorizing work in streams, wetlands and other waters of the United States under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The new NWPs took effect March 19, 2012 replacing the existing 2007 NWPs.

  • NGA Campus East project honored at annual conference

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East project at Fort Belvoir, Va., was awarded the Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award and the Alliant Build America Award for Building Construction–New at the Associated General Contractors of America’s (AGC) 93rd Annual Convention March 15, 2012.

  • Corps of Engineers publishes northcentral, northeast regional supplement to the Wetland Delineation Manual

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District announces the availability of the Regional Supplement to the Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual: Northcentral and Northeast Region, Version 2.0.