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Corps of Engineers to Nourish Rollover Pass Beaches

A Galveston District Corps of Engineers emergency maintenance dredging project in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Rollover Pass will provide a double benefi t to that area. (read more)

Corps of Engineers to Dredge Brazos Island Harbor Area, Nourish Padre Beaches

The Galveston District Army Corps of Engineers has undertaken emergency maintenance dredging of the Brazos Island Harbor area from the Brownsville Jetty to Port Isabel. (read more)

Corps of Engineers, GLO Enter Agreement on Oil Field Development Permits

Oil Field Deveoplment

The Permit Assistance Group, an interagency team created by the Coastal Coordination Council, reached a streamlining milestone for coastal environmental permits on Oct. 28 ...
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Combined Federal Campaign

Combined Federal Campaign

Exceedingly generous Lt. Col. Edward P. Feigenbaum, center right, deputy commander of the Galveston District Army Corps of Engineers, receives a certifi cate from Larry Shaw, Houston United Way, in recognition of the District's contrbutions to the Combined Federal Campaign
this year. (read more)

Red, White and Blue

Photo. From left, in red, Jennie Nowakowski (LRD), Mary Ellen Farmer (LRN), Belinda Taylor (SAM), Doug Ward (SAW), in white, Lisa Yoakum (SWL), Bonnie Ingalls (NWP), Nancy Knapik (NWW), Elizabeth Shelton (SWG), in blue, Harvey Edwards, Jeff Cross, John Pattie and Scott O’Meara all Department of the Interior. (USACE photo)

The old saying, “It takes all kinds,” certainly held true for staffing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hurricane Ike Recovery Field Office in Pasadena, Texas. It was manned by volunteers from as far away as Hawaii in the west to New England in the East. (read more)

Galveston District Employees Endure Hurricane Ike

Photo. Loretta Buddenhagen and her husband George look over their home in “Fish Village” as they determine what repairs need to be made.

Loretta Buddenhagen remembers most the Beanie Babies, several hundred of them that she had collected over the years for her daughter Jillian, now 19. (read more)

The "Hurricane Heroes" Work To Open Waterways

Photo. Galveston District employee Ryan Hatch prepares the Vollert to get underway for the Port Of Houston in anticipation of Hurricane Ike. The District’s Area Office took the Vollert and assets to Houston to ride out the storm.

Working out of a crammed office at the Addicks Field Office in west Houston, a small band of Galveston District employees performed a huge mission ... (read more)

Galveston District Takes On Ike

Standing sentinel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, a pair of granite pillars frame a gateway of sorts to the Gulf of Mexico. (read more)

PaceSetter Magazine 
December 2008 PaceSetter Magazine 

December 2008 Edition

  • Happy Holidays to all of the SWD Family
  • And did I mention refrigerators?
  • SWD employees who volunteered for Hurricane Ike

(read more)


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Volunteer Opportunities  

Gulf Region Division's
South District
Volunteer Opportunities

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is
inviting Corps employees, those of
other federal agencies, and those
from the private sector to consider
serving our country as a civilian
in GRD's South District.

Important work is being conducted
to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and
a variety of specialties are required.

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Hot Topics 
Hydrographic Survey Data - The Galveston District has a web site for ports, pilots, coast guard, shippers, and other commercial users.
Mouth of the Colorado River Final Environmental Assessment.
Draft Master Plan Revision Addicks and Barker Reservoirs Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries Fort Bend and Harris Counties, Texas
Draft Environmental Assessment for Master Plan Revision Addicks and Barker Reservoirs Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries Fort Bend and Harris Counties, Texas
Proposed agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, and the Port of Victoria/Victoria County Navigation District to transfer funds pursuant to Section 214 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000
Restoration of the Mouth of the San Bernard River to the Gulf of Mexico Draft Environmental Assessment
Texas City Channel Deepening Project General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Assessment

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