Area of Responsibility

The New England District (NAE) is responsible for managing the Corps' civil responsibilities in a 66,000 square-mile region encompassing the six New England states east of the Lake Champlain drainage basin. The region has:

• 6,100 miles of coastline
  
• 11 deep water ports
  
• 102 recreational and small commercial harbors with Corps improvements
  
• 13 major river basins
  
• thousands of miles of rivers and streams

The District and its leadership are headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts. It employs about 600 professional civilian employees with several military officers serving in key management positions. Seventy-five percent of the staff is stationed at the Concord headquarters while the others serve at Corps projects and area offices throughout the region.