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ST. PAUL DISTRICT - Mississippi River Headwaters parks recognized with safety award

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently selected its southern Headwaters recreation section as its 2012 Government Employee Safety Now Award recipient.
Published: 2/12/2013

NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT - Contract awarded for seepage cutoff work on Lake Pontchartrain levee

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $2.2 million contract to Louisiana-based Phylway Constructors LLC to build seepage cutoff measures along the Lake Pontchartrain levee from Franklin Ave to the Seabrook Floodgate Complex. Construction is expected to be complete by late summer 2013.
Published: 2/8/2013

VICKSBURG DISTRICT - U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District upgrades website

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Headquarters, USACE Divisions, USACE Districts and some USACE research centers are migrating their main public websites to a new, cloud-based system called the American Forces Public Information Management System (AFPIMS). This new system will create consistency, streamline content management, easier updating of web pages, better audio and video accessibility and deliver a richer user-friendly site.
Published: 2/8/2013

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Recent rainfall provides improved outlook for Mississippi River navigation

Recent weather events across the Mississippi Valley will ensure continuing navigation on the Mississippi River through mid-February, even if no additional rain falls between now and Feb. 15.
Published: 1/18/2013

Dredges move mountains of sand, keep navigation channel open

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deployed as many as 25 dredges during the past nine months to maintain the Mississippi River’s navigation channel and re-open sand-choked harbors between St. Louis and the Gulf of Mexico in response to one of our nation’s most severe droughts.
Published: 1/18/2013

Critical rock removal work progressing efficiently resulting in open channel

The first phase of the most critical rock removal work on the Mississippi River near Thebes, Ill., has been completed ahead of schedule, providing mariners with additional depth in the navigation channel.
Published: 1/14/2013
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Biologists from the Minnesota and Wisconsin natural resources departments, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service relocated a number of federally endangered mussels in St. Paul, Minn., at Pool 2 on the Upper Mississippi.
Angie Rodgers of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, also Assistant Coordinator of the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee, holds a federally endangered pallid sturgeon.
A drought equal to or worse than any in the last 50 years has reduced flows on the Mississippi River, creating sandbars, uncovering the occasional historic treasure and making navigation particularly tricky for barges carrying goods on the nationally critical water highway.
MONS, Belgium -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing a major push into upgrading decades-old buildings on the NATO base here as part of an endeavor that will have a lasting impact on the culture and mission of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, military and education leaders say.
Maj. Gen. Peabody, Commanding General for the Mississippi Valley Division, drives an anchor for High Performance Turf Reinforcement Material (HPTRM) that will be used to armor levees in Southeast Louisiana while project manager, Sohelia Holley, and her team review his work.
The USACE Chief of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick (center), joined Mississippi Valley Division Commander, John W. Peabody (left), and St. Louis District Commander, Chris Hall (right), in Thebes, Ill. on January 6 to inspect the rock removal work that will deepen the river by up to two feet and aid navigation on the Middle Mississippi River.
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The USACE Chief of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick (center), joined Mississippi Valley Division Commander, John W. Peabody (right), and St. Louis District Commander, Chris Hall (left), in Thebes, Ill., on January 6 to inspect the rock removal work that will deepen the river by up to two feet and aid navigation on the Middle Mississippi River.
The removal of 890 cubic yards of limestone from the navigation channel on the Mississippi River near Thebes, Ill., began Dec. 17, 2012. This is just one phase of the action the Corps is taking to improve the navigation channel for the river industry.
One of many rocks removed from the Middle Mississippi River during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
Routine maintenance dredging was conducted below Locks and Dam 15 in September by St. Paul District
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. John Peabody (at podium) and St. Louis District Commander Col. Chris Hall met with state and local representatives Dec. 18, 2012, in Alton, Ill., to discuss current and future actions the Corps will take to maintain a safe and reliable navigation channel during low water. The meeting, which was led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), was also attended by Capt. Byron Black, U.S. Coast Guard commander of the Upper Mississippi River Sector, Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.), Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon (D-Ill.) and river industry representatives.
Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (far right), visits with Don Ayres, a member of the Logistics Prepared Readiness Team from the St. Louis District (far left), Nov 3 at the North Atlantic Division Headquarters.
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