Corps New Orleans district planning programs and project management chief Beth Wiggins said the funds will be used to restore levees, improve canals and expand pump stations.Santora, TommyNew Orleans C...
Army Corps of Engineers for allegedly violating the Endangered Species Act and other laws when it adopted a policy requiring the removal of trees and shrubs from federal levees (California Department of Fish and Game v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, E.D. Cal., No. 12-cv-01396, 5/22/...
Along the Mississippi there are six corps districts from Saint Paul to New Orleans. Each district manages a stretch of river with a mix of dams, locks, levees, and dredged channels. In all, there are 4,200 miles of channel, 62 locks, 51 shallow-draft ports, and 7 deep-draft ports. T...
For decades, L.B. Foster Company has played an integral role in supporting many of the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) infrastructure projects ranging from North American inland waterways (ports, dams, and levees), to international military marine applications. L.B. Foster w...
Army Corps officials and engineering experts will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which is investigating the government's response to the hurricane, including the failure of New Orleans levees. The Army Corps is described as the part of the Army with...
Army Corps Scrambles to Head Off Flooding.The article reports on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana on May 9, 2011 to reduce pressure on levees in New Orleans.BARRETTJOEEBSCO_AspWall Street Journal Eastern Edition...
Alex Breitler
In a sweeping new study of the causes of the disaster in New Orleans last year, the Army Corps of Engineers concludes that the levees it built in the city were an incomplete patchwork of protection, containing flaws...
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has 704 dams in their inventory and over 100,000 miles of levees with a capital value of over $150 billion. Currently, there are 319 dams that are classified as high hazard and have actionable failure modes that will require structural modifications. ...
When the levees break--again.(reports of Army. Corps of Engineers about hurricanes)Grinberg, Maya