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Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority flew over eastern Puerto Rico to inspect power lines. Much of the island remains without electricity several weeks after Hurricane Maria struck.
ST. CROIX, Virgin Islands - Time is running out for Virgin Island hurricane survivors to sign up with Operation Blue Roof for free temporary roofing repairs to their homes. Friday, November 3, is the final day for residents on all U.S. Virgin Islands to apply.
Over the next several months, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority , United States Army Corps of Engineers , the Department of Energy, and private industry will unite to restore emergency power to Puerto Rico's electric grid, which was heavily damaged by hurricanes Irma and Maria. Currently, only 14 percent of Puerto Rico has electricity.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will seek an emergency court order to move about 60 additional graves to repair a landslide threatening a Kentucky cemetery. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the agency will seek the court order to expedite grave relocation from the Wix Howard Cemetery in Loyall to Resthaven Cemetery.
Philadelphia, PA, October 01, 2017 -- -- Rhoads Industries, Inc. , a strategic partner and total solution provider of industrial fabrication, installation and maintenance services and facilities, announced it was awarded a three-year IDIQ contract from the Army Corps of Engineers that will amount to $49 million in Navy work. The contract extends the Company's ten-year relationship with the Navy and will entail supplying skilled labor and custom fabrication to support their activities at the Navy Yard.
A Nebraska lawmaker will fly U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel from Florida to Puerto Rico to help provide recovery and relief efforts to the hurricane-devastated island.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency's continues to coordinate federal support for U.S. Virgin Islands' and Puerto Rico's response efforts. Federal partners are aggressively working to meet and overcome challenges to opening ports and restoring power to bring additional life-saving commodities and personnel into disaster-affected areas.
A federal judge has approved an agreement among local, state, and federal officials to construct an underground drainage system to prevent severe flooding on a New Jersey beach that was caused by the federal government's dune construction project. The judge signed the agreement Wednesday that calls for the federal government to build and pay for underground pipes to prevent storm water from collecting in ponds as it did on the beach at Margate this summer, forcing beachgoers to trudge through bacteria-laden water or take blocks-long detours.
The record-breaking rains Harvey continues to pour onto Houston and the surrounding area have flooded thousands of people out of their homes, with tens of thousands potentially needing to take refuge in shelters. On Sunday night, the US Army Corps of Engineers began a controlled release of water from the dams at the Addicks and Barker reservoirs for the first time ever.
The Loafer Creek boat ramp seen from the old Bidwell Bar Bridge on Feb. 21, is among the Army Corps of Engineers' list of projects that qualify for an emergency permit. Oroville >> Several Lake Oroville recreational improvement projects proposed by the Oroville Recreation Advisory Committee may be sped up with an emergency designation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas' Jefferson County Drainage District 7 are working to repair a damaged floodwall that could leave the city of Port Arthur vulnerable to damage should a hurricane or tropical storm hit. A portion of the concrete floodwall, on Taylor Bayou, was found during routine maintenance earlier this month to be breaking apart .
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Latest on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report proposes steps to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes : The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is recommending a mixture of technologies including loud noises and water jets at a crucial site in Illinois to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.
The Community Strategy Group, an environmental advocay group based in East Chicago, held a protest in front of Congressman Pete Visclosky' office in Merrilville on July 26, 2017. A robust group of protesters gathered outside U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky 's Merrillville office Wednesday afternoon urging him to write a letter seeking to block a federal agency's request for a permit that would allow it to dump more toxic material dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Canal at an East Chicago open-container facility.
On June 27, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt along with the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works signed a proposed rule to rescind the Obama administration "waters of the United States" or "WOTUS" rule. The proposed rule to rescind is consistent with President Trump's Executive Order signed on February 28, 2017, "Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the 'Waters of the United States' Rule."
A live Asian carp has been found closer to Lake Michigan than ever before. Jennifer Caddick, with the Alliance for the Great Lakes, tells WSJM News one was found Thursday at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe achieved a legal victory Tuesday, June 14, in their battle to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile underground oil pipeline that the tribe has claimed threatens its water supply and cultural lands. A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider its environmental analysis of the Energy Transfer Partners ETP pipeline, saying the Corps "did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline's effects are likely to be highly controversial."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported water levels were at 248.78 feet, or 75.83 meters, on Saturday, breaking the record of 248.75 feet, or 75.82 meters, set in 1952. Statistics about water levels on Lake Ontario have been kept since 1918, according to Frank L. Bevacqua, public information officer for the International Joint Commission, who confirmed the record-breaking levels on Monday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to monitor the rising water levels plaguing the shores of Lake Ontario. Technical teams are being deployed Tuesday in St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties in northern New York, Mexico Point in Oswego County on the eastern shore of the lake and at Fair Haven State Park in Wayne County near Rochester on the south shore.
Winona County sheriff's officials say two Wisconsin men were rescued when their boat got stuck in a lock and dam roller gate in Dresbach. Sheriff Ron Ganrude says the men's small boat lost power north of the dam Saturday night and began floating toward the open roller gates.
Sand vacuumed from the bottom of the Housatonic River pours into a central hopper on the dredging vessel Currituck in Stratford, November 13, 2012. Dredging of the lower Houatonic River between Milford and Stratford is scheduled to begin the fall of 2017, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had announced.