Dredge vacuums Milford Harbor sand
Visitors tour the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers special-purpose dredge Currituck docked at the Milford Yacht Club at the mouth of Milford Harbor on Tuesday. The boat is dredging the channel to the harbor.
Category Archives: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Moran: Fort Riley hospital now set to open in October
Management of the facility would change hands Friday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the entity in charge of overseeing construction, to Fort Riley's Department of Public Works, the department that will oversee facility operations.
High court sides with property owners in wetlands case
The Supreme Court is making it easier for landowners to bring a court challenge when federal regulators try to restrict property development due to concerns about water pollution. The justices ruled unanimously Tuesday that a Minnesota company could file a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the agency's determination that its land is off limits to peat mining under the Clean Water Act.
Another office calls for pipeline scrutiny
Native American tribes have not been sufficiently consulted on the $3.8 billion oil pipeline, according to Glenn Storey, chair of the Office of the State Archeologist Advisory Committee. "We respectfully would like to emphasize that none of the key federal agencies to date have been in direct consultation with the affected Native Nations/Tribes in Iowa," Storey wrote on behalf of the committee.