Published: December 21, 2011
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Debbie Stabenow, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, Jeff Skelding, Sander Levin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Congress has approved $300 million to keep a multi-year program going that is aimed at fixing some of the Great Lakes’ biggest environmental problems, from invasive species to river bottoms laced with toxic chemicals.
Published: October 8, 2010
Tags: HUBZone, letter, Small Business Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Editor’s Note: Read the story The Daily Reporter first reported on HERE To the editor: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining the nation’s water and related environmental resources. They are not a social services agency and have no business acting as one. They are to be civil engineers [...]
Published: July 1, 2010
Tags: Birdland neighborhood, dam, Des Moines Public Works, Des Moines River, Eagle Iron Works, flood risk, Saylorville Lake, spillway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Melanie S. Welte AP Writer Des Moines, IA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slowly released water from a bloated reservoir into a river that winds toward Des Moines and a vulnerable levee protecting a downtown neighborhood Thursday. Tom Heinold, an Army Corps flood risk management coordinator, said the engineers began lowering panels from [...]
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: Alabama, Atlanta, Colorado School of Mines, federal reservoirs, Florida, Georgia, Hanna, Lake Lanier, Lake Winnebago, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water use
By Ben Evans AP Writer Washington — Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. Thanks, but no thanks. Those words came back to haunt Atlanta last year. A federal [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Duchniak, grant, Herb Kohl, Lake Michigan, Larry Nelson, Michael Sullivan, Milwaukee County, Oak Creek, pipe, Sensenbrenner, Takerian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water, Waukesha, Waukesha County, Waukesha Water Utility
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By Sean Ryan The Waukesha Water Utility has to spend millions drawing fresh water from a new source. Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money for pipe construction. The utility is writing an application for a $100 million U.S. Army [...]
Published: January 26, 2010
Tags: archaeology, Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting, dams, locks, reservoirs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Veterans Administration, Veterans Curation Project, work sites
By Cheryl Wittenauer AP Writer St. Louis — U.S. military veterans are sorting through a massive government archaeological collection that has been neglected for decades, with the hope of archiving the stone tools, arrows and American Indian beads that were found beneath major public works projects. The collection dates to the 1930s, when the U.S. [...]
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, Chicago, Chicago River, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Lake Michigan, locks, Minnesota, National Resources Defense Council, New York, Ohio, Ontario, preliminary injunction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin
By John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, Mich. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order immediate closure of shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. The court rejected a request by Michigan for a preliminary injunction to close the locks temporarily while a long-term solution [...]
Published: November 5, 2009
Tags: Benchmark Construction Corp., Courthouse, Escambia County, Fla., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By Nash Nunnery Dolan Media Newswires Jackson, Miss. — David Marsh isn’t a preacher but a growing number of churchgoers have faith in him and his construction company. In addition to projects such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office complex in Vicksburg, the Escambia County, Fla., Courthouse and numerous hospitals and detention facilities, [...]
Published: September 18, 2009
Tags: Gov. Jim Doyle, Highway 51, Lock and Dam 3, Minn., Minocqua, Mississippi River, Oneida County, Pitlik & Wick Inc., Red Wing, Rhinelander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Woodruff
Improvement work begins Tuesday on Highway 51 in Oneida County The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced that Gov. Jim Doyle signed a $469,000 contract to improve 1.7 miles of Highway 51 in Oneida County. The work will take place between Front Street and 3rd Avenue in Minocqua and Woodruff. Construction will begin Tuesday. Rhinelander-based Pitlik [...]
Published: August 17, 2009
Tags: ecosystem, Lake Superior, Michigan Technological University, pollution, restoration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Upper Peninsula
David N. Goodman AP Writer Detroit — Researchers from Michigan’s far north and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in steamy Vicksburg, Miss., have formed an alliance to improve tools for monitoring pollution along the nation’s shorelines. Michigan Technological University is on the Keweenaw Peninsula that juts into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula. [...]