News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
USDA Announces $133 Million in Grant Funding Available, including American Rescue Plan funds, through the Local Agriculture Market Program to Expand Local Food Systems
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will host a public meeting on February 27, at The Hopkins County Regional Civic Center, 1200 Houston Street, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482 to provide information and receive public input on the Draft Jim Chapman (Cooper) Lake and White Oak Creek Mitigation Area Master Plan and Environmental Assessment.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is preparing for the upcoming spring snowmelt by lowering its Lac Qui Parle reservoir, near Watson, Minnesota.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The Honorable Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, Feb. 13-14.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is lifting the small craft advisory for the Arkansas River.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has updated its 1972 Master Plan for Buckhorn Lake located in Buckhorn, Kentucky.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
We will be recruiting a variety of positions using direct hire authority for multiple disciplines and grade levels, from GS-03 to GS-12. Depending on position/location selected, promotion potential will be the GS-05, 07, 09, 11, or 12 levels. We are also recruiting for many Federal Wage System positions in Memphis, TN and New Orleans, LA.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
For nearly a decade, the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, maintained acquisition and contract management of ACE-IT, the enterprise information technology services delivery team providing enterprise-wide information management and information technology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division hosted a day of partnership at its headquarters in Fort Hamilton, New York, with members of the U.S. Geological Survey Feb. 15.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District (Corps) is releasing for public comment a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) under the National Environmental Policy Act for a proposed breakwater repair and maintenance project at Algoma Harbor, located on the western shore of Lake Michigan in the City of Algoma, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
By State Newswire Report | Feb 24, 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the total U.S. humanitarian support for earthquake relief efforts in Türkiye and Syria reach $185 million so far just days before he visited Türkiye to view the devastation and relief efforts.
By DOL Newswire Report | Feb 24, 2023
Alaskan fishing-industry employees aboard a seafood processing vessel last summer were exposed to dangerous conditions on the vessel by a company with a decade-long history of safety violations.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District has a team dedicated to combating invasive species throughout the state. The passion behind their mission is so strong that it crosses generations.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) recently signed an educational partnership agreement with two Vicksburg, Mississippi schools— Vicksburg Catholic School (VCS) and Porter’s Chapel Academy (PCA).
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, J. Strom Thurmond Project has temporarily closed Parksville Day Use Area due to a public safety concern resulting from a large sink hole in the entrance road.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
For more than a decade, Dr. Nathan Harms, a research biologist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL), has been assisting the Australian government, and more recently South Africa, with the biological control of the invasive delta arrowhead.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
Officials with the Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that effective April 1, fees at Belton Lake will be increasing for camping sites and group day use pavilions at all parks.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is announcing that the Woodcock Lake Park Campground at Woodcock Creek Lake will be closed for the 2023 recreation season.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
Groundbreaking ceremonies have been used for centuries to celebrate the start of a new venture and give thanks to those who blazed a trail and made it possible.
By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2023
Tinkering with things on dairy farms as a child is where Derek Burleigh, acting chief of the construction branch for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, first grew his interest in engineering.
