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  • October

    A graphic showing the location of the new Lock and Dam 25 1200-foot Lock.

    Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) – Lock and Dam 25 New 1200-ft Lock

    The Lock 25 – New 1200-foot Lock is the first of seven new 1200-foot Lock Projects being implemented under the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP).

  • August

    A map showing the project area for the Lower Pool 11 Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program – Lower Pool 11 HREP

    LocationPool 11, Upper Mississippi River Miles 590 – 598, Grant County, WisconsinDescriptionThe Lower Pool 11 riverine, backwater, floodplain Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project, part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program, located in southern portions of the left descending bank of Pool 11 of the Upper Mississippi River. The
  • Mississippi River - Lower Pool 13

    UMRR Program – Lower Pool 13 – Phase II HREP

    The Lower Pool 13 Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Project – Phase II, part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program, is located approximately three miles upstream of the city of Clinton, Iowa. The project features would be located entirely on federally owned land that forms part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The area consists of backwater lakes, sloughs, flowing channels, and impounded water residing over historically flooded islands and remnant islands. The lower section of Pool 13 is located in a valley that is 1.5 to 4.5 miles wide and contains few land masses.
  • Barges on the Mississippi River

    Upper Mississippi River - Illinois Waterway System Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP)

    NESP is a long-term program of ecosystem restoration and navigation improvements for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). NESP will improve system capacity and reduce commercial traffic delays through construction of 7 new 1,200-foot locks, mooring cells and switchboat implementation.
  • A map showing the project area for the Pool 18 Forestry Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project.

    UMRR Program - Pool 18 Forestry HREP

    The Pool 18 Forestry Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project, part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program, is located in portions of Louisa and Des Moines Counties in Iowa. The project area covers approximately 15 miles of Pool 18 in the Upper Mississippi River, near the towns of New Boston, Keithsburg, and Oquawka, IL, from the Iowa River delta, river mile 434.8 to Johnson Island, river mile 420.2.
  • Beaver Island Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program – Beaver Island HREP - Pool 14

    Beaver Island is located along the right descending bank of the UMRS in the southern portion of Clinton County, Iowa. Lock and Dam 13 is located 5 miles upstream of the island system. The Project lands, part of the UMR National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, are federally-owned. The goals are to restore and protect aquatic, wetland, and floodplain forest habitats.
  • Green Island Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program – Green Island HREP – Pool 13

    The existing forest is degrading at an alarming rate with numerous stressed and dying trees. The ox-bow lakes have lost much of their depth due to sedimentation and provide little fish refuge in the summer and winter. The pump system is old, inefficient and expensive to operate. The old drainage ditches are sediment filled to the point that a drawdown cannot be completed to regenerate high quality moist soil or emergent and aquatic vegetation. Elevated water tables on the Mississippi River proper are also adversely affecting floodplain forest composition and regeneration.
  • Huron Island Complex Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program – Huron Island Complex HREP - Pool 18

    The Huron Island Complex is located along the left descending bank of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), approximately 20 miles upstream of Burlington in Des Moines County, Iowa. The Project lands, part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, are federally-owned. The goals are to manage for a diverse and dynamic pattern of habitats to support native biota; manage for viable populations of native species within diverse plant and animal communities; and mange for processes that shape a physically diverse and dynamic river floodplain system.
  • Logo representing the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program.

    UMRR Program - IL, IA, MO, MN, WI - Upper Mississippi River Restoration

    The UMRR Program was authorized by the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986 and continuously authorized by WRDA 1999. The program consists of two primary elements: habitat rehabilitation projects and systemic monitoring and research.
  • Keithsburg Division HREP - Pool 18, Upper Mississippi River Miles 431- 428, Mercer County, Illinois.

    UMRR Program - Keithsburg Division HREP - Pool 18

    The Keithsburg Division is located in Pool 18 along the left descending bank of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), immediately north of the City of Keithsburg in Mercer County, Illinois. The Project lands, part of the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), are federally owned. The goals are to restore and protect off-channel aquatic, wetland, and floodplain forest habitats.
  • Mississippi River - Lower Pool 13

    UMRR Program - Lower Pool 13 HREP

    The Lower Pool 13 Habitat Restoration and Enhancement (HREP) project is located approximately three miles upstream of Clinton, Iowa, and consists of backwater lakes, sloughs, flowing channels, and impounded water residing over historically flooded islands and remnant islands.
  • Pool 12 Forestry Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program – Pool 12 Forestry – Pool 12

    The Pool 12 Forestry Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project (HREP) is located in portions of Jo Daviess County in Illinois, Dubuque and Jackson Counties in Iowa, and Grant County, WI. The project area covers approximately 26 miles of Pool 12 in the Upper Mississippi River, from Lock and Dam 12 (river mile 557.0) near Bellevue, Iowa, to Lock and Dam 11 (river mile 583.0) in Dubuque, Iowa. The Project is a 4,000-acre wetland complex that includes shallow lakes, emergent vegetation and managed moist soil areas, and braided channels surrounded by degrading riparian timber.
  • Pool 12 Overwintering Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project

    UMRR Program - Pool 12 Overwintering HREP

    The Pool 12 Overwintering project area is in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, upstream of Bellevue, Iowa. The project area is comprised primarily of a series of islands, backwater channels, and backwater lakes that are part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The goals of the project are to restore and protect off-channel aquatic habitat and restore floodplain forest habitat.
  • Quincy Bay, Illinois, Map

    UMRR Program – Quincy Bay HREP – Pool 21

    Quincy Bay is a backwater lake complex measuring approximately 4 miles long with a variable width of up to 2 miles. The area is composed of interconnected channels and small bays, an existing small boat harbor, and a small boat access channel.
  • Rice Lake Complex

    UMRR Program - Rice Lake Complex HREP - LaGrange Pool

    Rice Lake is a 6,800-acre backwater complex located 24 miles southwest of Peoria, Illinois. The project lands are state owned and are managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (ILDNR) as a fish and wildlife area. The project goals are to enhance and restore wetland and aquatic habitat.
  • Steamboat Island HREP - Pool 14, Upper Mississippi River Miles 502.5 to 506.5, Scott County, Iowa.

    UMRR Program - Steamboat Island HREP - Pool 14

    The Steamboat Island Project is located in the middle section of Pool 14 along the right descending bank of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), between the town of Princeton and the Wapsipinicon River. The goals are to maintain, enhance, and restore quality habitat for all native and desirable plant, animal, and fish species and maintain, enhance, restore, and emulate natural river processes, structures, and functions for a sustainable ecosystem.
  • 2019 Record Flooding - Davenport, Iowa

    Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River Flow Frequency Study

    The current Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River flow frequency study, completed in 2004, was created using a period of record ending in 1998. Since then frequent and record setting major floods have occurred. The flood of 2019 was not only historic with regards to flood heights, but also in its duration. The Mississippi River was above flood stage at Cape Girardeau for 145 days. In addition, many communities between Dubuque, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri have experienced the majority of their top 10 flood crests in the past 20 years. Significant flooding on the UMR occurred in 2001, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2019. The Illinois River has experienced the same unprecedented flooding. At Peoria, IL (on the IWW), 5 of the 10 highest flood crests have occurred since 1998; including the record crest in 2013.
  • Upper Mississippi River Hydraulic Model Graphic

    Upper Mississippi River System Hydraulic Model Update

    The development of a standardized and seamless flood risk management hydraulic model for the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) is an essential tool to understanding the risks that currently exist to the river communities and is a critical first step for the development of systemic flood risk management (FRM) strategy.
  • Upper Mississippi River Basin Map

    Upper Mississippi River Watershed Project

    Currently, there is no systemic flood risk management plan for the Upper Mississippi River. This uncoordinated flood response ultimately transfers risk to several areas, often without their knowledge. This watershed assessment will collaboratively develop an FRM strategy for UMR basin with an interagency team (Federal & 5 states).
  • Lock and Dam 22 Fish Passage Graphic

    Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) – Fish Passage - Lock and Dam 22

    Location:Upper Mississippi River, River Mile (RM) 301.2 near Saverton, Missouri, between Ralls County, Missouri, and Pike County, IllinoisDescription:The Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) area comprises the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), as defined by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986),
  • LaGrange New 1200 Foot Lock Project

    Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) – LaGrange Lock and Dam 1200-ft Lock

    The LaGrange New 1200-foot Lock is the second priority of seven new 1200-foot Lock Projects being implemented under the NESP program.
  • Army Reserve Center OMS Building - Urbana, Illinois

    Support to the U.S. Army Reserve 88th Readiness Division

    The 88th Regional Support Command (RSC) headquarters is located at Fort McCoy, WI. Their area of responsibility is nineteen states across the upper Northwest.
  • Andalusia Small Boat Harbor

    Small Boat Harbors

    All small boat harbor projects have a local sponsor, usually a municipality.
  • Permitted Dock within Limited Development Area in Pool 13, Thomson, Illinois

    Shoreline Management on Mississippi River

    In 1989, the Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) was developed and implemented as guidance for the management, protection and preservation of the Mississippi River's environment, while allowing a balanced use of the shoreline.
  • USACE logo

    Section 1135 Projects (Project Modifications for Improvements to the Environment) - Overview

    Section 1135 of the 1986 Water Resources Development Act, as amended, provides authority for the Corps of Engineers to determine the need for project modifications in the structures and operations of existing Corps of Engineers projects for the purpose of improving the environment in the public interest.
  • Green Bay No. 2 Drainage and Levee District Seepage Berm

    Section 408 Program

    The Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and codified in 33 USC 408 (commonly referred to as “Section 408”) authorizes the Secretary of the Army, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers of the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), to grant permission for the alteration or occupation or use of a civil works project provided the Secretary determines that the activity will not be injurious to the public interest and will not impair the usefulness of the project.
  • USACE logo

    Section 206 Overview

    Section 206 of the 1996 Water Resources Development Act, as amended, provides authority for the Secretary to carry out an aquatic ecosystem restoration and protection project.
  • USACE logo

    Section 205 Overview

    Section 205, small flood risk management program provides support for local flood risk management by the construction or improvement of structural or non-structural flood risk management measures.
  • USACE logo

    Section 204 Overview

    Section 204 of the 1992 Water Resources Development Act, as amended, provides authority for the Corps of Engineers to restore, protect, and create aquatic and wetland habitats in connection with construction or maintenance dredging of an authorized navigation project.
  • USACE logo

    Section 14 Overview

    LocationUnited StatesDescriptionSection 14, Emergency Streambank and Shoreline Protection program provides support for communities by constructing bank protection works to protect endangered highways, highway bridge approaches, and other essential, important public works, such as municipal water supply systems and sewage disposal plants, churches,
  • Saylorville Lake and Dam

    Saylorville Lake, Water Supply

    Water supply storage contract with the State of Iowa.
  • A view of Saylorville Lake

    Saylorville Lake, Iowa

    Saylorville Lake Project including the Big Creek Remedial Works is a multi-purpose project providing primary benefits in flood control and secondary benefits in low-flow augmentation, recreation, environmental stewardship, and water supply.
  • Levee Repairs

    Repairs to Levee Systems/Flood Control Projects - Policy

    Corps of Engineers policy regarding repairs to levee systems and flood control projects damaged by floods.
  • Upper Mississippi River Basin Map

    Regional Flood Risk Management

    In recent years, the Upper Mississippi River watershed has experienced more frequent flooding with higher stages, particularly in the last ten years with major floods occurring in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014.
  • Red Rock Remedial Works Southeast Des Moines, Southwest Pleasant Hill Levee, Des Moines River

    Red Rock Remedial Works Southeast Des Moines Southwest Pleasant Hill Levee, Des Moines River

    Project in Operation. Red Rock Remedial Works protects Southeast Des Moines/Southwest Pleasant Hill (SEDM/SWPH) from the back up effect of the Red Rock reservoir during large magnitude floods.
  • Big Creek Fish Escapement Study

    Planning Assistance to States and Tribes

    The Planning Assistance to States and Tribes (PAS&T) Program provides States, counties, local communities and Indian tribes with planning level assistance in addressing a water resources issues and planning needs.
  • Northern Missouri Environmental Infrastructure

    Northern Missouri Environmental Infrastructure Hannibal, MO – Sec 8353 WRDA 2022

    LocationHannibal, MissouriDescriptionSection 8353 Northern Missouri of WRDA 2022 (Public Law 117-263), established a program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in four (4) counties in northern Missouri: Buchanan, Marion, Platte, and Clay. The purpose of this program is to provide design and construction assistance for
  • National Levee Database Website

    National Levee Database

    The National Levee Database (NLD), developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), is the focal point for comprehensive information about our nation's levees.
  • Under the authority of Public Law 84-99, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can provide technical assistance and flood-fighting supplies, like these flood pumps, to local organizations, cities, counties and states actively engaged in flood fighting.

    National Flood Fight Materiel Center - Overview

    Under authority of Public Law 84-99, during flood emergencies the Corps of Engineers may provide tribal, state and local communities with flood fight supplies and equipment.
  • Dredge Goetz

    Mississippi River Maintenance Dredging (Operations & Maintenance)

    In order to maintain the 9-foot navigation channel, maintenance dredging is performed at various locations in the reach of the Upper Mississippi River in the Rock Island District.
  • Tow entering Lock 14 in front of the Mississippi River Project Office in Pleasant Valley, Iowa.

    Mississippi River between Missouri River & Minneapolis

    The project consists of a 314-river-mile reach of 9-foot commercial navigation channel from Guttenberg, Iowa, downstream to Saverton, Missouri.
  • A map showing the location of the Lee County Conservation Board's CAP Section 204 project.

    Lee County Conservation Board - CAP Sec 204

    Lee County Conservation Board owns and manages over 2500 acres of land forming a submerged island complex within Pool 19 of the Upper Mississippi River. Construction of a project that reduces wind fetch and turbidity in this area could result in habitat benefits to nearly 300 acres. Much of the benefit would result from improved aquatic vegetation and protection from wind driven waves. The team expects an improvement in habitat quality when construction is complete.
  • An array of underwater speakers being installed as an acoustic deterrent at Lock 19.

    Lock 19 Acoustic Study

    Invasive fish species, such as Bighead and Silver Carp, jeopardize aquatic ecosystems and affect the recreational uses of our nations’ waterways. The Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ICRCC) is the Federal and State workgroup with the mission to prevent invasive fish from reaching the Great Lakes. Though not directly connected to the Great Lakes, the ICRCC identified Lock and Dam 19 on Mississippi River as an ideal test site for the Underwater Acoustic Deterrent System (uADS) because of its similarity to Brandon Road Lock and Dam. Both dams have a water surface elevation change greater than 35 feet, active commercial navigation, and a style of dam that forces all fish to pass through the lock to get upstream.
  • Dredge material placement in Pool 16 on the Mississippi River.

    Illinois Waterway Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP)

    The Illinois Waterway Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP), part of the Dredged Material Management Program, is a study to evaluate and identify dredged material placement sites to accommodate the Corps’ dredging needs. The study area includes the Illinois Waterway (Rock Island District’s Portion), which extends 211 river-miles from Lockport, IL, downstream to LaGrange, IL. The Rock Island District’s portion covers 6 lock and dam sites and annually dredges many locations.
  • Levee System Map

    Levee Safety Program

    In the Rock Island District, approximately forty thousand people live or work behind levees in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Levee Safety Program.
  • Lake Red Rock Dam

    Lake Red Rock, Iowa

    Lake Red Rock is a multiple purpose project providing primary benefits in flood control and secondary benefits in low-flow augmentation, recreation and environmental stewardship.
  • INDC Logo

    Inland Navigation Design Center (INDC)

    The Inland Navigation Design Center Mandatory Center of Expertise (INDC-MCX) is an organization that provides engineering, design, analysis and review services for studies, new locks, new navigation dams, major rehabilitation of existing inland navigation locks and dams, and significant inland navigation lock and dam Operations & Maintenance (O&M) projects.
  • Commercial Tow locking upstream at LaGrange Lock and Dam on the Illinois Waterway.

    Illinois Waterway

    The project includes a total of 268 river miles of 9-foot commercial navigation channel from Chicago to LaGrange Lock and Dam, near Beardstown, Illinois; with 8 locks and 7 dams.
  • Dredge Pipeline

    Illinois Waterway Maintenance Dredging Operations & Maintenance

    In order to maintain the 9-foot navigation channel, maintenance dredging is performed at various locations in the reach of the Illinois Waterway in the Rock Island District.
  • Illinois River Basin

    Illinois River Basin Restoration (sec 519,WRDA 2000)

    Section 519 of WRDA 2000 authorized: (1) Comprehensive Plan to develop and implement a restoration program, long-term resource monitoring program, and evaluate new technologies and innovative approaches, and (2) construction of critical restoration projects.
  • USACE logo

    Floodplain Management Services (FPMS)

    The Floodplain Management Services (FPMS) Program provides a full range of technical services and planning guidance in support of effective floodplain management and flood risk reduction.
  • Farm Creek Reservoir

    Farm Creek, Illinois

    The project includes two dry reservoirs (Fondulac and Farmdale) located on tributary streams to the Illinois Waterway upstream of Peoria, Illinois, providing flood control for East Peoria, Illinois.
  • Dredged Material Placement Below Lock & Dam 15

    Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) - Overview

    The Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) evaluates and identifies preferred alternative dredged material placement site(s) using a six-step planning process and, where applicable, a matrix with six evaluation criteria: dredging cost; natural resources; beneficial use of dredged material; recreational resources; cultural resources; and social impacts.
  • Fort Dodge Greenbelt Trail

    Des Moines Recreational River and Greenbelt, Iowa (Recreation)

    The Des Moines Recreational River & Greenbelt is a partnership of local and federal governments and private interests dedicated to developing ecosystem improvements and recreational opportunities in the Des Moines River corridor.
  • Map of downtown Des Moines, Iowa, levees

    Des Moines 408 Review

    This project is a proposal to raise portions of Des Moines I, II, and III levee systems and to raise and relocate portions of the Southeast Des Moines levee system.
  • Coralville Dam outlet structure in Coralville, Iowa.

    Dam Safety Program

    The purposes of a dam safety program are to protect life, property and the environment by ensuring that all dams are designed, constructed, operated and maintained safely and effectively.
  • Coralville Dam and Lake located in Coralville, Iowa.

    Coralville Lake, Iowa

    Coralville Lake is a multiple purpose project providing primary benefits in flood control and low-flow augmentation with secondary benefits in recreation, fish and wildlife management, forest management, and water quality improvement.
  • A map of the Dubuque, Iowa, Forced Sewer Study area.

    City of Dubuque Forced Sewer Main, Dubuque County, IA– CAP Section 14

    The city of Dubuque, Iowa, has two sanitary sewer mains, one thirty-inch and one forty-inch diameter, sanitary force mains and the Terminal Street lift station located adjacent to the Mississippi River in Dubuque County, Iowa. Loss of riprap protection along the length of the force main is threatening the safety and integrity of the forced main. Opportunities exist to reduce erosion and safety concerns through structural and non-structural measures.
  • Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 13, 2008 during flood crest.

    Cedar River, Cedar Rapids, Iowa -- Flood Risk Management

    The project was authorized for construction in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) of 2014. It provides protection along the east bank of the Cedar River. It includes earthen levees, floodwalls, and closure structures for a total length of 3.15 miles.
  • The current Brandon Road Interbasin Project site layout as of October 2023.

    Brandon Road Interbasin Project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has evaluated potential control options and technologies at Brandon Road Lock and Dam to prevent the upstream Interbasin transfer of Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) while minimizing impacts to Illinois Waterway uses and users. This effort has identified a recommended plan. Implementation of the recommended plan requires congressional authorization.
  • An aerial view of Locks and Dam 14 on the Mississippi River near LeClaire, Iowa.

    Backlog of Maintenance

    The Major Rehabilitation and Major Maintenance Program for the Locks and Dams on the Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway has been ongoing since 1975. Major rehabilitation consists of reliability or efficiency improvements.
  • An aerial of the Blackhawk Bottoms area located in south eastern Iowa, Des Moines County, near the confluence of the Skunk and Mississippi Rivers.

    Blackhawk Bottoms, Pool 19, Iowa – CAP Section 206

    This project provides the opportunity to restore the historic fall flood pulse within Pool 19 of the Mississippi River at Blackhawk Bottoms.