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  • Corps of Engineers awards contract, dredging to begin at Sunset Marina

    ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, awarded a $101,607.25 contract to conduct Mississippi River maintenance dredging operations at Sunset Marina and Boat Harbor in Rock Island, Ill.

  • Army Corps of Engineers and Iowa DNR celebrate completion of Ventura Marsh

    Ventura, Iowa - (Oct. 26, 2011) The Rock Island District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources invite the public to help celebrate the completion of the Ventura Marsh Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project in Ventura with a ribbon cutting ceremony, November 1 at 1 p.m. The ceremony is being held at the Ventura Community Center at 4 North Weimer Street in Ventura.

  • Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works visits Dubuque to celebrate 25th Anniversary of the Environmental Management Program

    Rock Island, Ill. -- (Sept. 23, 2011) The media is invited to join the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, at Eagle Point Park in Dubuque, Iowa, Thursday, Sept. 29 at 9 a.m. to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Environmental Management Program (UMRR-EMP).

  • Army Corps hosts public meeting to discuss Keithsburg Reach Dredge Material Placement Site Expansion

    ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - (Oct. 13, 2011) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its partners at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Iowa Department of Natural Resources, invite the public to attend a meeting to discuss the Keithsburg Reach Upper Dredge Cut material placement Site 4, Pool 18, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Oakville Community Center, 105 East Ash, Oakville, Iowa.

  • 280-foot section of Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal wall collapses

    LOCKPORT, Ill. - On Friday, Oct. 7, approximately 280 linear feet of Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal concrete wall slid into the Canal. The wall is located just upstream of the Lockport Lock on the left descending bank. No breach of the Canal earth embankment behind the concrete wall occurred and no personnel were injured or equipment damaged.

  • Davenport Water Treatment Plant Construction Contract Awarded

    Rock Island, Ill. -- (Oct. 3, 2011) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, awarded a contract to construct the flood risk management project at the waste water treatment plant on the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa.