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  • Memphis District to publish new construction update report for confluence projects

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 6, 2012 – Beginning April 6, the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin publishing a “Mississippi-Ohio River Confluence Update” to provide timely updates on the progress of construction on projects in the confluence area. This new update will expand the scope of the “Operation Make Safe Project Update” and replace it.

  • Corps to sign Mississippi River assessment agreement with The Nature Conservancy

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 10, 2012 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will add the final signature to a Cost Share Agreement for the Congressionally authorized Lower Mississippi River Resource Assessment (LMRRA) at 2 p.m. on Jan. 11 in room 560 of the Clifford Davis-Odell Horton Federal Building, 167 N. Main St., in Memphis.

  • Corps hosts Levee summit at Cairo to discuss regional flood repairs

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., DEC. 15, 2011 – City, county and Illinois state officials joined representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday (Dec. 14) for a Levee Summit in Cairo, Ill. The meeting was part of the Corps’ comprehensive effort to make repairs to the regional flood risk management system following the tremendous floods this spring.

  • Corps installs temporary flood protection measures at BPNM

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., DEC. 6, 2011 – Based on National Weather Service forecasts of unseasonably high river levels and more to come, Maj. Gen. John Peabody, Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division, has directed an orderly shutdown of the Birds Point-New Madrid project area.

  • Possibility of renewed flooding in Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway area

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., DEC. 5, 2011 – Based on National Weather Service forecasts of unseasonably high river levels, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers advises citizens with interests in the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway that a significant risk of renewed flooding in that area exists for the near future.