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  • Corps of Engineers to hold 1:30 media briefing at federal building

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 10, 2011 – The Army Corps of Engineers will hold a media brief to provide an operational update on floodfighting efforts in the Memphis District at 1:30 p.m. on the plaza just south of the Clifford Davis/Odell Horton Federal Building.

  • Corps’ emergency response system arrives in Memphis

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6, 2011 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, positioned an Emergency Command and Control Vehicle (ECCV) at the Cook Convention Center today to continue serving as a mobile Joint Information Center (JIC).

  • Corps of Engineers working to ensure safety of levees

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 5, 2011 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, continues to monitor flooding on the Lower Mississippi River and is coordinating their floodfighting operations with all stakeholders to ensure the integrity of the Mississippi River and Tributaries project.

  • Work continues to complete floodway operation

    SIKESTON, MO., May 4, 2011 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open the final crevasse in the levee Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway Project levee soon.

  • Corps of Engineers raises floodfight response to Phase II

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 25, 2011 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, initiated Phase II floodfighting activities at 7 a.m. on April 24 due to high Ohio and Mississippi river stages.