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  • Erosion protection work begins on Red Duck Creek

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 14, 2008 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, began placing stone riprap protection along a 950-foot stretch of Red Duck Creek in Mayfield, Ky. on Jan. 9 to control erosion near 9th Street, a major community thoroughfare.

  • Corps Begins Germantown Erosion Control Study

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 14, 2008 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Germantown have initiated an emergency feasibility study to provide erosion protection for a culvert and sewer line along a Wolf River tributary.

  • Jim Lloyd is new Chief of Project Management Branch for Corps of Engineers

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 10, 2007 – Jim Lloyd has been selected as the Chief, Project Management Branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District.

  • Dredge keeps New Madrid Harbor open as vital link to world markets

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2007 – The river dredge Venture, contracted by the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, completed work Oct. 3 at the New Madrid Harbor in the Missouri Bootheel, ensuring the facility will remain open for regional agribusiness to ship commodities to world markets via the Mississippi River.

  • Corps will comply with legal decision on St. Johns Project

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2007 – The Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received the order issued Sept. 13, 2007, by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and immediately halted work on the St. Johns/New Madrid Project in order to comply with the Court’s instructions while the parties concerned review the Court’s accompanying opinion.