9 Jun 2025

Contract Award | Memphis District awards $8.4M contract for landing barge, a significant step towards completing stringout overhaul

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District awarded an $8.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to Conrad Shipyard LLC, of Morgan City, Louisiana, for the purchase of a steel-hulled deck barge, June 3, 2025.

5 May 2025

Project Tour | MVD Commanding General visits Grand Prairie Pumping Station Project

Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. Kimberly Peeples toured the Grand Prairie Pumping

8 Aug 2022

$1.8M contract awarded, add’ l protection for agriculture, communities

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District recently awarded a construction contract for a Seepage Remediation Project in Coahoma County, Sherard, Mississippi. The project will be accomplished in partnership with the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board of Mississippi and will address four miles of the Yazoo-Delta Levee system’s System 21 – Segment 26.

12 Jul 2022

Relief well installation project substantially complete

A Memphis District Project Delivery Team recently completed work to construct 25 new relief wells in Scott County, Missouri. To execute the project, a contract for $1,630,303.15 was awarded to VuCon, LLC., in August 2018. The contract was administered by the Memphis District’s Caruthersville Area Office, and the job was declared substantially complete June 24, 2022.

11 May 2021

Forked Deer Hard Points repair construction complete

"The Memphis District is responsible for maintaining a safe and dependable Mississippi River navigation channel to a minimum of 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide at all times and at all river stages," Project Manager Mark Mazzone said. That's why projects like this, the Mississippi River Channel Improvement Stone Repairs Task Order – Forked Deer Hard Points Repair, are so essential to execute as needed.