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  • USACE Galveston District awards small business environmental services contract

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 11, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $254,707.25 to SOL Engineering Service LLC, a small business, for environmental services to include the collection and analyses of water and sediment samples from the federally-maintained Freeport, entrance and jetty channels.

  • Spotlight on USACE Galveston District's Andrew Weber

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 1, 2015) – Often spending his summers in the Texas hill country, building makeshift dams and playing in creeks in his younger years, Andrew Weber’s fascination with moving water hasn’t changed. As a civil engineer, specializing in geotechnical engineering, his work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District allows him to continue studying water and the impact it has on soil properties to prevent against loss of life and property for thousands of Houstonians.

  • USACE Galveston District to host 92nd Coastal Engineering Research Board meeting

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 24, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, will host the 92nd Coastal Engineering Research Board (CERB) meeting Sept. 1-3, 2015, at the district’s headquarters building in Galveston, Texas.

  • USACE Galveston District to host second Stakeholder Partnering Forum

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 24, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District will meet with non-federal sponsors, customers and agency partners to collaborate on best practices regarding programs ranging from ecosystem restoration to flood risk management, maintaining and improving Texas coastal navigation systems, and regulatory oversight of U.S. waters during the district’s second Stakeholder Partnering Forum on Aug. 27, 2015, at its headquarters building in Galveston.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $4.1 million contract for placement area repair work

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 13, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $4,148,160 to Midwest Construction Company, for construction repairs of Shoal Point Placement Area 3, 4 and 5.

  • USACE Galveston District partners with Bay City High School to promote water safety

    BAY CITY, Texas (Aug. 5, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, together with Bay City High School Art Teacher Sharon Landgrebe and her students, coordinated a project to create signs to alert the public about the need to wear life jackets when they are in, on or around water.

  • Spotlight on USACE Galveston District’s Capt. Robert M. Burnham

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 3, 2015) – Each Soldier in the U.S. Army plays a role in maintaining the nation’s security. For Army Capt. Robert M. Burnham, the economic strength of the nation remains secure, as he fulfills his role as an operations manager in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Navigation Branch, managing dredging-related operations and maintenance projects along the Texas coast.

  • USACE Galveston District to perform emergency dredging of GIWW at Caney Creek, Brazos River Floodgates

    GALVESTON, Texas (July 17, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, will perform emergency maintenance dredging of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) at Caney Creek and the Brazos River Floodgates in Brazoria and Matagorda counties, Texas, beginning July 21, 2015.

  • Army Corps of Engineers now accepting water resources project proposals

    GALVESTON, Texas (July 16, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now accepting proposals from local and regional stakeholders for completed feasibility reports, proposed feasibility studies, and proposed modifications to authorized projects or studies to be conducted in partnership with the Corps.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $6.9 million contract to dredge Brownsville Ship Channel, Port Isabel Channel

    GALVESTON, Texas (July 2, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $6,956,000 to RLB Contracting Inc., for maintenance dredging of the Brownsville Ship Channel and Turning Basin and Port Isabel Channel and Turning Basin in Cameron County, Texas.

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