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  • USACE Galveston District awards $855,080 contract for placement area dewatering

    GALVESTON, Texas (May 4, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $855,080 to Environmental Industrial Services Group Inc., for the dewatering of Houston Ship Channel Peggy Lake Placement Area.

  • USACE Galveston District’s Employee Spotlight Timmy Walls

    GALVESTON, Texas (May 2, 2017) – With both parents working for the city of Chicago Illinois, Timmy Walls was raised looking up to two positive figures with strong work ethic and a “can-do” attitude. Modeling after his parents, Walls elected to pursue a career in which he could feel challenged and fulfilled. Now, a construction control representative for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, Walls embraces every opportunity to learn and strive for excellence in his everyday tasks.

  • USACE Galveston District awards small business contract for routine testing of dredged material

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 24, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a five-year Environmental Services Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to ANAMAR Environmental Consulting Inc., a woman-owned small business, in the amount of $7,000,000 for dredged material evaluation to include collection and analyses of water and sediment samples from the federally-maintained navigation channels and off-shore dredge material disposal sites.

  • Corps to accept duck blind applications May 1-June 30, 2017

    WALLISVILLE, Texas (April 21, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Wallisville Lake Project Office’s Waterfowl Management Program will accept seasonal duck blind applications May 1- June 30, 2017, for the upcoming 2017-18 waterfowl hunting season.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $1.2 million contract for placement area dewatering

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 18, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $1,289,600 to RLB Contracting Inc., for dewatering of Houston Ship Channel Lost Lake Placement Area.

  • Jefferson County Ecosystem Restoration Study Public Notice

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 18, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District (USACE), in partnership with Jefferson County and the Sabine Neches Navigation District, is preparing an Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Jefferson County Ecosystem Restoration Study in Jefferson County, Texas. The study will help contribute to larger ongoing efforts to improve, preserve and sustain ecological resources along the Texas coast by stakeholder groups, non-governmental organizations and government agencies at the local, state and federal levels.

  • USACE Galveston District to host Industry Day for small business contractors

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 5, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, will host an Industry Day for small business government contractors April 27, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the district’s headquarters building located at 2000 Fort Point Road, Galveston, Texas 77550.

  • USACE Galveston District’s Employee Spotlight on Celena Cui

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 3, 2017) – Celena Cui was a senior in high school when she enrolled in an advanced placement course to earn college credit. The environmental science course, held among a small group of students in the library, was the beginning of a life-long passion in environmental studies.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $8.9 million contract for Houston - Galveston channel dredging

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 23, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $8,921,000 to Manson Construction Co., for routine maintenance dredging of the Houston-Galveston Entrance Channel and Houston Ship Channel main channel. Contract options in the amount of $4,704,000 are anticipated to be awarded to perform additional maintenance dredging within the Houston-Galveston Entrance Channel and the Galveston Inner Harbor Channel.

  • Addicks Dam reaches construction milestone

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 7, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District staff announced today that the earthen cofferdam was completed – a major milestone for the Addicks Dam construction project.

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