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  • USACE Galveston District recognized for employing environmental principles in engineering projects

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 6, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District was selected as one of two "Proving Grounds" for the USACE Engineering with Nature Program (EWN) for its efforts to manage engineering projects in a sustainable manner, one which leaves behind the smallest footprint, while collaborating with partners to identify ways to reduce, mitigate or eliminate potential negative impacts.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $8.3 million small business contract for Houston Ship Channel dredging

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 1, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, awarded a small business contract in the amount of $8,343,200 to CJW Construction Inc., to conduct maintenance dredging at the Houston Ship Channel between Sims Bayou and the Turning Basin in Harris County, Texas.

  • USACE Galveston District Spotlight on Ron Wooten

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 1, 2015) – If you were to ask Fort Worth native Ron Wooten what his favorite job has been throughout his career, you’d be surprised to learn he’s sort of a jack-of-all-trades, having worked as an advanced placement high school teacher, research fisheries biologist, mentor, landscape and irrigation company owner and photojournalist.

  • USACE Galveston District joins Buffalo Bayou Partnership in supporting Texas’ largest canoe and kayak race

    GALVESTON, Texas (March 5, 2015) – During the year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District carefully watches and manages the water levels in the Buffalo Bayou system that run throughout Houston. Normally it is the weather that dictates how the Corps manages the watershed; but for one day each year, staff will base their decisions on one addition factor – the needs of the recreational paddlers participating in Texas’ largest canoeing and kayaking event.

  • USACE Galveston District Spotlight on Dawn Ramsey

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 27, 2015) – Fascinated by construction at an early age, Vicksburg, Mississippi, native Dawn Ramsey knew a career in math and science would be an obvious fit. Little did Ramsey know her love for numbers and hypotheses would lead her to a career serving the nation as part of the world’s largest public engineering, design and construction management agency.

  • Federal funding breathes life into Greens Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 24, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District and Harris County Flood Control District will start work on the Greens Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project in north Harris County this year due to $8 million in start-up funding allocated in the federal fiscal year 2015 budget for the Corps’ Civil Works program.

  • USACE Galveston District to host Stakeholder Partnering Forum

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 20, 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 environmental to flood risk management, dredging the Texas coast and regulatory oversight of U.S. waters during a Stakeholder Partnering Forum Feb. 25 at the district’s headquarters building in Galveston.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $4,106,760 contract for Alexander Island Placement Area Containment Dike Raise

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 19, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $4,106,760 to Southern Contracting LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, to perform containment dike raising on Alexander Island Placement Area, located along the Houston Ship Channel.

  • What is the USACE Galveston District's Continuing Authorities Program?

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 18, 2015) - The Continuing Authorities Program provides the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District with the authority to solve water resource, flood risk mitigation and environmental restoration problems in partnership with local sponsors without the need to obtain specific congressional authorization for each project. This decreases the amount of time required to budget, develop and approve a potential project for construction.

  • District awards geotechnical services contract as part of Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Study

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 13, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $208,866.76 to Quaternary Resources Investigations LLC, for core drilling, soil sampling and laboratory testing of soil conditions in Orange and Jefferson counties, Texas.

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