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  • USACE Galveston District awards $3.4 million contract to dredge Brownsville Harbor Entrance Channel

    GALVESTON, Texas (Oct. 1, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount $3,405,500 to Weeks Marine Inc. for maintenance dredging of the Brownsville Harbor Entrance Channel in Cameron County, Texas.

  • What is the Corps’ Beneficial Use Program?

    Annually, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District dredges approximately 30 to 40 million cubic yards of material as part of its mission of keeping America’s waterways navigable. The Corps is able to turn that into an added benefit by employing environmentally and economically responsible methods to uses dredged material to benefit local communities and improve eroded coastlines through marsh restoration, beach nourishment and other beneficial uses when possible.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $8.75 million contract to dredge Sabine-Neches Waterway

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 19, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract to Manson Construction Co., in the amount of $8,758,350, for maintenance dredging of the Sabine-Neches Waterway, Port Arthur Canal, turning basin, junction area and Taylors Bayou in Jefferson and Orange counties, Texas, and Cameron Parish, La.

  • Corps’ oldest employee to retire at 90 years of age

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012) – If 80 is the new 65 when it comes to current retirement plans, then most U.S Army Corps of Engineers employees would still have a decade to go before catching up with Civil Engineer Jack Otis, whose departure in September will officially make him the oldest employee to retire from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  • USACE Galveston suspends lock operations at Wallisville Saltwater Barrier due to continued drought conditions on Trinity River Watershed

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 11, 2012) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Wallisville Lake Project suspended lock operations today at the Saltwater Barrier Navigation Lock.

  • USACE Galveston District nears completion of levee safety inspections

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sep. 10, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District is nearing completion of a comprehensive evaluation of seven federally-constructed levees in Alice, Freeport, Lynchburg, Matagorda, Port Arthur, Texas City and Three Rivers, Texas, as part of the Corps’ Levee Safety Program.

  • USACE Galveston District assists in the Texas Gulf Coast restoration initiative

    GALVESTON, Texas (Sept. 5, 2012) – The Texas Gulf Coast is a national treasure from both an economic and environmental standpoint. Attracting millions of tourists to the coastline annually, the Texas Gulf Coast also serves as an important hub for fishing, provides habitat for millions of migratory birds and is home to four of the top 10 ports in the nation, which generates 21 percent (2010) of the nation’s waterborne commerce, creates millions of jobs and pumps billions of dollars each year into the nation’s economy.

  • USACE Galveston District staff to adjust operations at Brazos River Floodgates, Colorado River Locks due to tightened budgets

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 29, 2012) – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District staff prepare to adjust operations at the Brazos River Floodgates and Colorado River Locks following a reduction in the Corps’ nationwide inland navigation budget for fiscal year 2013.

  • USACE Galveston District awards $2.6 million contract to dredge Matagorda and Freeport Entrance Channel

    GALVESTON, Texas (Aug. 27, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract to Weeks Marine Inc., in the amount of $2,635,000 for maintenance dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel Entrance Channel and Freeport Harbor Entrance Channel.

  • Former USACE Engineer Convicted of Bribery

    HOUSTON - Christopher Castillo, 33, of Monte Alto, Texas, has entered a plea of guilty to one count of bribery, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Special Agent Frank Robey, director of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command's (USACID) Major Procurement Fraud Unit (MPFU). Castillo was a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Castillo was charged by criminal information on July 2, 2012, and entered his guilty plea just moments ago before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Froeschner.

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