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  • USACE Galveston District’s projects receive WRRDA authorization

    GALVESTON, Texas (May 16, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District received authorization for construction for the deepening of the Freeport Ship Channel to 55 feet, deepening of the Sabine Neches Waterway to 48 feet and will reauthorize the Corpus Christi Ship Channel for widening and deepening to 52 feet following the U.S. Senate-House joint conference committee’s agreement on the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) yesterday.

  • USACE Galveston District welcomes new deputy commander

    GALVESTON, Texas (May 13, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District welcomed its new deputy commander Lt. Col. Jared B. Erickson, P.E., today. Outgoing deputy Lt. Col. Marty Maldonado was selected to assume a joint assignment with NATO in Germany.

  • USACE Galveston District Spotlight on Jody Rowe

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 25, 2014) – When Grandmother Florence Hunt, a 30-year-career budget analyst with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District, was preparing to relocate to Germany to oversee the budget for deploying troops in Desert Storm in 1991, Jody Rowe was wrapping up law school at the University of Iowa. What neither of them knew was that nearly two decades later they would share more than familial ties; Rowe’s law degree would enable her to continue the family tradition of supporting military service by opening the door for a career with the Corps.

  • District awards $8.2 million contract to dredge Houston Ship Channel

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 13, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount of $8,286,850 to RLB Contracting Inc., to perform maintenance dredging within the Houston Ship Channel, from Carpenters Bayou to Greens Bayou, as well as the deep-draft portion of Greens Bayou Channel.

  • USACE to complete $1.3 million Half Moon Reef project

    MATAGORDA, Texas (April 7, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District is scheduled to complete construction of the $1.3 million Half Moon Reef project April 11 to restore 12 acres of sub-tidal reef and habitat located within the northernmost extent of the Half Moon Reef in Matagorda Bay, Texas – one of the largest restoration projects around the country.

  • Corps awards $34 million contract to decommission, dismantle nuclear reactor; Galveston selected as decommissioning site

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 4, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District awarded a $34,663,325 contract to CB&I Federal Services LLC (CB&I) for the decommissioning, dismantling and disposal of the MH-1A nuclear reactor, which is installed on the STURGIS barge. The STURGIS will be relocated in September 2014 to Galveston, Texas, for decommissioning.

  • $2.4 million dredging contract awarded for Brownsville Ship Channel

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 1, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District began a $2,455,000 maintenance dredging contract today to relieve channel draft restrictions in the Brazos Island Harbor (Brownsville Ship Channel) navigation project.

  • USACE Galveston District recognized with 6 Army communication awards

    GALVESTON, Texas (April 1, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District Public Affairs Office was recognized with four awards from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Herbert A. Kassner Public Affairs Competition and two from the U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Competition.

  • USACE Galveston selects deputy district engineer for programs and project management

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 6, 2014) –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District announced the selection of Dr. Edmond Russo Jr., as its new deputy district engineer for programs and project management – the highest attainable civilian position in the district.

  • Spotlight on USACE Galveston District’s Dwayne Johnson

    GALVESTON, Texas (Feb. 1, 2014) – A career that allows Dwayne Johnson to get close to nature and keeps him on his toes was exactly what he got when he accepted a position as a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District 22 years ago.

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