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News Release Archive

7 Mar 2012
Corps public meetings to discuss proposed environmental mitigation plans
NEW ORLEANS, LA – The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, is hosting public meetings
5 Mar 2012
Corps prepares to open third southbound lane at the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, will open a third southbound
29 Feb 2012
Corps awards environmental mitigation contract
NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract to make improvements to a
23 Feb 2012
Corps deactivates Phase I flood fight
NEW ORLEANS – Water levels along the Mississippi River continue to drop, prompting the U.S. Army
10 Feb 2012
Corps activates inspections along Mississippi River
NEW ORLEANS –The Mississippi River at the Carrollton gauge in New Orleans has risen above 11 feet,
6 Feb 2012
Corps to hold public meeting to discuss re-burial of remains disinterred from Bonnet Carré Spillway’s historic cemeteries
NEW ORLEANS, LA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District will host a public meeting
2 Feb 2012
Corps announces westbound detour on Highway 90
NEW ORLEANS –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, will detour west bound travel
18 Jan 2012
Corps public meeting to discuss long-term management of Bonnet Carré Spillway’s historic cemeteries
NEW ORLEANS, LA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District will host a public meeting
13 Jan 2012
Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers begin to drop, Corps deactivates flood fight
NEW ORLEANS – Flood fight inspections along the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers have ceased as
9 Jan 2012
Mississippi Valley Division prepares for 2012 flood season, continues Operation Watershed recovery work
NEW ORLEANS – After the monumental flood of 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi