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Riverside Magazine

Welcome to New Orleans District's command information magazine the Riverside. This publication is a digital publication with articles added by the Public Affairs office. While the magazine is written for an internal audience, it contains useful information on a wide variety of topics and Corps activities.

A digital archive of the old print editions is available online.

 

 

Latest News

Public Scoping Meetings scheduled for Morganza to the Gulf

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced three public scoping meetings will be held on the Morganza to the Gulf (MTG) Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). The SEIS will evaluate design changes to the authorized MTG project to meet the one percent Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) Storm Surge Risk Reduction (100-year level of risk reduction).
Published: 7/25/2024

South Farm to host Wood Stork & Wading Bird Event Saturday, July 27, 2024

A Wood Stork & Wading Bird Event will be held on Saturday, July 27th at the South Farm of the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area Complex. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries would like to invite everyone to view this spectacle. Wood Storks and other wading and shore birds can be viewed in this area as they are drawn to feed in the South Farm’s water management units.
Published: 7/18/2024

Contract awarded for Morganza to the Gulf Reach A Construction

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract for constructing over 3 miles of earthen levee in Terrebonne Parish.
Published: 7/17/2024

USACE awards General De Gaulle Drainage and Improvement Phase 2 Construction Contract

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, awarded the General De Gaulle
Published: 7/9/2024

Calcasieu River Saltwater Barrier extends operating hours for July 4th holiday

The Calcasieu River Saltwater Barrier will have extended operating hours for the July 4, 2024 holiday, operating from 6:00 a.m. to midnight that day.
Published: 7/2/2024

Riverside Articles

  • Port Allen Lock reopens after USACE completes repairs

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, reopened the Port Allen Lock again for waterborne traffic after closing it for emergency repairs earlier this year. Ships, barges and other traffic began passing through the lock again the morning of April 27, 2024.

  • New Orleans Corps of Engineers christens new survey vessel named in honor of former employee.

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, has a new hydrographic survey boat among its fleet of vessels that sails the waters of South Louisiana. The Motor Vessel (M/V) Ducarpe was christened during a ceremony held at the Seabrook Harbor & Marine March 7, 2024.

  • New Orleans District deputy commander promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a new lieutenant colonel among its ranks. Former Maj. Nathaniel Weander, deputy commander of the USACE New Orleans District, pinned on the rank of lieutenant colonel during a promotion ceremony held Jan. 22, 2024, at the district headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • Corps of Engineers works with federal, state agencies to help create new marsh land in Louisiana

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New Orleans District has been pumping sediment out of the Calcasieu Ship Channel to help create new marsh lands as part of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority (CPRA) Long Point Bayou Marsh Creation Project near Hackberry, La.

  • Corps of Engineers holds Industry Day for Morganza to the Gulf project

    New Orleans District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) team members working on the Morganza to the Gulf project hosted their first Industry Day for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) East and West Floodgates at USACE New Orleans District headquarter Oct. 13, 2023.

  • West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Summer 2023 Construction Update

    Join the Army Corps of Engineers for a summer construction update on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain - New Orleans, USACE Storm Damage Risk Reduction System as of 2023. This critical flood risk management infrastructure will provide much needed risk reduction for 60,000 residents in St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes. The Project will construct a 100-year level risk reduction system extending from the Bonnet Carre spillway to Garyville. The structural component of the project is a 18.5 mile levee system that includes earthen levees, floodwalls and pumps

  • Corps of Engineers planning further steps to slow saltwater wedge progression up Mississippi River

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, held a press conference Sept. 15, 2023, at their headquarters in New Orleans, La., to discuss planned efforts to address continued low-water conditions on the Mississippi River.

  • Houma Navigation Canal Partnering Agreement Signing Ceremony

    Speakers included Brig. Gen. Kimberly Peeples, commanding general, Mississippi Valley Division (US Army Corps of Engineers), Col. Cullen Jones, commander, New Orleans District, along with other federal, state, and local partners.

  • New Orleans District Corps personnel honored for innovation at annual 2022 LEAP award ceremony

    At an award ceremony held Sept. 6, 2023, team members from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District (MVN), were recognized during the 2022 Lean Six Sigma Excellence Awards Program (LEAP) for their innovation in helping to improve the DPMAP process throughout the New Orleans District and Mississippi Valley Division of the Corps of Engineers.

  • New Orleans Corps of Engineers holds public meetings for St. Tammany Parish flood study

    Personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, held two public meetings Aug. 15 and 16, 2023, first in Slidell and then in Covington, Louisiana, to solicit feedback on the tentatively selected plan (TSP) for the St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Feasibility Study.

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