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  • 19-093 Needle gate replacement work to affect Mill Creek road access Aug 26 through September

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Work to replace the needle gate at the headworks of Yellowhawk Creek at the Division Works Dam will require temporary closure of the road access from Aug. 26 to the end of September according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operations officials.
  • 18-091 Corps to repair Little Goose Landing parking lot and access road; public access temporarily closed Aug. 20-26

    STARBUCK, Wash. – Little Goose Landing, located about 2 miles east of Little Goose Lock and Dam on the south shoreline of the lower Snake River near Starbuck, Washington, will be temporarily closed Monday, Aug. 20 until about noon on Sunday, Aug. 26, to accommodate asphalt maintenance work, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials announced today.
  • 18-039 Rangers remind visitors of water system work to occur at Fishhook

    BURBANK, Wash. – Fishhook Park, located off of State Route 124 along the lower Snake River in Walla Walla County, will be without potable water this summer while the water system is upgraded; however, it will remain open to visitors during its normal summer recreation season -- May 18 through Sept. 4, 2018.
  • 18-002 Little Goose navigation lock to temporarily close Jan. 17

    STARBUCK, Wash. – Little Goose Dam’s navigation lock will be closed to all vessel traffic from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17. The temporary closure is necessary to provide safer conditions for divers working on the dam’s trash shear boom near the vicinity of the lock, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials at the dam.
  • 16-017 Corps awards turbine repair contract; turbine removed after 20 years

    LOWER SNAKE RIVER, Wash. – The march toward modernizing the Corps hydropower facilities continued on Apr. 7, 2016, when workers at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam lifted the unit 1 turbine out of the turbine pit. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Corps is the Nation’s largest hydropower producer and the Walla Walla District is the Corps’ 2nd largest hydropower producer. The Walla Walla District awarded a $12.9 million contract to ANDRITZ HYDRO in July 2015, for generator winding replacement and turbine cavitation repairs to modernize the hydroelectric facilities at Lower Monumental Dam.
  • 16-016 Corps seeks public comments for Milton-Freewater Nursery Bridge Drop Structure repair draft FONSI and Environmental Assessment

    MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Walla Walla District (Corps), invites public comments on the draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Milton-Freewater Nursery Bridge Drop Structure repair project.