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  • 18-050 Walla Walla District receives $3.3M supplemental funding for rehabilitation of flood-damaged levees

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Four levees damaged during the 2017 flood season, located within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District area of operations, received a total of approximately $3.3 million in cumulative funding for flood-related repairs under Public Law 115-123, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed into law February 9, 2018.
  • 18-049 Corps awards contract for emergency Heise-Roberts Levee repair

    LORENZO, Idaho – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract today to conduct temporary emergency levee repairs on an eroded section of the Heise-Roberts Levee System, located on the Snake River near Lorenzo, Idaho, about 3.7 miles downstream from the U.S. Route 20 bridge. The contractor’s crews and equipment are in the process of mobilizing to the site to begin work. Hydraulic and civil engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Walla Walla District deployed to Jefferson County on May 16, 2018, to provide emergency-management assistance to Jefferson County, Idaho, and help stabilize the levee.
  • 16-024 Goats return to manage levee vegetation along Mill Creek; temporary leash rules in effect to help protect goats, visitors

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. – A herd of goats arrives today, Friday, May 6, to remove weeds and other vegetation growing on levees that border the creek shoreline extending from the Mill Creek diversion dam downstream to the metal division works foot bridge near the Mill Creek Office.
  • 15-063 Corps of Engineers finalizes Mill Creek levee maintenance plan

    Corps of Engineers finalizes Mill Creek levee maintenance plan WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Following intensive U.S. Army Corps of Engineers review and consideration of public comments which led to a modification of its preferred alternative, the Corps’ Walla Walla District Commander Lt. Col. Timothy Vail signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) today for its plan to perform vegetation maintenance on the Corps-managed section of the federal levee system along Mill Creek in Walla Walla.
  • 15-045 Corps seeks public comments for Mill Creek levee maintenance draft FONSI and Environmental Assessment

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District (Corps) invites public comments on a draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Environmental Assessment (EA) and for maintenance to occur along the landward-side of the Corps-managed portion of the Mill Creek Levee System in Walla Walla. Comments are due no later than August 24.