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  • 17-061 Corps districts team up to provide sandbags and “super sacks” to Idaho Office of Emergency Management for flood response

    BOISE, Idaho – Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts teamed up to provide flood-fight resources to help the Idaho Office of Emergency Management (IOEM) respond to flooding in local areas. Walla Walla District Emergency management personnel are providing 100,000 “regular” sandbags to IOEM, and also coordinated with the Corps’ Seattle District to provide 1,000 larger “super sacks.” Both the sandbags and super sacks are being sent to IOEM at Gowan Field in Boise.While regular sandbags weigh about 30 pounds when filled with sand, and can be carried by one person, the larger super sacks being deployed hold 1.4-cubic yards of sand and must be moved by heavy equipment such as a front end loader after being filled. Each 1.4-cubic yard super sack is equal to more than 200 regular sandbags. When filled with sand, 1.4-cubic-yard super sacks weigh about 5,000 pounds.

  • 17-060 Corps sends technical assistance team to evaluate flood risk in Idaho’s Blaine County

    BLAINE COUNTY, Idaho – A three-person team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District Headquarters deployed today to provide technical assistance to Blaine County emergency managers as they respond to high flow conditions in the Snake River there, according to Corps emergency management officials at the District headquarters in Walla Walla, Washington.

  • 17-059 Fish loss at Little Goose Dam caused by significant river debris during this year’s unusually high flows

    DAYTON, Wash. – A juvenile bypass system orifice at Little Goose Lock and Dam became plugged early yesterday because of abnormally high seasonal debris from the lower Snake River, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials. The inadvertent orifice plugging caused an estimated 2,240 juvenile salmon and steelhead to perish. Millions of juvenile fish migrate downstream this time of year at Little Goose.

  • 17-058 Corps issues FONSI for Section 408 for ODOT bridge-replacement project

    MILTON-FREEWATER, Oregon – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) to grant Section 408 permission for the Birch Creek Road Bridge Replacement on the Walla Walla River in Umatilla County, Oregon, about three miles northeast of the City of Milton-Freewater, Oregon.

  • 17-057 Corps sends technical assistance team to evaluate flood risk in Idaho’s Jefferson, Madison counties

    JEFFERSON and MADISON COUNTIES, Idaho – An U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydraulic engineer and a civil engineer from the Walla Walla District Headquarters deployed today to provide technical assistance to Jefferson and Madison counties’ emergency managers as they respond to high flow conditions in the Snake River there, according to Corps emergency management officials at the District headquarters in Walla Walla, Washington.