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About
Engineering & Construction Division
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Melvin
Price Locks and Dam, opened in 1994
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The St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers, is an engineering
and water resource agency dedicated to maintaining a proper
and healthy balance of the multi-uses of the heartland's waterways.
The Engineering and Construction Division consists
of seven Branches including Construction;
Design; Geotechnical and HTRW; Hydrologic and Hydraulic; Ordnance
and Technical Services; Geospatial Engineering; and Curation
and Archives Analysis.
[Organizational
Chart]
The Engineering and Construction Division of the St.
Louis District has much Experience and Expertise in
the following categories: Navigation including Locks,
Dams, and River Regulation; Hydropower including Power
Plant Design, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA),
and Re-regulation Dam Design; Environmental Restoration
including Habitat Restoration; Flood Control including
Levees, Floodwalls, Drainage Channels, Lakes, Reservoirs,
and Flood Plain Management; Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive
Waste including Underground Storage Tank Removal, Archaeological
Curation Facility Design, and Unexploded Ordnance at Formerly
Utilized Defense Sites; Data Collection including Water
Control, Photogrammetric Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, and
Automated Performance Monitoring of Dams (APMD); and Recreation
including Visitor Centers and Recreational Facilities Design
such as Boat Ramps, Campgrounds, and Wastewater Treatment
Systems. For a complete list of the Experience and Expertise
of the Engineering and Construction Division, please select
here: [Experience
and Expertise]
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Rend
Lake bike trail bridge
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Projects that have been designed and constructed by
the Engineering and Construction Division of the St.
Louis District include those in the following categories:
Navigational structures such as Lock and Dam No. 24,
Lock and Dam No. 25, Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Locks No.
27, Kaskaskia Lock and Dam, and River Regulating Structures
(dikes and bendway weirs); Flood Control structures
such as Carlyle Lake, Rend Lake, Lake Shelbyville, Wappapello
Lake, Cape Girardeau-Jackson Missouri Local Flood Protection,
Ste. Genevieve Missouri Local Flood Protection, St. Peters
Missouri Local Flood Protection, Valley Park Missouri Local
Flood Protection, and St. Louis Missouri Flood Protection;
Hydropower structure at Clarence Cannon Dam and Mark
Twain Lake; Environmental Restoration structures such
as Carlyle Lake Wildlife Management Area, Rend Lake Atchison
Creek Wildlife Area, Rend Lake Sub-impoundment Dams, Riverlands
Environmental Demonstration Area, Rend City Wetlands, Formerly
Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), and the Upper
Mississippi River Environmental Management Program (EMP);
and Recreational structures such as Carlyle Lake, Rend
Lake, Lake Shelbyville, Wappapello Lake, Mark Twain Lake,
and the National Great Rivers Museum.
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