St. Louis District News

Many Celebrate Completion of Bois Brule Levee Project

Pentagon News — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:45:49 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, leadership held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the closeout of the Bois Brule Levee Deficiency Correction Project Dec. 6, that provides resilient infrastructure for flood risk reduction within the 26,000 acres of agricultural lands, commercial businesses and homes in the area protected by the levee. Ongoing efforts led by St. Louis District’s interdisciplinary project delivery team with support from the project sponsor, the Bois Brule Levee Drainage and Levee District, have corrected underseepage and inadequate levee grade issues along the Bois Brule levee in Perry County, Missouri, and Randolph County, Illinois, located on the right descending bank of the Upper Mississippi River between river miles 94 and 111.

Here for the journey – sharing confidence and a dash of humility through the #SoldierForLife campaign with St. Louis District’s Beverly Youngblood, Equal Employment Office specialist

Janet Meredith — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:45:54 GMT

Knowing that great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance, St. Louis District’s Beverly Youngblood, Equal Employment Office specialist has a strong sense of love for the U. S. Army, as evidenced from her thirty-four-year career serving as the Division Sexual Assault Response coordinator/Human Resource specialist in the 102d Training Division at Fort Leonard Wood. The St. Louis native credits writing an eleventh-grade term paper on career choices in helping her make the decision to join the Army. After attending Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Mo., where she earned her undergraduate degree in business administration and a master’s in business management, she became an enlisted recruit and joined the Army at the St. Louis Military Entrance Processing Station.

Mississippi River Project Balances Aquatic Ecosystems and Navigation

Janet Meredith — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:02:00 GMT

Is it possible to promote a healthier and more resilient Mississippi River ecosystem without impacting navigation? The Upper Mississippi River Restoration, or UMRR, Program was initiated to do just that. Authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, UMRR was the first environmental restoration and monitoring program undertaken on a large river system in the United States.

Incorporating environmental flows through the Sustainable Rivers Program to support lake sturgeon spawning continues to prove successful

Janet Meredith — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:28:00 GMT

The lake sturgeon, an ancient whisker-snouted fish from the Cretaceous period, is tied to present-day conservation efforts on the Mississippi River at the Melvin Price Locks and Dam in West Alton, Missouri. Despite their name, lake sturgeon, also known as “rubbernose or rock” sturgeon, are found in rivers and lakes. Evolving 150 million years ago, long before the evolution of the T-Rex and the other dinosaurs, they have scale-less skin and diamond-shaped plates along their back. Mature lake sturgeon live up to their unique legacy by reaching eight feet in length, weighing more than 200 pounds, and living over 100 years, making them extraordinarily impressive fish. These giants of the fish world are sustained from a diet of snails, crayfish, mussels, and aquatic insects found with barbel sensors and their suction-like toothless mouths.

2023 Annual Festival of Lights Auto Tour illuminates Redman Creek West Recreation Area at Wappapello Lake

Janet Meredith — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:37:00 GMT

This festive competition and public event, held annually since 1992 features holiday displays sponsored by local businesses along with appearances by Mr. and Mrs. Claus where visitors get to drive through a festively decked out auto tour in the Redman Creek West Campground located in Wappapello, Missouri. Supported by volunteers from the Wappapello Lake Area Association and River Radio, area businesses drape lights on campers, tractors, and trees and add in their favorite wooden cutouts and holiday mascots that all come together in hopes of winning this year’s contest and spreading Christmas cheer to all that come to visit. Categories included first, second, and third place of the best decorated campsites.

Iowa site works to award new remediation contract

Michael Kessler, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant FUSRAP project officer — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:40:44 GMT

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) continues its efforts to complete remediation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) near Middletown, Iowa. This site update includes cubic yards shipped to a license, out-of-state disposal facility as of June 30, 2023 as well as efforts to obtain a new remediation contract.

North County site: Team working in last phase of former Ballfields

Josephine "Jo Anne" Wade, North St. Louis County project manager — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 04:22:00 GMT

Remediation work continues in last phase at former Ballfields.

North County site: Team continues to investigate Coldwater Creek

Josephine "Jo Anne" Wade, North St. Louis County project manager — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 01:49:00 GMT

Sampling nears end of Coldwater Creek.

North County site: FUSRAP partners with MoDOT during I-270 North Project

Josephine "Jo Anne" Wade, North St. Louis County project manager — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:41:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) work together on the I-270 North Project in North St. Louis County. MoDOT work allows USACE’s environmental-remediation program, the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), to gain access to contaminated soils that had been inaccessible.

Downtown site sets sights on 2029

St. Louis Downtown Site project manager — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:46:00 GMT

Remedy Complete for the St. Louis Downtown Site (SLDS) is on the horizon.

Iowa site nears completion of active remediation

Mike Kessler, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant project manager — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:37:00 GMT

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is in the home stretch of active remediation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) site.

Record setting dredging season comes to an end

Janet Meredith — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:35:00 GMT

The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water that affected the Mississippi River basin. Dredging operations moved nine million cubic yards of material, at 70 different locations along 300 miles of the St. Louis District. In total, seven dredging units -- dustpan, cutterhead and mechanical -- were working throughout the St. Louis District area of responsibility. Two other units, for a total of nine, supported Mississippi Valley Division efforts on the Mississippi River.

St. Louis District’s Matthew Glover graduates from the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) University

Pentagon News — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:05:16 GMT

Following his six-month project with mentors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, geophysicist Matthew Glover with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Louis District presented his research results virtually at the ERDC University (ERDC-U) graduation ceremony Sept. 15, 2022.

USACE St. Louis District’s Glover continues ERDC University Project

Patrice Creel, ERDC Office of Research and Technology Transfer — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:39:00 GMT

Matthew Glover, a geophysicist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Louis District, has completed the half-way mark of his research project with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) six-month detail program, known as ERDC University (ERDC-U).

St. Louis District has recreation for everyone

Romanda Walker — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:05:00 GMT

St. Louis District recreation sites provide a diverse range of outdoor recreational activities that promote a healthy lifestyle to those who visit every year, with the commitment to providing visitors a safe, fun and secure experience. Each year, the St. Louis District hosts millions of visitors who come to enjoy the many recreational opportunities available at our rivers and lakes. Whether it is fishing, camping, boating, picnicking, swimming, sight-seeing, bird watching, hunting, or a variety of other recreation activities, we have something for you.

Courtney Wilson, Carlyle Lake & Kaskaskia Lake Project Manager

Jessica Schaeffer — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:19:00 GMT

Courtney Wilson, Operations Project Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Carlyle Lake Project and Kaskaskia River Project started off as a co-op ranger in college and has turned it into a successful career.

St. Louis District’s Matthew Glover selected for ERDC University

Patrice Creel, ERDC Office of Research and Technology Transfer — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:00:00 GMT

Researchers from five U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2022 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Geophysicist Matthew Glover of the St. Louis District was chosen as a participant for this detail program, now in its seventh year.

DOE Legacy Management makes site visit to IAAAP

Pentagon News — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:15:15 GMT

Director, staff from Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management (DOE-LM) visit Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) in Middletown, Iowa, Sept. 9, 2021.

USACE hosts DOE-LM at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant FUSRAP Site

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 04:00:00 GMT

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staffers escorted the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Sept. 9, 2021.

An end to an era: River gage reader changes Mississippi River gage

Janet Meredith — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:56:00 GMT

There is an end to an era of manual data collection. After nine decades of River Gage Readers, and Art Denkmann serving three of these decades, it now comes to an end. Just a few years shy of being a century old, the collection of data by gage reader observations on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo., comes to an end. This river gage has been in place since March of 1933. Throughout the years tourists, locals, and navigation interests have passed by this river front gage which now has been officially replaced with a Data Collection Platform system.