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  • September

    Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration: Section 1135, Leech Lake Dam Fish Passage, Minnesota

    The purpose of the project is to provide hydraulic connectivity for aquatic organisms to pass from the Leech River upstream to Leech Lake.

  • Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration: Section 206, Kinnickinnic River Restoration, Wisconsin

    There are currently two dams on the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, Wisconsin: Powell Dam and Junction Dam. The Kinnickinnic River is a Class 1 trout stream, and the river section along River Falls is highly degraded because of impoundments. The removal of the Powell Falls Dam, and possibly Junc-tion Falls Dam, presents a unique opportunity to re-store the river to its natural setting.

  • Beneficial Use of Dredged Material: Section 1122, Upper Pool 4, Lake Pepin, Bay City, Wisconsin

    This project utilizes dredged material generated from the navigation channel to protect and restore backwater habitat; this is a win-win project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, our partner agencies, and the environment. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is the nonfederal sponsor of this project.

  • Beneficial Use of Dredged Material: Section 204, Pigs Eye Lake Islands, Minnesota

    The project will beneficially utilize dredge material to create islands that will provide a variety of habitats for fish and wildlife. Pigs Eye Lake is located in Ramsey County, Minnesota, just east of downtown St. Paul, in upper Pool 2 of the Mississippi River.

  • Dam Safety Program: North Dakota

    The overlying purpose of the Dam Safety Program is to ensure the integrity and viability of dams such that they do not present unacceptable risks to the public, property, and the environment. Within the St. Paul District, two dams in North Dakota are federally authorized, operated and maintained.

  • Dredged Material Management Plan: Pool 3 and Upper Pool 4—Minnesota and Wisconsin

    The Pool 3 and Upper Pool 4 Dredged Material Management Plan study area is located between Lock and Dam 3 near Red Wing, Minnesota, and the southern tip of Lake Pepin at Reads Landing, Minnesota, spanning roughly 51 river miles from 764 to 815.2. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates and maintains the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Navigation Project, and one method the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers uses to keep the channel the right size is dredging river soils or “material.”
  • Eau Galle Lake observation deck

    Eau Galle Lake, Wisconsin

    Authorized purposes of the Eau Galle Lake Project include flood control, recreation, and enhancement of fish and wildlife. Eau Galle Lake is located on the Eau Galle River in Wisconsin.

  • Environmental Infrastructure Assistance: Section 154, Northern Wisconsin

    The Section 154 program authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide assistance to northern Wisconsin public entities in the form of design, construction, and reconstruction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure, resource protection, and development projects. This work can target navigation and inland harbor improvements and expansions, wastewater treatment and related facilities, water supply and related facilities, environmental restoration, and surface water resource protection and development.

  • Environmental Infrastructure Assistance: Section 219

    The Section 219 program authorizes aid from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assist nonfederal interests in carrying out water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. Assistance may be in the form of technical, planning, design and/or construction assistance for wastewater treatment and related facilities and water supply, storage, treatment and distribution facilities

  • Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies: Grand Forks, North Dakota, Emergency Levee Repairs

    The purpose of this work is to repair the flood control measures that were damaged in the 2023 spring floods in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

  • Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies: Marshall, Minnesota, Emergency Levee Repairs

    The purpose of this work is to repair the flood control measures that were damaged in the 2023 and 2024 spring floods in Marshall, Minnesota.

  • Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies: Noyes, Minnesota, Emergency Levee Repairs

    The purpose of this work is to repair the flood control measures that were damaged in the 2022 spring floods in Noyes, Minnesota.

  • Flood Control Sites, Minnesota: Lake Traverse, Orwell Lake, Red Lake, Big Stone (Highway 75 Dam), Lac qui Parle

    Minnesota flood control sites include flood risk management, recreation and environmental stewardship business line functions. Each have public use facilities for shore fishing, picnicking, bird watching, and other activities. The land is actively managed for habitat enhancement.
  • Lake Ashtabula is located 12 miles northwest of Valley City, N.D., and is situated in one of the most scenic river valleys in the region, offering visitors a wide range of recreation opportunities. The lake offers activities for every season of the year. Fishing and snowmobiling are available in the winter. The spring and fall bring a beautiful view of the migrating waterfowl. There are plenty of activities available in the summer, such as fishing, boating, camping, swimming and picnicking.

    Flood Control Sites, North Dakota: Lake Ashtabula, Homme Lake, Souris River

    Homme Lake and Lake Ashtabula are multipurpose sites with flood risk management, recreation, and environmental stewardship business functions. The Souris River Project is used for flood control and mitigation activities and is operated in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

  • Flood Risk Management: North Dakota Silver Jackets Team

    Silver Jackets teams are collaborative, state-led, interagency teams that are continuously working together to reduce flood risk at the state level. Through the Silver Jackets program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and additional federal, state, and sometimes local and tribal agencies provide a unified approach to addressing a state’s flood risk priorities. Often, no single agency has the complete solution, but each may have one or more pieces to contribute. Silver Jackets team activities and projects occur throughout North Dakota.

  • Flood Risk Management: Section 205, Trempealeau River, Arcadia, Wisconsin

    The purpose of this project is to reduce the risk of damages due to flooding in the city of Arcadia, Wisconsin. Arcadia is located on the Trempealeau River, with Turton Creek and Meyers Valley Creek flowing into the Trempealeau River on the east and west sides of the city, respectively.

  • Flood Risk Management: Wisconsin Silver Jackets Team

    Silver Jackets teams are collaborative, state-led, interagency teams that are continuously working together to reduce flood risk at the state level. Through the Silver Jackets program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and additional federal, state, and sometimes local and tribal agencies provide a unified approach to addressing a state’s flood risk priorities. Often, no single agency has the complete solution, but each may have one or more pieces to contribute. Silver Jackets team activities and projects occur throughout Wisconsin.

  • Floodplain Management Services: Mississippi River Headwaters

    The Floodplain Management Services program educates individuals who live and work in floodplains on flood hazards and the actions they can take to reduce property damage and prevent the loss of life. The program’s objective is to foster public understanding of the options for dealing with flood hazards and to promote prudent use and management of the nation’s floodplains.

  • Floodplain Management Services: Wood County, Wisconsin, Groundwater Study

    This program educates individuals who live and work in floodplains on flood hazards and the actions that those individuals can take to reduce property damage and prevent the loss of life. The program’s objective is to foster public understanding of the options for dealing with flood hazards and to promote prudent use and management of the nation’s floodplains. Projects in the Floodplain Management Services program occur throughout Wisconsin. This project targets the southern half of Wood County, Wisconsin, in central Wisconsin.

  • Hydropower: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Licensing

    Licensing of privately-owned hydropower projects on federal infrastructure and property within the St. Paul District.

  • Interagency and International Services: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Minnesota

    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is a customer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the agencies have a national-level interagency agreement in place for Interagency and International Support. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' support will fill a need for Veterans Affairs regionally by providing rehabilitation and construction services for health care facilities for veterans and their families.

  • Invasive Carp, Upper Mississippi River

    Bighead and silver carp were introduced to the Mississippi River in the 1970s after wastewater treatment ponds were overcome from flooding on the lower Mississippi River. Left uncontrolled, the invasive carp’s feeding habits starve other species and cause turbidity in the waters where they feed, detrimentally altering the habitat that supports native species. Left unchecked, it is concern that the invasive species will continue to expand further upstream into the upper Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The purpose of this project is to monitor and limit the spread of invasive carp species.

  • Marsh Lake Ecosystem Restoration Project, Minnesota

    The purpose of this project is to modify the existing Marsh Lake Dam to increase the biodiversity of the Minnesota River/Lac qui Parle/Pomme de Terre River ecosystem without compromising the flood risk management function of the Marsh Lake Dam.
  • Mississippi River Headwaters reservoirs

    Mississippi River Headwaters Reservoirs, Minnesota

    The Mississippi River Headwaters Project consists of six headwaters dams in north-central Minnesota. The dams were constructed or reconstructed between 1884 and 1913 to aid navigation on the Mississippi River between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Because the navigation mission of the headwaters dams declined with the creation of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Navigation Channel and recreation grew in importance to the region’s economy, the mission shifted to flood risk management, recreation, and environmental stewardship.

  • Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program: Upper Mississippi River System

    The Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) seeks to provide a safe, reliable, cost-effective and environment-sustainable waterborne navigation system by implementing switchboats at five locks and constructing mooring cells and seven new 1,200-foot locks. NESP will restore the aquatic and terrestrial habitat to a more natural condition on more than 100,000 acres throughout the system through a wide variety of ecosystem projects.

  • Navigation: Auxiliary Lock Work at Mississippi River Locks and Dams 3‒10

    Locks and Dams 3 through 10 have auxiliary chambers. Each auxiliary chamber has only a single set of miter gates that could pass shallow draft navigation traffic if the lock chamber was out of operation and the upstream and downstream pools were equalized. At each site, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers only installed one set of miter gates. An auxiliary lock chamber was never authorized by Congress, which would have included a second set of miter gates. Since installation, the auxiliary emergency gates have never been used, and the gate operating machinery was never installed.

  • Navigation: Mississippi River Locks and Dams 2–10, Embankment Rehabilitation Adjacent to Structures

    This embankment rehabilitation project addresses restoring embankments to meet current design standards. Overtopping protection adjacent to concrete structures is the priority for design and construction efforts; no increase in the height of the embankments is planned.

  • Navigation: Mississippi River Locks and Dams 2–10, Nonstructural Embankment Repairs

    A draft Problem Appraisal Report completed in 2017 found that complete riprap overlay of the embankments to rehabilitate rock degradation was not economically justified but that there are other opportunities to improve scour resilience while improving the ecosystem. Some options include creating upstream berms, creating islands to reduce wave fetch, and providing submergible segments with crest superiority at some dams.

  • Navigation: Routine Dam Gate Maintenance

    Maintenance of dam spillway gates are required to avoid degradation and eventual replacement. Cost analyses show it is economically favorable to maintain these gates rather than replace them. There are also reliability and safety concerns with allowing the gates to degrade to the point that they must be replaced.

  • Planning Assistance to States: Thief River Falls, Minnesota

    The purpose of this project is to aid in providing technical assistance to gather baseline river sediment and morphology data. This data will potentially feed into a future feasibility study and project addressing the water quality of the city of Thief River Falls, Minnesota.

  • Section 408: Souris (Mouse) River Basin, North Dakota

    Following the 2011 flood of record event, North Dakota developed a preliminary engineering report that evaluated alternatives to mitigate flood risks throughout the Souris (Mouse) River Basin. The report recommended a flood risk management project that would provide protection up to the 2011 flood of record levels, or approximately 27,400 cubic feet per second.

  • July

    Silver Jackets: Minnesota River Flow-Frequency Analysis

    The Minnesota River Flow-Frequency Analysis project will be assessing the flood risk and resiliency within the Minnesota River Basin. This project will also help Minnesota achieve its hazard mitigation goals through the application of current information and technology to inform potential flow rates of the river and prevent damages from future flood events.

  • September

    Tribal Partnership Program: Red Lake Fish Passage and Wetland Restoration, Minnesota

    This study will address the degradation of culturally significant habitat faced by the Red Lake Nation on their tribal lands along the Red Lake River and the Zah Gheeng Marsh in Minnesota. Additionally, this study will assess and make recommendations related to fish passage through a low-head dam and habitat restoration opportunities within the Zah Gheeng Marsh along the Red Lake River.

  • Tribal Partnership Program: Sturgeon Lake Habitat Improvement, Minnesota

    The purpose of this project is to address sedimentation, erosion and degradation of culturally significant habitat on the Prairie Island Indian Community’s tribal land in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota. Priority objectives identified in the feasibility study are to (1) reduce shoreline erosion on Buffalo Slough Island and (2) improve/restore floodplain forest habitat on Buffalo Slough Island; these priority objectives will be carried forward in the design and implementation phase of the project.

  • Tribal Partnership Program: Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota River, Minnesota

    This study addresses erosion issues along the Minnesota River adjacent to Upper Sioux Community tribal lands and makes recommendations related to those issues.
  • WABASHA, Minn. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District's Dredge Goetz conducts dredging operations in the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minn., June 8, 2011.

    Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Navigation Project: Maintenance

    The St. Paul District is responsible for maintaining 244 miles of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Navigation Project for inland navigation.

  • Upper Mississippi River Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program: Sny Magill Project, Iowa

    This Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program study is a partnership with the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The study will consider alternatives including riverbank stabilization and protection, floodplain restoration, closure or partial closure structures, and in-channel diversion structures.

  • Upper Mississippi River Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program: Wacouta Bay Project, Wisconsin

    Concerns over habitat deficiencies in Wacouta Bay, most resulting from sedimentation and turbidity, include reduced aquatic and terrestrial habitat diversity and quality, lack of aquatic vegetation, lack of protected wetlands, and reduced abundance of fish and wildlife. The Wacouta Bay project is a Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program study that will consider alternatives including island building and enhancement, forest enhancement and creation, backwater restoration and dredging, island and shoreline protection, and use of dredged material.

  • Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program: McGregor Lake Habitat Restoration, Wisconsin

    The purpose of this project is to support diverse and abundant native fish, wildlife and plants while sustaining a high level of environmental health and promoting recreation opportunities.

  • Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program: Reno Bottoms Habitat Restoration, Iowa and Minnesota

    The objective of this project is to protect, restore or create resilient and diverse bottomland forests. The quality and extent of the unique forest and aquatic habitat in the Reno Bottoms project area has been declining over the past several decades. Human-caused changes in hydrology, land use, and climate have increased water levels within the project area. Without action, the project area will continue to degrade.