15 Apr 2025

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.

15 Apr 2025

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.

16 Apr 2025

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.