https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil Portland District News RSS Feed en-us Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:00:08 GMT Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:36:59 GMT https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Media/Feature-Stories/Article/2670885/big-bertha-heads-to-benson-beach-battles-erosion/ Off the coast of Oregon, Big Bertha moves in the water, inching toward land. Bertha, as her government creators to refer to it, is the result of three years of inter-agency planning. Her architects; some of whom work for the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; conscripted half of Portland District’s dredge fleet to scrape the river bottom and collect what was to become Bertha: a migrating mound of sand.<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2013/Jun/13/2000754469/115/75/0/130613-A-FV175-007.JPG' alt='The Essayons travelled north to the Corps’ Alaska District, to dredge the Cook Inlet Navigation Channel. A sudden surge of shoal material in the past two years reduced depths and affected navigation in the channel, which is the only Coast Guard marked route for all cargo and fuel ships supplying the Port of Anchorage. ' /> <br /> Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:00:08 GMT Kerry Solan https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Media/Feature-Stories/Article/2670885/big-bertha-heads-to-benson-beach-battles-erosion/ Coastal Management Dredging Mouth of the Columbia River Navigation U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division