The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, has finalized a 20-year plan to maintain the lower Columbia River’s deep-draft navigation channel, a critical artery for the nation’s economy.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announces the availability of a new, comprehensive historical manuscript detailing the cultural, maritime, and engineering history of the Coos Bay North Jetty on the Oregon coast. The document is now available to the public and researchers via the USACE Digital Library.

The early 1800s heralded a period of immense change for the Coos Bay area with the arrival of its first non-Indigenous people: fur traders seeking fortune and military expeditions charting the new frontier. The discovery of gold and coal along Oregon’s southern coast in the 1850s intensified the rush of land speculation that followed.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, is seeking proposals from Non-Federal Public Entities and Non-Profit Entities interested in entering into a Challenge Cost-Sharing Cooperative Management Agreement (CCSCMA) for the purpose of collaboratively managing a designated recreation area at John Day Lock and Dam. CCSCMAs may be established for an initial term of up to ten (10) years, with an additional five (5) option years available without further competition.

LePage day-use area and beach are shown here in 2009. LePage is one of several parks that is owned and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at its John Day Dam location on the Columbia River near Rufus, Oregon.

Hills Creek Dam is one of 13 flood risk management dams managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

The Oregonian recognized the Corps' efforts to save the downtown Portland area from the flooding.