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  • President signs 2023 NDAA authorizing USACE to move forward on major Seattle-area projects

    President Joe Biden signed the 2022 Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) December 23, which lawmakers included in the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023. This action includes authorizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with planning a downstream fish passage facility at Howard A. Hanson Dam in King County, Washington and a wider and deeper waterway in Tacoma, Washington.

  • Army Corps responding to Western Washington flooding

    The Emergency Operations Center at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activated Friday and the Snohomish River basin flood team has been active this weekend assisting local communities at Union Slough near Everett and in Index, Washington.

  • Army Corps ready to respond as Western Washington rivers on flood watch

    SEATTLE—The Emergency Operations Center at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is activated and on extended shifts until further notice as flood watches and warnings have been issued for Western Washington rivers. Rivers are expected to crest Saturday night into Sunday.

  • Corps of Engineers assisting with Northwest flood fights and coastal storm

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, has flood teams out in several basins around the Northwest to respond to flooding and a predicted coastal storm. Skagit, Snohomish, Olympic Peninsula, and Chehalis flood teams and White River levee walkers remain out with local communities. Work is wrapping up today in Lyman along the Skagit River and at the Hoh Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula. The Olympic Peninsula team will stay out until the threat from the predicted combined coastal storm and high tide passes.

  • Corps of Engineers assisting with Northwest flood fights

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, is running its Reservoir Control Center 24 hours per day and has sent flood teams out to basins around the Northwest to respond to heavy rains and forecast high coastal waves. The Corps has sent out its Skagit, Snohomish, Olympic, and Chehalis flood teams and White River levee walkers and continues to coordinate with counties and emergency managers.

  • Army Corps begins annual spring fill of Howard Hanson Dam

    SEATTLE – Water managers have begun slowly filling the reservoir at Howard Hanson Dam at the