DIRECTORY the Gulf of Mexico. The district covers an area of approximately 139,000 square miles, and its borders follow the edges of four river basins – the Mississippi River, the Red River of the North, the Souris River, and the Rainy River. This area includes most of Minnesota, the western half of Wisconsin, the northeastern section of North Dakota, and small portions of South Dakota and northeastern Iowa. Today, the St. Paul District supports inland navigation by maintaining the 9-foot navigation channel and operating 12 locks and dams for navigation on the Mississippi River. The district helps communities reduce damages caused by flooding by building flood risk management projects and operating 16 reservoirs for flood risk reduction, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and water supply. It can also assist communities by responding to floods and other natural disasters. It provides engineering services to the DOD and other federal agencies to include FEMA. It issues permits for work in wetlands and navigable rivers and is responsible for an environmental restoration program to improve fish and wildlife habitat. In addition, the district maintains 49 recreation areas open to the public.
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and management framework for USACE critical infrastructure protection and resilience, dam safety, and levee safety programs. It also provides critical feedback necessary to refine and update USACE guidance and policies for dam and levee safety.
NORTH ATLANTIC DIVISION 302 General Lee Avenue • Brooklyn, NY 11252-6700 Tel: 347-370-4550 The North Atlantic Division is one of nine regions providing engineering and construction services to the nation. Headquartered at Fort Hamilton Brooklyn, New York, USACE’s North Atlantic Division (NAD) is a robust team of about 3,500 men and women who work together to execute the diverse missions of USACE in the northeastern United States as well as in Europe and Africa. In the continental United States, it services the Department of Defense (DOD) and federal and state agencies from Maine to Virginia, including the District of Columbia. It is USACE’s
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VICKSBURG DISTRICT 4155 East Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS 39183-3435 Tel: 601-631-5000 The Vicksburg District encompasses 68,000 square miles in three states with a $250 million annual water resources program. Seven major river basins fall in the district’s jurisdiction, including the Mississippi, Red, Ouachita, Pearl, and Yazoo rivers. The district is charged with several key projects that are critical to the economic and military security of the nation and that keep the district at the forefront of international engineering. These include: developing and maintaining a 9-foot-deep navigation channel on 278 miles of the Mississippi River; constructing and operating an expansive flood-control system that to date has prevented $50 billion in flood damages; operating three of the 16 hydroelectric plants in Arkansas, which include Blakely Mountain at Lake Ouachita, Narrows at Lake Greeson, and DeGray at DeGray Lake, capable of generating 168,500 kilowatts of electricity; key environmental projects such as restoring the water quality in Arkansas’ largest natural lake, Lake Chicot, and the restoration of thousands of acres of bottomland hardwoods in the Mississippi Delta; 12 river ports in Mississippi and Louisiana, with the capacity to handle more than 9.5 million tons of cargo; the Ouachita-Black rivers’ navigation project and the J. Bennett Johnston navigation project on the Red River are multipurpose projects providing navigation, recreation, flood control, water supply, and fish and wildlife benefits; and a recreation program that attracts nearly 10 million visitors annually to nine lakes and provides $200 million in benefits to local economies. The district is also home to the national Modeling, Mapping, and Consequences production center (MMC). The MMC supports more than 20 USACE districts throughout the United States in the production of hydrologic and hydraulics models, economic consequences models, and flood inundation mapping. These models and maps support a risk-based assessment, prioritization,