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    USACE celebrates completion of Kissimmee River Restoration Project

    LORIDA, Fla. - July 29, 2021 --The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District celebrated a ribbon-cutting event to commemorate the completion of the construction for the Kissimmee River Restoration Project. The Kissimmee River Restoration Project restores more than 40 square miles of the river floodplain ecosystem, 20,000 acres of wetlands, and 44 miles of the historic river channel.
  • Contractors work to build a cutoff wall deep in the Herbert Hoover Dike, improving the safety of the people who live and work near Lake Okeechobee.

    HHD Rehabilitation project improves community safety

    It's the safety benefits that make the Herbert Hoover Dike cutoff wall so important to those living around Lake Okeechobee, even if they never actually see it.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District manages and operates several lock and dams on its waterways. Pictured (left) is Glenn Huston, one lock operator pulling the rock for a small boat to lock into the chamber for 20 minutes as water is released from the Caloosahatchee River in Alva, Florida on April 25, 2021.

    W.P. Franklin lock operator grants all-access tour

    You don’t have to be a pirate to know that safety lock and dam operators have the pleasure of monitoring the nation’s most precious treasure; delicate blue waterways. The communications team got an inside look into the day-to-day operations from W.P. Franklin lock operator Glenn Hutson.