Corps of Engineers – Alaska District Welcomes New Deputy Chief of Regulatory Division
Sara Longan assumed duties as the Deputy Chief of the Regulatory Division for the US Army Corps of Engineers–Alaska District in January.
Sara Longan assumed duties as the Deputy Chief of the Regulatory Division for the US Army Corps of Engineers–Alaska District in January.
The only nuclear power plant to ever operate in Alaska is being decommissioned this year, but Copper Valley Electric Association is looking at new reactor technology to give nuclear energy a new future.
Major construction projects in Alaska get an infusion of nearly $1 billion in federal funds. The US Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District received authorization and funding for an array of civil works.
Krystle Burns assumed duties as the Chief of Workforce Management for the US Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District in November 2021.
Construction is complete on the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) at Clear Space Force Station in the Interior. Now testing begins.
In its largest civil works project in more than thirty years, the US Army Corps of Engineers–Alaska District will begin reinforcing a portion of the Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project’s eight-mile-long earthen dam by spring 2022.
The district aims to construct a new flood diversion system for Lowell Creek in Seward, at an expected cost of about $185.2 million.
At the edge of the Last Frontier, the completed barrier will protect critical military infrastructure from storm damage for the next half century.
The projects include the Moose Creek Dam, Port of Nome, Craig Harbor, and Elim Harbor.
Governor Mike Dunleavy announced that the Alaska Department of Law will file an administrative appeal with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pacific Ocean Division, over the Alaska District’s decision to deny the 404 permit for the proposed Pebble Project in Southwest Alaska.