Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Fact Sheets

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Press Operations — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:57:00 GMT

Through the GLRI, the Army Corps plans, designs, and constructs restoration projects in collaboration with states and other non-federal partners.

Great Lakes Remedial Action Plans

Press Operations — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:03:00 GMT

This program enables the Corps of Engineers to provide technical assistance to state & local agencies or non-profit organizations for the development or implementation of Remedial Action Plans at Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs).

Section 408: Alter an Army Corps Civil Works Project

Press Operations — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:21:00 GMT

The Army Corps provides the Nation with quality and responsive management of the Nation’s water

Continuing Authorities Program (CAP)

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:07:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) is a group of nine legislative authorities under which USACE can plan, design, and implement certain types of water resources projects without additional project specific congressional authorization.

Construction Quality Management

Press Operations — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:28:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) requires all contractors performing construction for them to comply with the Contractor Quality Control (CQC), provisions in their contracts.

Dam Safety

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:38:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) operates and maintains approximately 740 dams and associated structures nationwide that provide significant, multiple benefits to the nation—its people, businesses, critical infrastructure and the environment. These benefits include flood risk management, navigation, water supply, hydropower, environmental stewardship, fish and wildlife conservation and recreation.

Flood Plain Management Services

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:26:00 GMT

The Army Corps can provide the full range of technical services and planning guidance that is needed to support effective flood plain management.

Formerly Used Defense Sites Program

Press Operations — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:18:00 GMT

During the past 200 years, some activities supporting military readiness resulted in the need for environmental cleanup within the United States and its territories. The Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are committed to protecting human health and the environment and improving public safety by cleaning up these properties.

Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

Press Operations — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:21:00 GMT

Under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is cleaning up sites with contamination resulting from the Nation’s early atomic energy program.

Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:21:00 GMT

The Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Study is a comprehensive watershed assessment of the Great Lakes coastal areas and identifies coastal areas that could be vulnerable to future storms, flooding, extreme low or high water levels, erosion, and accretion; the identification of a range of actions to improve coastal resiliency; and the development of a collaborative-risk informed-decision framework to support the identification and prioritize of coastal investments by federal, state, and local governments, Tribal Nations, and nongovernmental organizations. The study is an estimated 6 year and $14.4 million cost-shared study with the Great Lakes states: Illinois, Indiana, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration Program (GLFER)

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:33:00 GMT

Under the GLFER program, the Corps of Engineers plan, design, and construct projects to restore and protect aquatic habitat.

Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS)

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:07:00 GMT

The Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study that presents a range of options and technologies to prevent aquatic nuisance species (ANS) movement between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins through aquatic connections. See the map below to view the location of these basins and the GLMRIS study area. Through a structured study process, USACE identified ANS of Concern established in one basin with the risk for transfer to the other, analyzed and evaluated available controls, and formulated alternatives with the goal of preventing ANS transfer between the two basins, specifically within the Chicago Area Waterway System.

Hydropower Program

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:04:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Hydropower Program is the largest generator of hydropower in the US, with 75 power-producing dams housing 356 individual generating units. USACE’s hydropower assets generate more than 70 billion kilowatt hours per year of clean renewable energy. This clean energy is enough to power 10 cities the size of Seattle. Additionally, the revenue generated by the USACE hydropower fleet is used to repay the original construction costs of the hydropower projects and to fund the operation, maintenance and modernization investments of the hydropower fleet.

Levee Safety

Press Operations — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:55:00 GMT

Levee systems are part of our nation’s landscape and important to communities because of the benefits they provide. For example, more than 13 million people live or work behind levees in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Levee Safety Program. And, public and private property worth more than one trillion dollars are behind these levees.

Planning Assistance to the States and Tribal Nations

Press Operations — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:05:00 GMT

The Planning Assistance to States program is authorized by Section 22 of WRDA 1974, as amended, and is often referred to by the acronym, PAS, and sometimes referred to as the “Section 22” program.

Water Quality

Press Operations — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:56:00 GMT

Water quality teams are responsible for monitoring and evaluating water quality within the corps' reservoirs and several river miles of the Ohio River within the Great Lake and Ohio River Division civil-works boundaries.