Rhonda Cole, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District CIO/G6 operations officer, center, poses with her family at her retirement ceremony at the Mobile District annex building in Mobile, Alabama, July 14, 2023. Cole, who retired after 40 years of service in the federal government, said her family has been her rock throughout her career. (U.S. Army photo by Chuck Walker)
Major Carlos Viniclus Carneiro Santana, Brazilian Army, speaks at the Multi-Lateral Disaster Lessons Learned Workshop at the Readiness Support Center, Mobile, Alabama, June 13, 2023. Santana, along with other participants from Peru, Brazil, Chile, and U.S. Army South, shared lessons learned when they dealt with recent disasters in their countries. (U.S. Army photo by Chuck Walker)
Scott Payne, sitting, Supervisory Park Ranger, and Mark Dean, Operations Project Manager, discuss budget issues in the Project Management Office at Okatibbee Lake, Mississippi, May 31, 2023. Dean has been working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985 and has been Project Manager since 2012.
Cindy Zaiontz-DeFelice daughter of Mrs. Agnes Goodman Zaiontz, christens the new survey vessel Miss Agnes in a ceremony in Columbus, Mississippi, April 28, 2023. The Miss Agnes is newest survey vessel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. (U.S. Army photo by Jeremy Murray)
Students check out the interactive sand table in the new Carter Lake Nature Center in Carters Lake, Georgia, April 28, 2023. Carters Lake turned its Nature Center into a state-of-the-art experience for visitors with virtual reality kiosks, interactive games, holographic exhibits.

Around the District

Challenge Cost Sharing Cooperative Management Agreement
6/16/2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Sidney Lanier is seeking non-Federal public entities to submit proposals for the co-management of certain recreation areas at Lake Sidney Lanier. Non-Federal...
Below Normal Rainfall Conditions Impacting Federal Reservoir Levels in ACF River Basin
6/9/2023
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District is responding to below normal rainfall conditions impacting federal reservoir levels in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Basin. Lower reservoir...
Margaritaville on Lake Lanier Islands Fence Installation
5/23/2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District has been inquired by several members of the public regarding the recent restriction of access to Lake Lanier from the Margaritaville at Lanier Islands...

Public Notice

GULFPORT HARBOR OM Public Notice

Interested persons are hereby notified that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District proposes to continue maintenance dredging of the federally authorized Gulfport Harbor Navigation Project, Harrison County, Mississippi. Material would be placed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site (ODMDS), approved Section 404 open-water sites west of the channel in Mississippi Sound via thin-layer disposal, or in a littoral zone disposal site southeast of Cat Island.
Published: 7/24/2023

INACTIVE OCEAN DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL SITES (ODMDS)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division (USACE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4 have prepared a draft Site Management and Monitoring Plan (SMMP) to specifically address the disposal of dredged material at the Southeastern United States Inactive Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Sites (ODMDS). Comments on this draft SMMP are requested from the public, other agencies and all interested parties.
Published: 6/13/2023