Engineers Friday News Today

A draft report released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Friday offered a non-structured plan for the voluntary elevation of almost 3,000 homes in the Amite River watershed, including several areas in the capital region. 

Canyon Lake is inching closer to a historic low after two brutally hot and arid Texas summers.

Federal officials pause plan to rename Georgia's Lake Lanier from 41NBC News | WMGT-DT

Federal officials are pausing a plan that could lead to new names for Georgia's Lake Lanier and Buford Dam after locals objected to changing the monikers of landmarks now named for Confederate soldiers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a plan to possibly rename Lake Lanier and Buford Dam due to ties to Confederate soldiers on pause.

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U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican who represents much of northeast Georgia, said he called the Corps of Engineers Friday to express opposition.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced the plan's pause Friday pending further guidance from the Department of the Army.

Federal officials are pausing a proposal to rename Georgia’s Lake Lanier and Buford Dam, both names that come from onetime Confederate soldiers

News briefs and calendar items, including cancelations, this week from Fountain Valley, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach.