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  • Piney Grove, Whitten Campgrounds Move To 100 Percent Reservable

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District in Bay Springs, Mississippi announces camping season at Piney Grove Campground, Bay Springs Lake, and Whitten Campground, Fulton, Mississippi, will begin March 1, 2020, with all sites reservable.

  • USACE To Host 4 Open House Meetings For Lake Lanier’s Recreation Capacity Study, Master Plan Update

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District is scheduled to host four open-house meetings Feb. 24 – 27, 2020, to update the public on the results of the Recreation Capacity Study and Master Plan Update for Lake Sidney Lanier in Georgia.

  • Buford Dam Road, Park Areas To Temporarily Close

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at Lake Sidney Lanier announces Buford Dam Road will be closed to traffic in order to complete roadway repairs, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 22. Repairs are expected to be completed by 5:00 p.m., reopening Buford Dam Road to traffic.

  • USACE West Point Lake Accepting Organic Christmas Trees

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at West Point Lake is accepting organic (i.e., naturally grown) Christmas trees for recycling until Jan. 10, 2020. Artificial trees will not be accepted.

  • USACE Allatoona Lake To Temporarily Close McKinney Campground For Upcoming New Year

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District scheduled the closing of McKinney Campground from Jan. 1 to May 15, 2020, in order to place it on the sewer system for Bartow County, Georgia.

  • USACE Mobile District Extends Comment Period For Allatoona Lake Draft FR/SEIS, Weiss Logan Martin Water Control Manuals

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District announces a 30-day addition to the comment period for the Draft Feasibility Report and Integrated Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FR/SEIS) for the Allatoona Lake Water Supply Storage Reallocation Study and Updates to Weiss and Logan Martin Reservoirs Project Water Control Manuals, Alabama and Georgia, extending the public comment period to Jan. 29, 2020.

  • USACE Allatoona Lake To Accept Organic Christmas Trees For Recycling

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at Allatoona Lake announced Dec. 17, 2019, it will accept organic Christmas trees for recycling from Dec. 26, 2019, to Jan. 3, 2020, at seven drop-off sites around the lake. Artificial trees will not be accepted.

  • USACE Tenn-Tom Waterway To Accept Electronic Payments Only At Recreation Sites

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project in Columbus, Mississippi, is only accepting credit and debit cards as a form of payment at DeWayne Hayes Day Use Recreation Area and Cochrane Campground effective Dec. 13, 2019, with multiple recreation sites to follow, starting in 2020.

  • USACE Inspecting, Repainting West Point Lake Boundary Line

    MOBILE, Ala. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at West Point Lake Project announced that the project’s operations and maintenance contractor, East O&M, will begin the seasonal maintenance of the Government property line around the reservoir on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019.

  • USACE To Close Vineyard Mountain Trail For December

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at Allatoona Lake Project will close Vineyard Mountain Trail from Dec. 1 – Dec. 31, 2019, due to scheduled hunting activities in the area.