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  • 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.

  • USACE Mobile District Announces Public Meetings for ACT River Basin

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District is scheduled to host four open- house public meetings Dec. 9 – Dec. 12, 2019, at various locations throughout the Alabama-Coosa- Tallapoosa River Basin in Georgia and Alabama. This is part of the public review and comment process 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, to be released on Nov. 15, 2019.

  • USACE Waives Day Use Fees At Recreation Areas For Veterans Day

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Nov. 6, 2019, that it will waive day use fees for boat launch ramps and swimming beaches at its more than 2,850 USACE-operated recreation areas nationwide in observance of Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11.

  • USACE TO HOST YOUTH HUNTERS AT ALLATOONA LAKE FOR ARCHERY DEER HUNT

    MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at Allatoona Lake is scheduled to host an archery-only deer hunt on McKinney Campground Dec. 7 - 8, 2019, for youth hunters, starting at 5:00 a.m. Youth hunters 15 years old, and younger, are eligible for participation but must have an adult hunting assistant, 21 years or older, with a valid Georgia Big Game License.