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December 12, 2014

Army Corps head says U.S. is falling behind on levees, dams, ports

  • The agency has $23.5 billion in authorized projects, but its annual budget for the work is about $1.5 billion.
    • By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
    Associated Press

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The nation is falling behind on maintaining its aging levees, dams, ports and harbors and needs to get creative as it seeks ways to pay for the critical projects, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' commander general said Wednesday.

    Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick told reporters that finishing all the projects that have been authorized would cost about $23.5 billion but that the corps' annual budget for the work usually hovers around $1.5 billion. He said that figure doesn't include addressing a maintenance backlog as projects — many of them decades old — exceed their design life.


     
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