TOXIC CHEMICALS are sitting in our water and we're working with the EPA to clean it up! We're removing 57,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment in Otter Creek in Toledo/Oregon, Ohio and restoring nature to its purity.
Ashley Binion-Zuccaro, USACE Buffalo District project manager, and Mark Schwab, USACE Buffalo District contracting officers representative, give us a tour of the site.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District flood damage reduction projects prevented $137.9 million of flood damage in New York and Ohio during Fiscal Year 2020 and prevented approximately $4.25 billion in cumulative damages over the life span of the projects.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District received a total of $140,542,000 in the Fiscal Year 2021 Work Plan to complete projects across the District’s area of responsibility. This includes the $34,405,000 the District had already received in the Fiscal Year 2021 President’s Budget.
