A towboat moves barges with commodities March 13, 2024, at the confluence of the Mississippi River and Ohio River. This perspective is from Fort Defiance Park in Cairo, Illinois. (USACE Video by Leon Roberts)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 24, 2024) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District completed an Environmental Assessment (EA), under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to update the Center Hill Dam and Reservoir Water Control Manual. As a result of this update, the Nashville District is implementing operational changes at Center Hill.
The EA evaluated eight action alternatives, which included analyzing a period of recorded data (1998-2022), new and rehabilitated structural features, watershed characteristics, communication networks, naming conventions, changes from previously approved EAs and modern forecasting methods.
“The manual was updated to capture changes in the basin over the last 20 years and to...
