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Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Huntington, WV, us • 1000 - 4999 Employees
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The Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - encompasses 45,000 square miles in parts of five states, including West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. It is responsible for 311 navigable miles along the Ohio River and 98 navigable miles on the Kanawha River and includes the Nation's second largest Inland Waterway port, the Port of Huntington. In the most recent year of data available, more than 69 million tons of commodities valued at more than $17 billion passed through our locks and dams on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers amounting to more than 28,000 lockages. The locks and dams built and operated by the Corps make efficient year-round navigation transportation possible not only in the Tri-State area, but across the nation. The Huntington District employs around 1000 people. The District's program includes the operation and maintenance of nine locks and dams on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, 35 flood damage reduction projects and dredging on the Ohio, Big Sandy and Kanawha Rivers. In addition, riverfront improvements, flood risk management initiatives, environmental mitigation, and infrastructure activities make up the District's robust Civil Works program.The environmental infrastructure program provides design and construction assistance to non-Federal interests, including nonprofit entities, for carrying out water related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in southern and central West Virginia, eastern and southern Kentucky and Ohio.We have two centers of expertise at district, the Planning Center of Expertise for Inland Navigation and Risk Informed Economics Division (PCXIN-RED) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dam Safety Modification Mandatory Center of Expertise (DSMMCX) and Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Dam Safety Production Center (DSPC).