The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced the Civil Works studies, projects, and programs that would be implemented in Fiscal Year 2022. $22.81 billion in supplemental funding was provided by two recently enacted laws — the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; and the 2022 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act
The spend plan will continue to support the Administration goals of expanded access to America’s ports through dredging, as well as building resilience in the face of global climate change, while benefiting economically disadvantaged communities and regions, and advancing environmental justice.
“The Army will work with community partners to leverage these historic Civil Works funds for investments that strengthen national supply chains through our commercial navigation mission, help communities impacted by climate change to increase their resiliency, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind,” said The Honorable Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serving Smith County has received funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to complete several projects. These funds will be used to advance projects that save lives and protect property from the devastation of flooding.
A $50,000 feasibility study in Carthage, Tennessee will set goals to protect a large raw material holding tank and prevent it from failing, which could release pollutants into the Cumberland River. Just under $2 million will be spent to benefit Cordell Hull Dam Powerplant supervisory control and data acquisition, electric line replacement at Salt Lick Campground, sanitary facilities at Defeated Creek Day Use Recreation Area at Cordell Hull Lake.
The District that serves Smith County is called The Nashville District. It touches seven states, covers 59,000 square miles, operates and maintains 1,175 commercially navigable river miles, almost 10 percent of the total within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The district operates and maintains 10 dams in the Cumberland River Basin, and 14 navigation lock projects – nine on the Tennessee River and four on the Cumberland River, and 146 recreation areas, 25 developed campgrounds and primitive camping areas in Kentucky and Tennessee.
