DIAMOND BLUFF, Wis. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $374,400 contract to an Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, company, LS Marine, to save a riverside dump for dredged material from washing back into the Mississippi River. The dump, called Corps Island, is at-risk for erosion that could carry the sediment back into the main river navigation channel. The project is scheduled for fall, followed in spring with willow cuttings and other new vegetation to keep the muck confined.
Corps Island dump. One of many unsightly and controversial Corps sites that the Corps describes as “temporary.”