Corps of Engineers

noun

1. a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for military and many civil engineering projects.

Example Sentences

Koerner was told by an Army Corps of Engineers official to pour his new foundation as soon as the contamination was cleared, even if he hadn’t gotten an insurance check yet.

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Precisely which agencies and entities would need to sign off on the project depends on the pipeline route, but “are likely to involve authorizations to cross federal lands, mitigation of any impacts to endangered species and permits from the Army Corps of Engineers for any discharges to waters of the U.S. caused by any pipeline construction,” Smith said.

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The US Army Corps of Engineers would need to think these things through and figure out how to make them happen.

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Army Corps of Engineers used just over three acres of the park as a processing site for trees and shrubs from the fire zone.

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Army Corps of Engineers, fearing that the government contractors were inflexible and would haphazardly remove salvageable sections of the estate, according to Jon Mansfield, a representative of the owner who appeared at the board meeting on their behalf.

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