Quick Facts

Civil Works boundaries

• All or parts of 12 States:  WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, CO, IA, MO, NE, KS
• Nearly 1 million square miles drained in Columbia and Missouri River basins
• 27 Investigations (studies)
• 34 projects in construction
• 115 projects operate/maintain
• Real estate holdings: 2,584,745 acres

Military boundaries

• 14 states: OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, CO, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI
• Real estate: 1,843,870 acres
• 13 Army installations
• 13 Air Force installations
• 6 Space Force installations

Regional Resources

• Fiscal Year 2011 workforce: 4,800 civilian, 25 military
• Combined annual budget: $2.25 billion
• Civil workload: $910 million
• Military workload: $1.1 billion
• Environmental: $870 million
• Fiscal Year 2011 contracts obligated $2.2 billion; 4500 actions
• Fiscal Year 2011$1.1 billion in small business awards

Navigation

• 992 miles navigable on  Columbia River Basin
• 735 miles navigable on Missouri River Basin
• Total = 14 percent of U.S. inland waterways
• Transport
  • 5.4 percent of U.S. total waterborne tonnage
  • 140 million tons of 2.6 billion tons shipped nationwide
  • 10 locks in NWD of Corps’ 237 total locks
    • Columbia  & Snake rivers: 8 locks
    • Willamette River: 1 lock
    • Lake Washington: 1 lock
• Portas and Harbors
  • 22 deep draft (>14 ft.) ports
  • 20 shallow draft harbors
  • Material dredged: 18.9 million cubic yards
  • Two hopper dredges: Yaquina and Essayons

Flood Risk Management Projects

• 22 flood control projects in Columbia River Basin
• 53 flood control projects in Missouri River Basin
• 7 in other locations in the Pacific Northwest
• NWD projects hold 35 percent of total Corps water storage capacity
• 115 million acre-feet of flood storage at NWD projects
• 1,440 miles of levees
• 255 local flood protection projects (flood walls, levees, channel improvements)
• Construction costs for major flood control projects
  • Missouri River: $9.6 billion
  • Columbia River $2.5 billion
• $91.2 billion in cumulative damages prevented since construction
• $73.4 billion in Missouri River region ($7.6 billion in 2011 alone)
• $17.8 billion in Pacific Northwest region 

Native American Coordination

• 72 Indian reservations
• 105 Native American Nations
• $6 million Cultural Resources program

Recreation

• 64 lakes
• 755 recreation sites
• 55 visitor centers
• 515 boat ramps
• 9,500 campsites/430 group
• 11,550 miles of lakeshore
• 50 million visits in Fiscal Year 2011
• Annual visitor expenditures: $1 billion; 13,000 jobs created or dependent on Corps recreation
• 4,900 site volunteers (contribution valued at $2 million)

Hydroelectric Power

• 29 plants on Columbia, Snake, and Missouri rivers
• 15,568 mega-watt capacity; 196 units;
• Generate 75 million mega-watt hours electricity annually
• Provide 36 percent of total electric capacity in Pacific Northwest
• Provide 9 percent of total electric capacity in Missouri River region
• NWD projects provide 75 percent of total Corps hydroelectric capacity
• Supply electricity to 3 major power marketing agencies~ about $3 billion annually

Water Supply

• 19 municipal projects provide water to 3.5 million households
• 6.5 million acres irrigated by Columbia River
• 55,000 acres acres irrigated by Missouri River

Environment

Fish and Wildlife

• $870 million total Fiscal Year 2011 ENV/IIS execution
• $158 million Superfund projects
• $58 million FUSRAP
• $125 millionFUDS
• $152 million IRP/BRAC
• $5.4 million Environmental Interagency and International Support
• $342 million Non-Environmental IIS
• $29.7 million Environmental Quality
  • $128 million in Fiscal Year 2012 PBUD Columbia River Fish Mitigation Program
  • $73 million in Fiscal Year 2012 PBUD Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Program

Regulatory Programs

Emergency Response

• $22.5 million program in 5 districts and 11 states
• 6,800 permits decisions issued (300  individual & 6,500general)
• 46 percent Individual permits made within target of 120 days 
• 80 percent General permits made within target of 60 days
• 1031 Endangered Species Act consultations completed
• 1182 Tribal consultations completed
• 440 Historic properties consultations completed 
  • 8  major responses since 2006
  • Number deployed: 1,300 since 2006
  • $76 million spent in response & recovery
  • 35 major rehab projects completed in 2011 ($101 million )
  • 925 deployed to Middle East since 2006