OMAHA, NE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public scoping meeting from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Lewis and Clark Missouri River Visitors Center, located on 100 Valmont Drive, in Nebraska City, Neb. The purpose of the meeting is to seek public input on the development of shallow water habitat at two Missouri River Recovery Program sites: Copeland Bend located east of Nebraska City in Fremont County, Iowa, and Langdon Bend located two miles east of Nemaha, Neb.
Both projects will create additional shallow water habitat intended to benefit the federally endangered pallid sturgeon and other native fish and wildlife species. Creation of this habitat is necessary to fulfill recommendations in the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Biological Opinion for the Operation of the Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir System, Operation and Maintenance of the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project, and Operation of the Kansas River Reservoir System.
The meeting will be an open house format where members of the public and interested stakeholders will have the opportunity to visit information stations and talk with project team members one-on-one about the Copeland Bend and Langdon Bend projects. A court reporter will also be in attendance to gather formal comments for the record.
Input may be submitted during the public meeting or mailed to the contacts below.
For the Copeland Bend Project:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District
ATTN: CENWO-PM-AC (Dave Crane)
1616 Capitol Avenue
Omaha, NE 68102-4901
david.j.crane@usace.army.mil
For the Langdon Bend Project:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District
ATTN: CENWO-PM-AC (Rebecca Bozarth)
1616 Capitol Avenue
Omaha, NE 68102-4901
rebecca.l.bozarth@usace.army.mil
Release no. 20150731-002