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MG Kimberly Peeples Commanding General Mississippi Valley Division February 19, 2025

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

DIVISION REGIONAL

INDUSTRY DAY

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DIVISION

• 1 of 9 Division Commands

• 6 District Offices

• 4,500+ employees

• Mississippi River Commission

• 12 Governors

• 24 Senators

• 58 Congressional Districts

"Listening, Inspecting, Partnering, and Engineering since 1897"

• All hazard planning, training, and exercises

• Interagency coordination

• Emergency Management Accreditation

• Response

• Recovery

M ISSISSIP P I VAL L E Y D IVISIO N

M ISSISSIP P I R IVE R C O M M ISSIO N

Mission:

T h e m issio n o f th e U .S. Ar m y C o r p s o f E n gin e e r s in th e M ississip p i Va lle y is to se r v e th e r e g io n b y p r o v id in g v ita l p u b lic e n gin e e r in g se r v ice s an d ste w ar d sh ip o f w a te r r e so u r ce in f r a st r u c tu r e , p a r tn e r in g in p e ace an d w ar , st r e n gth e n in g o u r n a t io n ’s se cu r ity , e n e r g iz in g th e e co n o m y , an d r e d u c in g r isk s f r o m d isa ste r s. T h e m issio n is a cco m p lish e d b y tw o d ist in c t , co m p le m e n ta r y o r gan iza t io n s - -th e M ississip p i Va lle y D iv isio n an d th e M ississip p i R iv e r C o m m issio n .

Navigation

Flood Risk Reduction

Environmental Stewardship

Hydropower

Emergency Operations

Regulatory

Support for Others

• 1 of 9 Division Commands

• 6 District Offices

• 12 Governors

• 24 Senators

• 58 Congressional

Districts

• 370,000 square mile boundaries

• 4,500 plus employees

• 4,267 miles of commercial waterways

• 62 locks

• 621 million tons of cargo moved on the MS River each year

• 7 deep draft ports

• 54 shallow commercial and recreational draft ports

• Approx. 3,700 miles on the Mississippi River and Tributaries levee system

• Levees, levee systems, floodwalls, reservoirs, and non-structural methods all make up the Mississippi Valley's inventory of flood risk reduction

Recreation

• More than 2 million acres (land and water)

• More than 27 million visitors each year

• $986 million in visitor spending each year

• 4 Hydropower plants

• Average annual energy generation - 380,000

MWh

• Power marketed by Southwestern Power

Administration

• Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act: Regulates all work in navigable waters

• Interagency coordination Clean Water Act: Regulates discharges of dredged or fill material into all waters

• Section 103 Marine, Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act:

Regulates ocean dumping of dredged material

• National Ecosystem Restoration Planning Center of Excellence

• Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act

• Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive

Center

• Allows the Corps to provide reimbursable technical services to other federal agencies as well as to states, local municipalities, international governments, and Native American Tribes

P E O P L E + P AR T N E R SH IP S + P R O G R AM S

4Mississippi Valley Division and Mississippi River Commission

ROCK ISLAND

COL Aaron

Williams

ST. PAUL

COL Eric Swenson

MG Kimberly Peeples Commanding General, MVD

President, MRC

MEMPHIS

COL Brian

Sawser

VICKSBURG

COL

Jeremiah Gipson

NEW ORLEANS

COL Cullen

Jones

ST. LOUIS

COL Andy Pannier

MVD

Dr. Elizabeth Fleming Director of Regional

Business

MVD

Mr. Jim Bodron

Director of Programs

LTC Garrett Dean Deputy Commander, MVD

Secretary, MRC

Hon. James Reeder Civilian

Hon. Riley James Civilian

Hon. Robert Miller, Ph. D.

Civilian

Rear Adm Ben Evans

NOAA

MG Mark C.

Quander, LRD

BG William Hannan, Jr., NWD