MOBILE, Ala. – Born in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District’s Coastal Resiliency Program has grown from those beginnings to include coastal Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
Formerly known as the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program, MsCIP, the Coastal Resiliency Program has successfully worked with the state of Mississippi to develop comprehensive plans and implementable projects that further aided the Mississippi Gulf Coast with post-Katrina recovery, environmental restoration, and reduction of future damages and loss of life from hurricanes and storm events.
Now, the program is primed to bring those same services and results to an expanded area of operation, adding Alabama and Florida to its area of responsibility…