Share This week the Corps thanks Charles and Lynn Earnest, who live in River Road Park during the off-season, for their volunteering efforts. They have been providing visitor assistance, promoting public safety, improving security and performing trail maintenance for the past three years and are set to begin their fourth.
The [...]

ShareFrom James Beard of the Clearwater Lake Office:
Volunteers are essential in helping the Corps of Engineers achieve our missions. Each year volunteers step forward and give of their time and talents.
This year alone dozens of volunteers, including local scout groups and individuals alike have provided nearly 400 hours of volunteer service at Clearwater [...]

ShareFrom James Beard, Clearwater Lake Office:
Labor Day may signal the end of the official recreation season, but many beautiful days remain to enjoy your public lands at Clearwater Lake. Lower temperatures and reduced visitation allows visitors to take advantage of many recreational opportunities with a more relaxing approach.
As the year’s recreation season [...]

ShareOne lane of Missouri Highway HH across Clearwater Dam will temporarily close beginning Sept. 10 while routine engineering tests are conducted on the dam. The tests require a drilling rig and other equipment to be positioned on the roadway atop the dam. During the testing period of about a month, traffic over the dam [...]

ShareBy James Beard
The staff at Clearwater Lake invites everyone to come to Clearwater Lake on Saturday, Sept. 25 to help celebrate the 17th annual National Public Lands Day by volunteering some time and effort to help enhance this public resource.
This year’s activity is trail maintenance at River Road Park. This project will involve manual [...]

ShareThe Army Corps of Engineers is hosting its sixth annual mobility impaired deer hunt Nov. 6 and Nov. 7 for non-ambulatory hunters within the Watchable Wildlife Area on the Clearwater Lake Project.
Applications for the managed hunt are now available from the Clearwater Lake Project Office and must be completed and returned by Sept. 24. [...]

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By Bob Brennecke
This story begins at a time just after Clearwater Lake near Piedmont, became an impoundment around 1947. Missouri has many lakes through out the state that are used for flood control and the Black River was dammed to form Clearwater Lake.
I believe this took to place four or five years after the [...]

ShareHmmph! At least that guy from the Army Corps said we are intelligent, even if they want us to go back to eating uncooked minnows and berries, and not potato chips and powdered donuts. It’s not safe to eat raw crawdads anymore…I read that in the newspaper by the picnic table, too. Lock stuff up [...]

Share By James Beard (US Army Corps of Engineers).
PIEDMONT, Mo. – Camping at Clearwater parks can provide a relaxing change of pace for the entire family as well as give you a safe and healthy vacation if you follow these simple safety reminders.
When preparing to venture into the great outdoors for a family campout it [...]

ShareOn May 26, in hard hat and safety vest, Jo was climbing around on a big yellow hydromill atop Clearwater Dam, in the rain. Phase II (the cutoff wall construction) is well underway– a project the Army Corps has undertaken to prevent leakage through the porous rock beneath the earthen dam.
Here are some photos, and [...]