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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Wilmington District has contracted for "about $15.5 million" worth of work funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

About $2 million worth of projects awarded in the last week of July include a $97,388 contract awarded to Tetra Tech Inc., an international firm based in California, to develop plans and specs to renovate the Tailrace facilities at Falls Lake, and a $48,491 contract awarded to Joyner Keeny, of Rocky Mount for conducting shoreline stabilization surveys at John H. Kerr Lake.

Tetra Tech Inc. also won a $499,997 contract to study the capacity of dredge material disposal sites in the Intracoastal Waterway, and a contract for $1,294,362 went to Singleton Enterprises of Luthersville, Georgia, to build a sewer system improvement at Philpot Dam and Park in Bassett, Virginia.

The Corps previously announced a variety of projects to be funded by the federal stimulus plan.