https://www.omaha.com/news/military/military-political-leaders-applaud-start-of-million-offutt-levee-improvement/article_67e0b62d-fe56-5014-a374-4482e7b57946.html The construction project that will save Offutt Air Force Base is ready to start. Gov. Pete Ricketts and Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., headlined a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning at Bellevue’s American Heroes Park for a project to raise and widen two levees that protect Offutt as well as the Papillion Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, which services the city of Omaha.