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  • May

    Ashland City Elementary School students wear their life jackets as part of the "2018 Summer Pledge to Practice Water Safety" in Ashland City, Tenn., May 10, 2018. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District park rangers at Cheatham Lake engages students on the importance of water safety to culminate the "2018 Summer Pledge to Practice Water Safety." (Photo by Chip Roney)

    Ashland City Elementary School students pledge to practice water safety

    ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (May 10, 2018) – Cheatham Lake Park Rangers celebrated the culmination of the “2018 Summer Pledge to Practice Water Safety” partnership today at Ashland City Elementary School, engaging students on the importance of water safety, learning to swim, swimming with a buddy, and how to pick the correct size life jacket.
  • 5th Annual Huntington Small Business Conference

    5th Annual Huntington Small Business Conference

    The Huntington Post of the Society of American Military Engineers, in conjunction with the Huntington District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held the 5th Annual Huntington Small Business Conference at the Big Sandy Superstore Civic Arena in Huntington, W.Va. on May 10, 2018. The conference is designed to allow contractor's to set up displays to highlight their firm's capabilities in order to provide networking opportunities with other firms, both large and small. The event drew more than 120 people from over 70 firms.
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    Corps employees use ingenuity to collect debris, trash on Lake Cumberland

    SOMERSET, KY (May 9, 2018) – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees from the Nashville District have engineered a solution to help improve and maintain access at a sometimes debris-clogged Waitsboro recreation and boat launch area.
  • Truman Lake is the largest flood control reservoir in Missouri, with a storage capacity of more than 5 million acre-feet - an acre-foot equals 325,000 gallons. At normal pool, the Lake has a surface area of about 55,600 acres – this surface area can grow to over 200,000 acres at the top of the flood control pool. During periods of flooding, Truman Lake, operating in conjunction with other reservoirs, helps protect the lower Osage, Missouri and Mississippi River floodplains.

    Truman Lake provides many opportunities to central Missouri

    The staff at Harry S. Truman Dam and Lake work together to manage the project in accordance with the
  • Far East District Key Resolve 2018

    Far East District participates in Key Resolve 2018

    SEOUL, South Korea – The United States Army, Corps of Engineers, Far East District (FED)