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  • March

    Water Quality Intensive Surveys

    Water Quality Intensive Surveys

    Christy Stefanides,Thaddaeus Tuggle, and Kamryn Tufts, collected water chemistry samples in the tail waters and inflows of Tappan, R. D. Bailey, Clendening, and Piedmont Lakes.
  • FED Employee shared Olympic triumph

    FED Employee shared Olympic triumph

    Seoul, South Korea—At this year’s winter Olympic games, one of our U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Far
  • Participants explore the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

    Army Corps sparks STEM interest at Intrepid Museum event

    It was a foggy and rainy day outside, but inside the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum things were buzzing for “Kids Week” a series of events conducted during the last week of February 2018. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a maritime history museum at Pier 86 at 46th Street on the West Side of Manhattan, New York City. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II. The ship was decommissioned in 1974 and in 1982 became the foundation of the museum.
  • This property in Sonoma County had a small bridge that burned during the wildfire. The Corps of Engineers was able to find an alternate route to reach the parcel and have the debris removed. (U.S. Army photo by J. Paul Bruton/Released)

    Corps continues to tackle ‘difficult to access’ properties

    The Corps is edging closer to completing cleanup of debris on properties affected by the October 2017 wildfires that swept through Lake, Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma counties. The cleanup efforts are nearly nonstop; however, like leaving the toughest portions of a jigsaw puzzle for last, so goes the cleanup of what the Corps calls ‘difficult to access’ properties.
  • To enhance understanding of the current transformation and relocation, Far East District employees were given a tour of several facilities including the new district's headquarters at U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys, Feb. 8.

    FED employees tour new facility as relocation nears

    Seoul, South Korea – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Far East District’s highly anticipated move