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  • March

    The Huntington District hosted the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) for a semi-annual Partnering Meeting. Our partnership has a history dating back to the 1930's when we built 14 dams in the Muskingum Watershed. The MWCD is typically the non-federal sponsor for projects in the watershed and have been resolute partners in our common purpose of reducing risk to lives and property. This is what inspiring relationships is all about.

    Huntington District / MWCD Partnering Meeting

    The Huntington District hosted the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) for a semi-annual Partnering Meeting. Our partnership has a history dating back to the 1930's when we built 14 dams in the Muskingum Watershed. The MWCD is typically the non-federal sponsor for projects in the watershed and have been resolute partners in our common purpose of reducing risk to lives and property. This is what inspiring relationships is all about.
  • Researchers successfully attempted a repaving design that incorporated buried extruded polystyrene (foam insulation boards) to prevent permafrost thaw at the most critical locations on the runway.

    Three ERDC labs come together for success in Thule, Greenland

    Three laboratories of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center -- Cold Regions
  • The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory once again anchored Hanover’s annual Occom Pond Party snow sculpture contest. Leading the CRREL crew (14+ family members) was Associate Technical Director Randy Hill, who created a Hungarian Horntail Dragon. Besides CRREL’s sculpture, there were two other snow sculptures and all three were declared winners. The Occom Pond Party is a family-oriented event during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival.

    CRREL team sculpts dragon at annual Occom Pond Party

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering

  • St. Paul employee part of team searching for Amelia Earhart

    District employee Kenton Spading, rehired annuitant, regulatory, believes he and his team could be in the midst of unraveling the decades-old mystery of what happened to famous aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, who both went missing in 1937.
  • Brig. Gen. Mark Toy (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, and Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, Nashville District commander, speak with Tom Denes, senior vice president of ARCADIS, an engineering company in Hanover, Md., during the First Annual Nashville District Small Business Opportunities Open House at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., March 16, 2017.

    Small businesses get treated at Nashville District’s ‘BOOH’ event

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 16, 2017) – Small businesses were treated to a unique event today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District dubbed “BOOH,” which is not a scary reference to Halloween but is a cute acronym for its first annual Business Opportunities Open House.