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  • October

    In the 1960s, the Office of Civil Defense, with help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal agencies led an effort to answer this question. But, instead of zombies, the threat was from a potential nuclear disaster. The Civil Defense Fallout Shelter items were on display at the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center at Gavins Point Dam during the 2014 recreation season. Background photo is courtesy of Thierry Ehrmann to copy and redistribute with credit via creativecommons.org 2.0 attribution.

    Where to go in a Zombie Apocalypse? What about a Nuclear Attack?

    Zombies. They’re at your door. Sure, this time it’s just trick or treaters. BUT... What would you do if it were really zombies? Where would you go? What supplies would you need? Where would you use the bathroom? How would you get food or water and where would you sleep? Instead of zombies, think 1960s and the threat? A potential nuclear disaster. Just in time for Halloween, peek into life in a fallout shelter as presented in a display at the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center at Gavins Point Dam during the 2014 recreation season.
  • Four of the water quality monitoring stations feature a raised platform to protect the equipment from high waters.

    Sophisticated network monitors Savannah River estuary

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – Ensuring healthy water quality is an essential part of environmental monitoring for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is partnering with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to monitor water quality in the estuary using a sophisticated network of continuous monitoring stations.
  • Len Iseldyke from D2Team-Sim discusses his firm's capabilities with Crystal Bennett-Echols and Wes Turner of the Installation Support and Programs Management Directorate's Medical Division programs during the center's Small Business Forum Oct. 15 at Jackson Center in Cummings Research Park.

    Small businesses essential to Huntsville Center success

    “The truth is we couldn’t deliver our programs without them – when you get to the actual execution
  • Tim Higgs (Right), chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Planning Branch’s Environmental Section, talks with David Sims, a habitat biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, during a Stones River watershed workshop Oct. 20, 2014 at Patterson Park Community Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The event was sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

    Stakeholders collaborate for good health of Stones River watershed

    MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (Oct. 20, 2014) – Federal, state, local and private interests met at Patterson Park Community Center today to collaborate and work together for a healthier Stones River watershed.
  • Joe Laird chased down the Chief of Engineers' chopper to get this photo with Lt. Gen. Henry Hatch in 1989 as he landed to survey the earthquake damage at Loma Prieta.

    Twenty-five years after the earthquake recovery effort

    The 1989 Earthquake, 25 years ago on this date, October 17, in California brought teams of experts from all across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers footprints, to assist with assessing damage, to quilling nerves, to just being there as a listener, as many lives and homes were devastated on this day.