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  • August

    A view of operations at Port Everglades, where Jacksonville District is conducting a study to address the potential widening of the entrance channel and deepening of the navigation channel from its current 42 feet to a depth of 48 feet.

    Port studies reach critical milestones

    Two major milestones have been met, with the release of the draft tentatively selected plan for the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Study and the Port Everglades Feasibility Study.
  • A Balloon Mapping Kit is launched. Information taken by balloon is one way in which scientists collect imagery information for geospatial crowdsourcing.

    TEC and George Mason study geospatial crowdsourcing

    ALEXANDRIA, Va.—ERDC Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) Doug Caldwell and researchers from
  • “We’ve got to create more jobs today, doing what you’re doing right here at JAXPORT, and that’s building this country’s future,” said President Barack Obama in his July 25 address to a capacity crowd at JAXPORT.

    Obama stresses importance of ports during visit to Jacksonville

    Addressing a standing-room-only audience at JAXPORT July 25, President Barack Obama stressed the importance of maintaining the nation’s ports and aging infrastructure. Hundreds gathered to hear Obama’s plan for moving the economy forward, starting with passing legislation to authorize two local port projects that would put people back to work in Jacksonville. “In a couple of years, new supertankers are going to start coming through the Panama Canal,” said Obama. “We want those supertankers to come here, to Jacksonville.”
  • During the first two weeks of Baker-Torch training, members of the Thailand Border Patrol Police were taught the fundamentals of Marine Corps marksmanship. Staff Sgt. Jose R. Macoto checks the grouping during a live-fire excercise at the range.

    Corps completes Infantry Platoon Battle Course

    The Corps recently completed a sprawling 500-acre Automated Infantry Platoon Battle Course (IPBC) at
  • Harmful algal blooms at J. Edward Roush Lake in Huntington, Ind., summer 2013.

    Harmful algal blooms cause concern at Corps lakes

    The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is cautioning boaters and swimmers at several district lakes about