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  • July

    An excavator smooths bedding material May 1 on the slope of a levee in Riverside, California, where the U.S. Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and contractors have started work again for the levee rehabilitation project.

    LA District leads Riverside levee rehabilitation effort

    Local and federal agencies are working together to restore a critical stretch of flood control infrastructure protecting thousands of homes and billions of dollars in property and infrastructure in Riverside. Led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, in partnership with the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the project is rehabilitating damaged portions of the Riverside levees — two parallel levees originally built in the 1950s to channel floodwaters safely through urban areas. Known formally as Riverside Levee 1 (west levee) and Riverside Levee 2 (east levee), the structures are part of the larger Santa Ana River levee system.
  • A semi-paved road winds down a grassy embankment to a pool of water against a concrete structure.

    45 Years Later, the Engineers Who Faced the Volcano Remember

    When a volcano erupts hurling millions of cubic yards of sediment onto the surrounding area and into local rivers, how does a community deal with it, and where does all that sediment go?
  • Airmen from the 109th Airlift Wing Make History, Landing the LC-130 Hercules on Fresh Water Ice for the First Time

    ERDC and the 109th Airlift Wing team up for aviation first

    ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) has performed decades of research and fieldwork establishing that 55 inches of ice is the thickness required to land an LC-130 (a ski-equipped version of the C-130) for both saltwater ice and freshwater ice. Researchers have long thought that a landing on freshwater ice could be done on much less thick of ice.

  • NOLA Terminal, 24-0873

    To perform facility improvements and modification to the existing facility including replacing existing supports for the conveyor crossing the right descending Mississippi River Levee, vicinity of LS 1246+09, adding a rock berm at Ship Dock 1 along the river bank, and to perform modifications to Ship Dock 1 to include redesign of the levee ramp and approach-way crossing the levee, to install support towers with a pipe-pile foundation for the conveyor system on the batture and river bank, and install a firewater intake structure on the river bank at Myrtle Grove, LA, in Plaquemines Parish.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes debris removal from the last FEMA assigned parcel on the Pacific Coast Highway July 8 in Pacific Palisades, California. Under FEMA mission assignment, USACE is leading one of the largest wildfire debris removal operations in California history and supporting safe recovery across Southern California's fire-affected areas.

    USACE completes wildfire debris removal on final parcel along Pacific Coast Highway

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with FEMA, California Office of Emergency Services, Los Angeles County and other local agencies, has completed debris removal on the final FEMA-assigned parcel along the iconic Pacific Coast Highway, as part of ongoing recovery efforts from the 2025 Palisades Fire.