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    ERDC and Center for Innovation and Engineering Brief Joint Engineer Operations Course

    ERDC Engineering Fellow Lt. Col. Steven D. Hart and the Center for Innovation and Engineering’s Deputy Director Dr. Led Klosky recently conducted an online briefing for the Joint Engineer Operations Course (JEOC).
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    New York District launches a new website

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has launched a refreshed public website on a new, cloud-based system. The system, which is part of a Corps-wide website overhaul, is designed to improve communication with stakeholders by increasing transparency and delivering fast, accessible, relevant information to the public.
  • NORFOLK – Roughly 40 district employees received an inspiring performance from Kate Campbell Stevenson who brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the district’s Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012. Introduced into legislation in 1971, Women’s Equality Day celebrates the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The amendment was certified August 26, 1920.

    Stevenson wows district crowd at women’s event

    Kate Campbell Stevenson brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the districts Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012.

  • Lower Mississippi River would be four feet less mighty without Twin Rivers

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 23, 2012) – The lower Mississippi River would be four feet less mighty today if not for the water storage reservoirs along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and their tributaries that provide a stream of water management benefits.
  • Lt. Col. James A. DeLapp, Nashville District commander, honors Curtis Ferguson, civilian, with a certificate of appreciation and a gold commander’s medallion at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building Sept. 17, 2012. Ferguson heroically pulled two people from the hazardous waters directly downstream of Center Hill Dam after their boat swamped and capsized by the strong current generated by the sluice gates Aug. 16, 2012. Ferguson was joined (left to right) by his wife Meagan Ferguson, Tricia Ferguson, mother, Scott Ferguson, father, and Casey Ferguson, sister. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Quick thinking, experience, teamwork aid in rescue of two below Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. -- Quick-thinking, experience and teamwork of individuals at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Center Hill Dam aided in the rescue of two people Aug. 16, 2012 after their boat capsized while fishing in turbulent tail waters during sluice gate releases.