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    2011 Municipal and Industrial Water Supply Database report cover.

    2011 M&I Water Supply Database Available

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - May 9, 2012.  IWR has published the 2011 M&I Water Supply Database report,
  • Combat engineers of Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, pause for a photo during a tour of Cheatham Lock, Dam, Power Plant and Recreational facilities May 9, 2012 to learn more about the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers “civilian missions.” Lt. Col. Pat Kinsman, commander is at left in front row. (USACE photo by Fred Tucker)

    Fort Campbell combat engineers learn Nashville District’s ‘civilian missions’

    NASHVILLE, TENN. (May 9, 2012) – Combat engineers of Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, adept at mine-clearing, demolition, and construction projects in a combat environment, visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District today to learn more about Corps “civilian missions” as part of their professional development.
  • In all 4,000 volunteers spread out over 15 community sites to remove tons of debris from the river’s channel during the Friends of the LA River’s 23rd Annual La Gran Limpieza: The Great Los Angeles River CleanUp on April 28.

    Los Angeles River: location, location, location

    The area adjacent to Rio de Los Angeles State Park was one of three sites featured for informational talks given by key stakeholders during the Friends of the LA River’s 23rd Annual La Gran Limpieza: The Great Los Angeles River CleanUp on April 28. In all, 4,000 volunteers spread out over 15 community sites to remove tons of debris from the river’s channel.
  • A clamshell dredge begins a five-month project May 2 to remove up to 350,000 cubic yards of material from the federal channel in Newport Harbor, Calif. The Port of Long Beach will use about one-third of the dredged material for its middle harbor redevelopment project.

    Maintenance dredging project will restore federal channels in lower Newport Harbor

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a five-month, $6.5 million maintenance dredging project May 2 when a clamshell dredge started removing up to 350,000 cubic yards of material in an effort to restore safe navigation to federal channels in lower Newport Harbor.
  • IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — Kevin Wohlmut (left), a planner in the Coastal Studies Group for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, discusses Tijuana River watershed issues with district commander Col. Mark Toy during a break at a meeting hosted April 19 by the International Border and Water Commission at the Tijuana River Estuary Visitors Center.

    International Commission takes a look at the Tijuana River

    The meeting assembled nearly two dozen representatives from the Corps, the IBWC, California Water Quality Control Board, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the City of San Diego, the Estuary, and the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission.