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  • March

    Law enforcement units work to secure the hijacked barge from Ingram Barge Company during a mass casualty exercise in Nashville, Tenn., March 28, 2012. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Nashville District joins Homeland Security in ‘Titans’ emergency preparedness exercise

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 28, 2012) – Local, state, and federal emergency management agency’s swarmed LP Field today to participate in a simulated mass casualty exercise involving a Titans football game scenario.
  • Lake Barkley Park Rangers Dylon Anderson (left) and Cody Britton (right) handout water safety promotional items to the public at a local community parade, Aug. 26, 2011.

    Lakes gain merit for significant water safety programs

    Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lakes were nationally and internationally recognized recently for their staffs' creative and resourceful efforts to increase public safety during the 2011 recreation season.

  • TEC meteorologist helps Boy Scouts earn Weather Merit Badge

    So far this year, winter weather-like conditions in the Alexandria area have been minimal compared to the back-to-back blizzards the area experienced last year. At that time, cars clogged the streets in foot-high snow.
  • ERDC-CRREL Director Dr. Robert Davis and ERDC Commander Col. Kevin Wilson. Davis received the Bronze Order of the de Fleury medal.

    ERDC leaders honored with de Fleury medals

    ERDC Director Dr. Jeff Holland was awarded the Silver Order of the de Fleury medal and ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) Director Dr. William Martin and ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Director Dr. Robert Davis were awarded the Bronze Order of the de Fleury during a recent ceremony presented by Commander Col. Kevin Wilson in Vicksburg, Miss.
  • Jeremy Beasley, ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, works with the Electronic Railroad Inspection Database System hardware.

    ERDC leads effort to digitalize Army Railroad Inspection Program

    ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) researchers are leading the Army Railroad Inspection Program into the future through the development of the Electronic Railroad Inspection Database System (ERIDS).