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  • February

    DALE HOLLOW LAKE — Susie Dixon of Livingston, Tenn., looks for the American Bald Eagle during an Eagle Watch Tour Jan. 28, 2012.

    Eagles soar high overhead Dale Hollow Lake bird watchers

    Dale Hollow Lake park rangers assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville district provided several free eagle watch tours to the public to showcase the eagles that make the lake their home every winter.
  • FORT CARSON, Colo. — (From left) Matthew Ellis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District; Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson, commanding general, 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson; Col. Robert F. McLaughlin, garrison commander; and Monte Larsen, chief operations officer of the Native American Services Corp; scoop the ceremonial first shovel of dirt at the Jan. 27, 2012 groundbreaking of the Mission Command Training Center.

    Construction begins on new training center at Fort Carson

    Fort Carson leaders and representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Native American Services Corp shoveled the first scoop of dirt in a Jan. 27 ceremonial groundbreaking event, signifying the start of construction of the Mission Command Training Center.
  • The Container Ship, Regina Maersk, pushed through the Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina.

    USACE IWR Begins Port and Inland Waterways Modernization Study

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - February 2, 2012. USACE Headquarters (HQ) and the Institute for Water
  • CALIFORNIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District repaired a 2,000-foot stretch of slumping levee separating highway 80 from the Yolo Bypass, adding a gravel drain to help eliminate moisture that was weakening the levee's foundation. The levee has been seeded and will be monitored until grasses, planted to help prevent erosion, begin to fill in. The repair work was completed as part of the West Sacramento Project, a joint effort with the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency and the Central Valley Flood Protection Board to improve the levees surrounding West Sacramento.

    Corps of Engineers completes Yolo Bypass levee repairs

    USACE began necessary repairs on 2,000 feet of levee in July 2011 to restore its full flood risk reduction capability. After excavating the landside of the levee, construction crews installed a gravel drainage system in the toe, or bottom, of the levee, replacing the compacted soil before rebuilding the levee.
  • LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Damon Wolfe (lower right), geodesist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, leads pre-operation checks on the NOVA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in advance of a flight here, Nov. 29, 2011, with help from Victor Wilhelm, Brandon Evers, and Mike Hensch. The NOVA was flown multiple times to take pictures from above the lake that will help USACE biologists track various plant species.

    Jacksonville District's NOVA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle program soars

    The NOVA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers USACE a low-cost method of obtaining pictures from the air for a wide variety of applications. In addition to the levee monitoring, the NOVA has also been used for wildlife surveys, regulatory permit reconnaissance, invasive species contract assessments and invasive species acreage estimation.