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  • March

    MARYVILLE, Tenn. — A work crew installs an aqua levee system Feb. 29, 2012 that will act as a makeshift coffer dam to collect and pump our water from Brown Creek and discharge it downstream past Greenbelt Lake. Once the lake is dry the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District will remove sediment as part of an aquatic ecosystem restoration project.

    Corps prepares water diversion at Maryville's Greenbelt Lake

    Work crews began installing aqua levee systems Feb. 29, 2012 on Pistol and Brown Creeks that will act as makeshift coffer dams. Pumps capable of moving up to 6,900 gallons per minute are in place and ready to divert water collected from these streams through pipes around Greenbelt Lake.
  • TRENTON, New Jersey — The Broad Street culvert is part of an environmental restoration project. The Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District has partnered with the city for the project.

    Project Spotlight: Lower Assunpink Creek Ecosystem Restoration

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Philadelphia District and the City of Trenton are working to restore part of the Assunpink Creek ecosystem.
  • ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Children explore a model of a U.S. Coast Guard vessel as they learn about river navigation Feb. 25 during Engineer Week at the St. Louis Science Center.

    Federal partnership brings students closer to Mississippi River, STEM

    Nearly 8,000 children of all ages played in the Mississippi River and learned to navigate the Mighty Miss Feb. 25-26, 2012 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District and the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River participated in Engineer Week at the St. Louis Science Center.
  • Nicole Wayant, a Topographic Engineering Center geographer and mathematician, works with students in their classroom during an earlier ERDC Geographic Information Systems Day.

    ERDC researchers visit school for Engineering Month

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) Mathematician Katlyn Winter and Nicole Wayant, a graduate of the Department of Defense and ERDC Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) program and currently a TEC geographer and mathematician, recently provided a presentation on the inter disciplinary relationships between math and geography for second and sixth graders at Fort Belvoir Elementary School.
  • A carbon nanotube depiction.

    ERDC coordinates STTR proposal, industrial production of super fiber

    ERDC's Advanced Materials Initiative (AMI) program produced a scalable molecular design for a carbon nanotube-based fiber with a maximum ultimate tensile strength of 8.6 million pounds per square inch (psi) (60-GPa), or about 86 times that of high-strength steel.