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  • March

    The St. Louis Downtown Site (SLDS) is located in an industrial area on the eastern edge of St. Louis, just 300 feet west of the Mississippi River. About 11 miles southeast of the St. Louis Lambert International Airport, SLDS is comprised of approximately 210 acres of land, which includes Mallinckrodt Inc. (formerly Mallinckrodt Chemical Works) and 38 surrounding vicinity properties (VPs).

    Downtown site sets sights on 2029

    Remedy Complete for the St. Louis Downtown Site (SLDS) is on the horizon.
  • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) project manager Mike Kessler explains the soil-sorting process to the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management, Carmelo Melendez, and his associate, Gwen Hooten, at IAAAP in Middleton, Iowa, Sept. 9. Hooten is DOE-LM’s CERCLA/RCRA/FUSRAP team lead. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is the law that governs FUSRAP. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) governs solid-waste and hazardous-waste transportation, treatment, storage and disposal.

    Iowa site nears completion of active remediation

    The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is in the home stretch of active remediation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) site.
  • A palladium bar after being exposed to lasers in a low-energy nuclear reaction experiment at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire. The image shows areas of silicon that were not present before the experiment. The image was taken with a scanning electron microscope at about a 1 µm resolution. The palladium bar was about a centimeter squared in area.

    Revisiting cold fusion possibilities for clean energy

    With global attention becoming increasingly focused on climate change, more and more scientific research is turning to advancements in clean energy. One researcher at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) has set his sights on cold fusion.
  • Col. Mark Himes, Commander, USACE Omaha District, Mr. Michael Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, USACE HQ, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, John Hickenlooper, U.S. Senator for Colorado, Michael Hancock, Denver City Mayor, and Denver city council members at the South Platte River Project funding celebration, Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2022.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District selected to partner in innovative project delivery pilot program

    The South Platte River and Tributaries Project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District was recently selected to participate in a civil works Public-Private Partnership pilot program.
  • A man stands in the foreground with a virtual reality set on his face and holds a controller while standing on a green screen. Several people are in the background watching.

    Technology Management Office: improving USACE partnerships through innovation

    Imagine if you were told that a new software platform could save you 40% of the time you currently spend on administrative tasks at work. What could you do with that extra time? That is the exciting question that many within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers might be asking themselves when a new construction management platform is released to the enterprise. The Technology Management Office, or TMO, a branch of the Construction Management Innovation Office within USACE Headquarters, is working hard to develop and deliver a new construction management platform. The new platform will be designed to foster a more efficient, collaborative working environment by streamlining and modernizing current construction management processes.