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  • June

    Pre-Award Team named best contracting team in Army Corps of Engineers

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2021 Excellence in Contracting Awards Program recognized the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Pre-Award Division with the Team of the Year Award.
  • Art Denkmann retires from volunteering as a gauge reader for the St. Louis District during a ceremony on the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Mo.

    An end to an era: River gage reader changes Mississippi River gage

    There is an end to an era of manual data collection. After nine decades of River Gage Readers, and Art Denkmann serving three of these decades, it now comes to an end.   Just a few years shy of being a century old, the collection of data by gage reader observations on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo., comes to an end. This river gage has been in place since March of 1933. Throughout the years tourists, locals, and navigation interests have passed by this river front gage which now has been officially replaced with a Data Collection Platform system. 
  • ERDC Alumni Association President Julie Marcy and ERDC Commander Col. Teresa Schlosser are pictured with five recent high-school graduates, Saatvik Agrawal, Benjamin Talbot, Scott Wallace, Anna Lamanilao and Alana Latorre, who were awarded scholarships from the Alumni Association.

    ERDC Alumni Association awards five scholarships

    Five recent high-school graduates were awarded scholarships last week from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Alumni Association.
  • Congratulations to Memphis District project delivery team members for their recent work and efforts towards rehabilitating 128 existing relief wells just south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The contract was awarded to Kinder Brothers Excavating, Inc. on Sept. 16, 2020, for $1,547,550.

    Substantial completion of Nash Relief Well Rehabilitation

    Congratulations to Memphis District project delivery team members for their recent work to rehabilitate 128 existing relief wells just south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
  • Fleming retires with nearly 50 years government service

    Fleming retires with nearly 50 years government service

    Gene Fleming, the longtime chief of the Environmental and Cultural Resources Section, retired yesterday with nearly 50 years of government service.