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    John Schnebelen, safety technician at the Wolf Creek Resident Engineer Office, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Employee of the Month for August 2012. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Nashville District names its employee of the month for August 2012

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 24, 2012) - John Schnebelen, safety technician at Wolf Creek Dam’s Resident Engineer Office, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for August 2012.
  • ERDC Environmental Laboratory Research Fisheries Biologist Dr. Jan Hoover (right), shows Conservationist Theodore Roosevelt IV, a paddlefish. (Photo by Jack Killgore, ERDC-EL)

    EL Fish Biologists Provide River Tour for Prominent Conservationist

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Fish Ecology Team recently conducted fishery demonstrations and a tour of the Mississippi River for Theodore Roosevelt IV, a prominent conservationist who is the great-grandson of the 26th president of the United States, “Rough Rider” and naturalist, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, and guests.

  • Big plans await Virginia Beach’s Lynnhaven Inlet

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – In a continuing effort to reduce annual costs associated with maintaining federal navigation channels in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a federal interest determination study at the entrance of the Lynnhaven Inlet. The federal study will determine if jetties or a combination of coastal structures is cost-effective in reducing critical shoaling and annual costs of maintaining the navigation channel, as well as reducing damages incurred on structures in the channel due to continuous wave action.
  • Record low water levels at Hugo Lake have left the boat ramps high and dry. This shot of the Salt Creek boat ramp was taken Oct. 18, 2012.

    Hugo Lake sets, then breaks record low

    On October 11, 2012, Hugo Lake hit a record low level of 398.45. The previous low lake elevation of 398.46 was recorded in November 1978. The new record low didn’t last 34 years. In fact, it was broken on midnight, Oct. 14, when the elevation reached 398.36.
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    CRREL debuts work on WorldIndex transportation program at PCASE meeting

    An ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) researcher recently presented work on CRREL’s WorldIndex database during the Pavement-Transportation Computer Assisted Structural Engineering (PCASE) Executive Committee Meeting in Atlanta, Ga.