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  • August

    Hurricane Sandy Coastal Management Division opens

    FORT HAMILTON, NY - Staff members from the Hurricane Sandy Coastal Management Division joined Vincent Grewatz, regional business director, Joe Forcina, chief of Hurricane Sandy CMD, and Brig. Gen. Kent Savre, commanding general of the North Atlantic Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers July 30 to cut a ribbon signifying the opening of the Hurricane Sandy CMD's headquarters in Building 130 here.
  • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- An aerial view shows the beach renourishment area near 25th and 26th streets at the Oceanfront Jan. 10, 2013. The beach was 50- to 280-feet wide and dredged sand increased the beach to as much as 300 feet, with a minimum elevation of 8.5 feet. The work was part of the Virginia Beach Hurricane Protection and Beach Renourishment Project, which replenished 1,440,250 cubic yards of sand between 15th and 70th streets.

    Big Beach renourishment complete

    Contractors smoothed out the last of the sand on the Virginia Beach, Va., beachfront Aug. 1, completing a beach renourishment cycle that widened the buffer between punishing storm surge and the city’s homes, businesses and tourist attractions.
  • Portugués Dam (looking upstream) now fills the river valley as it nears completion near Ponce, Puerto Rico. Construction is expected to wrap up by the end of the year, with operational testing taking place for most of 2014.

    Portugués Dam nears completion

    Despite the threat from Tropical Storm Chantal, more than 30 residents from Ponce, Puerto Rico and surrounding areas attended a meeting July 9 to learn more about Jacksonville District’s Portugués Dam, which is nearing completion after several years of design and construction.
  • A view of operations at Port Everglades, where Jacksonville District is conducting a study to address the potential widening of the entrance channel and deepening of the navigation channel from its current 42 feet to a depth of 48 feet.

    Port studies reach critical milestones

    Two major milestones have been met, with the release of the draft tentatively selected plan for the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Study and the Port Everglades Feasibility Study.
  • A Balloon Mapping Kit is launched. Information taken by balloon is one way in which scientists collect imagery information for geospatial crowdsourcing.

    TEC and George Mason study geospatial crowdsourcing

    ALEXANDRIA, Va.—ERDC Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) Doug Caldwell and researchers from