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  • July

    The Essayons performed a dredging mission for the Corps’s Alaska District from May 12 through June 18 in the Cook Inlet Navigation Channel. The crew dredged 2.8 million cubic yards of sand in 35 days.

    Army Corps of Engineers deepens vital navigational channel

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Fuel shortages and empty store shelves are a potential reality Alaskans will not have to face thanks to the work of 45 crewmembers aboard the Essayons, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-owned-and-operated hopper dredge.
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Employees and family members cheer on the Albuquerque Isotopes to a 10-9 win June 24, 2013. Fifty-four District members and their families joined District Commander Lt. Col. Gant and her family for a fun night at the baseball game.

    Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

    On Monday, June 24, 2013, 54 District members and their families joined District Commander Lt.
  • Progress being made on the Clinic Addition project.

    Army Corps improves patient care at West Point hospital

    Today the Keller Army Community Hospital continues to carry on Dr. William Lordan Keller's commitment to patient care. To help it do this they called upon the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District to construct an addition to the hospital that will provide needed outpatient medical services for its Cadets. "The new addition will provide the patient beneficiaries with world class healthcare. West Point will have a hospital environment comparable to the very best private sector facilities," said Program Manager Maj. Christopher Kiss, U.S. Army Health Facility Planning Agency.

  • Two-year hardened installation effort ends on a high note

    The conclusion of a two-year effort addressing capability gaps in ensuring survivability of
  • A composting toilet is installed at Camp Atterbury, Ind. between training ranges 18 and 19.

    Composting toilets demonstrated at Camp Atterbury

    Under the Installation Technology Transition Program, a commercially available composting toilet was