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  • June

    Harold Cunningham (Right), construction teacher, and Victor Bright (Second from Right), history teacher, both from Cane Ridge High School, tour a construction site June 6, 2013 where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is building a new resource manager’s office at Cheatham Lake in Ashland City, Tenn. Project Engineer Debbie Dowell and Construction Engineering Technician Victor Young from the Mid Cumberland Construction Office provided the tour for the teachers who are partnering with the Corps in a teacher externship that will help them develop project based learning curriculum. The Nashville District works with schools, teachers and students involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs.

    Nashville teachers graduate STEM curriculum with Corps externships

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 28, 2013) – Local high school teachers are using externships with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to create class curriculum that will challenge students and encourage them to investigate, explore, experiment, problem solve, create and invent.
  • Improvements to Prado Dam outlet works and channel are one of the many projects in the Santa Ana River watershed that have resulted from the coordinated efforts of federal, state and local agencies, along with private organizations and the public.

    Corps, partners move forward with watershed-based budgeting

    Nearly three dozen participants from a variety of federal, state, county and city agencies at the Santa Ana River Watershed-Budget Pilot Year 2 Workshop talk about a change in project management philosophy, in which the Los Angeles District and its Santa Ana River Mainstem partners are playing a leading role.

  • Enjoy your holiday, play it safe, and return home alive

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has recorded six water-related fatalities on its lakes since May 11, 2013. Five drowned, with alcohol use suspected in one death; one died when a vessel ran aground; none were wearing life jackets.
  • Barges along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.

    Corps returns to 24/7 lock operations on McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District will return the operation of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System to 24 hours a day, 7 days per week beginning July 1. Since October 2012, lock maintenance closures have been conducted for four hours daily at the Webbers Fall, Chouteau and Newt Graham lock and dams during which time no vessels have been locked.

  • Safety Tips: Fatalities averted, story shared as warning to others

    Instead of a typical Friday evening, one mother and her two children will fight a deadly attacker that they cannot see, hear, or smell, but which has the ability to kill quickly and efficiently –carbon monoxide.