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  • May

    Wetlands support flood risk reduction

    While wetlands play an important role in providing habitat for a myriad of species and serve as a filter for aquifers, they also play an important role in reducing the impacts of floods.
  • Members from the Pittsburgh District donned their lifejackets and took to the city streets to raise awareness not only for Wear Your Lifejacket to Work Day, May 16, but as a kickoff to National Safe Boating Week, May 17 – 23.

    District takes to street

    Seventeen district member took to the street in an effort to promote water safety and Wear Your Lifejacket to Work Day, May 16.
  • Kwana Anthony, USACE South Atlantic Division Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, keeps some of the Huntsville Center workforce involved during an annual Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Prevention training session in May.

    Engagement key to effective SHARP training

    There is an Army requirement for annual Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Prevention (SHARP) refresher training presented in a face-to-face setting, and from May 12-16, Huntsville Center employees received their SHARP training. However, for instructors conducting the training, it’s not always easy to connect with the audience.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintenance workers Paul Paris (center) and Chad Kepke remove portions of more than 2000 feet of corroding pipes under the gates at Newt Graham lock and dam. They are replacing 45 year old carbon steel pipes with stainless steel hydraulic lines that should last twice as long as the original.

    Newt Graham Lock and Dam 18 pipe replacement

    Tulsa District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers are replacing hydraulic pipes used to control
  • After months of searching, a negative from the archives of the Museum of the Great Plains in Comanche, Okla. was discovered and was used to create drawings needed to rebuild the bandstand on Fort Sill, Okla.

    Story of a missing bandstand

    Nearly a century ago Fort Sill, like most Army installations, had a bandstand for parades and