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  • February

    Clean Sweep at Dewey Lake

    A group of 275 volunteers gathered at Dewey Lake in Kentucky on March 15, 2014, to take part in the annual “Operation Clean Sweep” event.
  • Sarah Peace, park ranger and natural resource specialist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Center Hill Lake in Lancaster, Tenn., is the Nashville District Employee of the Month for January 2014. Here she is below Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn., Feb. 27, 2014.

    Peace named Nashville District Employee of the Month for January 2014

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2014) – Park Ranger Sarah Peace, a natural resource specialist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Center Hill Lake in Lancaster, Tenn., is the Employee of the Month for January 2014.
  • RED WING, Minn. – Bill Chelmowski, St. Paul District small boat operation and ice survey technician, prepares to drill a hole in the Mississippi River, near Lake City, Minn., Feb. 27, to measure the ice thickness within Lake Pepin. The Corps of Engineers measures the ice thickness every spring and the navigation industry uses the information to determine when to break through the ice and begin the shipping season. Lake Pepin ice is traditionally the last hurdle for the navigation industry to deal with before reaching St. Paul, because the ice is usually a lot thicker in the lake due to the slow moving current.

    Mississippi River ice surveys are a sign of spring

    An airboat, ice auger and a ruler are just a few of the key tools for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, ice survey team.

  • PR14-005 Bolivar Seepage Barrier

    Huntington, W.Va. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District, announces the
  • Jennifer McDowell, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville interior designer, shakes hands with a representative from the furniture vending industry during the Furnishing Program's Centralized Furnishings Industry Day, Feb. 27, in Huntsville, Ala. More than 40 Furnishings Program representatives, including project managers, contracting officials and interior designers, were on hand to answer questions about the program. In FY13, the Furnishings Program furnished 209 administrative buildings and 262 barracks buildings, which included 26,601 barracks spaces, for a program cost of $132 million, with a total cost avoidance of $26 million, or 19 percent of the estimated value of the program.

    Huntsville Center offers industry day for furniture vendors

    So Huntsville Center's Furnishings Program personnel offered more than 200 representatives from the furniture industry an opportunity to learn about the program’s future projects, needs and requirements during a Centralized Furnishings Industry Day, Feb. 27, in Huntsville, Ala.