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  • October

    Donnie Kinard (second from left), chief of the Regulatory Division and Tori White (third from left), deputy chief, chat with attendees during a break at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Open House July 11.

    Regulatory takes its show on the road

    For the first time in four years, Regulatory Division traveled Jacksonville District’s territory, from the Florida Panhandle to the Antilles, to offer a full day of information to stakeholders, partners, consultants and the public.
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    Harbor channel maintenance benefits navigation and island treasures

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District awarded a $13.4 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill., to perform maintenance dredging of the Tampa Harbor Egmont and Mullet Key channel cuts. The project will beneficially place dredged sand and install geotextile tubes on Egmont Key to help stabilize the beach and protect historic structures.
  • Sindulfo Castillo (right), chief of the Antilles Regulatory Section, watches as members of a standing-room-only crowd await their turn to speak at Regulatory Division's Sept. 25 public meeting to discuss the Coral World Ocean park permit application.

    Impassioned community packs Regulatory public meeting

    More than 250 people – some carrying signs and posters; some wearing shirts expressing their opinions; all of them fervently in favor of or opposed to the project – packed the Charles Turnbull Regional Library well beyond its capacity.

  • September

    Capt. Adam Z. McGinnis, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s deputy area engineer for the Arizona-Nevada Area Office, speaks with a group of students from Phoenix area schools during a Science Technology Education and Math event held Sept. 25 at the Phoenix Convention Center by Ten80 Education. The event was one of ten expositions Ten80 held across the country in 2014 where students actively engage in workshops, demonstrations and a one-day points race for pride and prizes and both students and teachers could evaluate the National STEM League curriculum, collaborative network and optional competition league.

    USACE participates in Phoenix STEM event

    Capt. Adam Z. McGinnis, the deputy area engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Arizona-Nevada Area Office, and 1st Lt. Luke Ritz, a project engineer at the District’s Fort Huachuca Resident Office, participated in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math event held Sept. 25 at the Phoenix Convention Center by Ten80 Education, a national program aimed at cultivating STEM skills in youth.
  • Fran Firouzi, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, discusses the next phase of cleaning up properties which were formerly part of the Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range at a Sept. 9 public meeting in Kingman, Ariz. The District is planning to conduct a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study for the areas surrounding the properties which were cleaned up during the previous remediation phase to determine if any FUDS-related contaminants are present at those properties.

    Corps holds meeting in Kingman on FUDS project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District held a public meeting Sept. 9 in Kingman to discuss the next phase of cleaning up properties which were formerly part of the Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range. Firouzi and other District representatives present at the public meeting said the work should be completed within the next two years.