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    Children of Samaritan Village and their new friends from Yuba City, California, pose for one final shot after construction of new playground equipment at the orphanage near Arusha, Tanzania. The Yuba City team spent two weeks in Tanzania in August 2014, improving orphanage facilities and meeting the kids.

    Gifts and givers -- a Corps engineer in Africa

    He traveled to Tanzania, Africa, on a mission to help improve a home for orphans but returned feeling those children gave him a much greater gift – a lesson in strength, humility and kindness. The recent two-week trip to Tanzania was the second such service trip to Africa for Brian Poole, a supervisory engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District engineering division.
  • U.S. Army Cadet Jacob Woicik, a senior at the University of Wyoming in fall 2014 in the Cowboy Battalion Reserve Officer Training Corps, spent most of July 2014 interning for the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, stationed at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point ─ the oldest continuously-occupied military post in America located 50 miles north of New York City.

    Cadet intern builds skills at Army Corps of Engineers, New York District; describes West Point experience as ‘phenomenal’

    U.S. Army Cadet Jacob Woicik, a senior at the University of Wyoming in fall 2014 in the Cowboy Battalion Reserve Officer Training Corps, spent most of July 2014 interning for the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, stationed at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point ─ the oldest continuously-occupied military post in America located 50 miles north of New York City.
  • In 2010, high Elkhorn River flows caused extensive bank erosion and tree damage just upstream of County Road F and the Elkhorn River Bridge east of Scribner, Neb.

    Corps Section 14 project facilitates Scribner’s promising future

    In the spring of 2010, a major flood from the Elkhorn River caused the left river bank just upstream from County Road F and the Elkhorn River Bridge near Scribner, Neb. to erode back 200 feet and decimated an entire tree line several hundred feet long. The Corps' Section 14 Emergency Streambank and Shoreline Protection project will consist of a series of five spur dikes at various locations along the eroded bank. A construction contract was awarded in August 2014 to Iowa-based Niewohner Construction, Inc. for approximately $289,000. Once notice to proceed is given, the project is expected to take no more than six months to complete.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold its 2015 FNOD quarterly restoration advisory board meeting March 25, 6-8 p.m., at the Courtyard Marriott, located at 8060 Harbour View Boulevard, Suffolk, Virginia.

    FNOD Restoration Advisory Board meets Sept. 4

    Restoration efforts continue at the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot, and community members can learn more about the latest clean-up progress during the project’s quarterly Restoration Advisory Board meeting Sept. 4, from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
  • Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo Ellen Darcy talks with District employees Anthony Heddlesten, Jim Bartek, Roger Less and District Commander Col. Mark Deschenes about the Red Rock Hydroelectric Project.

    Red Rock Hydroelectric Project Gets Underway

    The second-largest hydroelectric plant in Iowa is officially under construction after a ceremonial groundbreaking Aug. 13 at Red Rock Dam near Pella, Iowa. Representatives from the Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) hosted the event to showcase plans for the new facility which is scheduled to be completed in spring 2018.