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  • July

    $5.2 million added for Central Valley projects

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers appropriations for fiscal year 2015 added $5.2 million for Sacramento District flood risk reduction-related construction and investigations in the Central Valley. This funding is in addition to the $141 million received in February this year.

  • Coveted intern returns to Sacramento District

    Jonathan Whipple is back in town after spending three weeks at the Corps' Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Even though he was more than 2,000 miles away, his focus never left home.
  • From left to right: Jose Sigran, Jafet Aguiler and Alexandria Gunter pose in front a loaner lifejacket stand on Lake Hartwell June 3. Gunter volunteered to swim lifejackets to the boys who were stranded on a buoy after becoming winded attempting to swim back to the shoreline

    Boys’ lives saved by rescuers, loaner life jackets at Hartwell Lake

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – The collaborative efforts of a Hartwell Lake corps ranger and bystander saved two boys’ lives after the pair struggled to swim from a remote buoy to the beach shoreline June 3.
  • 1st Lt. Marcus Farris’ (first row, third from left), quality assurance representative in the USACE – Alaska District’s Construction Division, competed for the first time with the All-Army Triathlon team June 7 in the 2015 U.S. Armed Forces Championships hosted by the Leon’s World Fastest Triathlon at Hammond, Indiana. According to the race results, he finished 17th out of 40 male competitors from all four branches, including members from the Canadian military. Farris completed the Olympic standard triathlon distances of a 1.5 km swim, 40 km bike ride and 10 km run just under two hours. He trailed the leader by nine minutes.

    All-Army triathlete’s skills founded in preparation

    Underneath his quiet and cool demeanor, 1st Lt. Marcus Farris is ready to be unleashed on race days. A disciplined athlete, he has trained for many hours to represent and compete as a member of the All-Army Triathlon team.
  • Wolf Creek pours into Granada from the southwest. Des Marteau Commission Co elevator in the background. Special thanks to the staff at John Martin Reservoir for scanning this historic photo.

    Remembering the 1965 Arkansas River Flood in Southeastern Colorado

    I remember the 1965 flood! In 1965, I was a kid living at Granada, Colorado. This article is part memoir and part summary of events that occurred during the 1965 Arkansas River Flood as documented during and after that flood 50 years ago.