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  • May

    Project Manager Tim Brown measures and surveys portions of the collapsed Duviver Bridge during the Corps’ visit to Haiti in April.

    Corps team solves mystery of collapsed bridge in Haiti

    Rumors of prominent Haitian families at odds with intent to sabotage, to thieves who steal nuts and bolts to sell for money, and other stories of intrigue gripped the island as locals tried to piece together what caused a notable bridge to collapse in March.
  • The Huntington District’s Public Affairs Office conducted media relations training for 30 members of the Huntington workforce at Beech Fork Lake. The facilitator was Dr. Joseph Trahan III of Trahan and Associates. This training improves the district's team members understanding of communication techniques and increases their confidence when telling the district’s story through the media. Each day long course focused on developing effective messages, techniques in answering tough questions, techniques to prepare for media engagements, effectively dealing with reporters and how to conduct on camera interviews. The training included two on camera experiences. The techniques taught in dealing with the media are transferrable to speaking to stakeholders and the general public. A second iteration of media training is scheduled for 28-29 June 2016.

    Media Relations Training

    The Huntington District’s Public Affairs Office conducted media relations training for 30 members of the Huntington workforce at Beech Fork Lake. The facilitator was Dr. Joseph Trahan III of Trahan and Associates. This training improves the district's team members understanding of communication techniques and increases their confidence when telling the district’s story through the media.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District Commander Col. Bernard Lindstrom, gives the keynote address during Dynamic Networking for Small Business Event 2016 April, 27.

    Pittsburgh District Makes BIG Progress with Small Business

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District partnered with regional government agencies to facilitate the I-79 Development Councils Dynamic Networking for Small Business event in Fairmont, W.Va. April, 27.
  • Front page of the San Francisco Chronicle following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

    Readiness chief is well prepared for the next quake

    Duke Roberts is chief of readiness for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District. His job is to make sure his agency is prepared to respond to natural disasters including the kind never far from the minds of San Franciscans: earthquakes.

  • BG Kaiser’s Response to Ohio EPA’s Lake Erie Sediment Concerns

    On Saturday, April 30, 2016, The Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article written by Mr. James F. McCarty titled “Cleveland’s water supply at risk as toxic blob creeps across Lake Erie, Ohio EPA says.” The US Army Corps of Engineers is fully committed to working with the Ohio EPA and other State and Federal agencies to ensure that headline never becomes a reality.