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  • September

    The White family was relieved to call Carters Lake campground home over the weekend while she and her family rode out Hurricane Irma after being forced out of their southern Georgia homes. The Carters Lake campsite was one of 535 sites at 10 areas sites that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District made available to accommodate Hurricane Irma evacuees.

    Mobile District campsites host thousands displaced by Hurricane Irma

    Tina White’s family was relieved to call Carters Lake campground home over the weekend while she and her family rode out Hurricane Irma after being forced out of their southern Georgia homes.
  • Military equipment is staged at the Port of Beaumont waiting to be transported overseas Sept. 12.

    District works to overcome Harvey’s impacts to Texas’ shipping industry

    The number of ports knocked off line due to the impacts of Hurricane Harvey have improved in part due to the Galveston District navigation staff working around-the-clock surveying channels, modifying existing dredging contracts and implementing emergency contracts to get all 28 projects back to authorized depths and fully functional.
  • Crooksville OH Groundbreaking

    Crooksville OH Groundbreaking

    Huntington District Deputy District Commander Lt. Col. Josh Miller joined city officials at the Village of Crooksville, Ohio, on Sept. 13, 2017, at a groundbreaking ceremony for its water system replacement project. Since January 2013 the Village of Crooksville has experienced 65 waterline breaks due to the aged system built in the 1920s, resulting in millions of gallons of water loss per month and numerous boil water advisories.
  • Twenty Mobile District employees and one representative from the Fish and Wildlife Service pose with District Commander Col. James DeLapp after graduation from the 2017 Leadership Development Program, Sept. 7.

    2017 Leadership Development class graduates

    Twenty Mobile District employees and one representative from the Fish and Wildlife Service graduated from the district’s 2017 Leadership Development Program, or LDP, Sept. 7.
  • Paul Mojonnier, Tennessee Crossroads videographer, interviews Park Ranger Sondra Carmen Sept. 11, 2017 at Dale Hollow Dam in Celina, Tenn., for an upcoming episode in early 2018 for a feature as part of the dam’s 75th anniversary, also in 2018. The program airs on Nashville Public Television. (USACE photo by Steve Crawford)

    Tennessee Crossroads to feature Dale Hollow Dam’s story

    CELINA, Tenn. (Sept. 13, 2017) – Where do you go when you want to learn about the unique and exiting places in Tennessee? Well the Tennessee Crossroads television program of course! And where does the Tennessee Crossroads staff go to learn about sustainable power and endless recreational opportunities? No place other than here at Dale Hollow Dam and Lake!