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  • June

    Marie Esten shows participants a core sample during the Underwater Sampling and Survey activity during Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day 2017.

    Children explore engineering and science during annual STEM event

    There is a time of year when the New England District opens its doors to young people providing them
  • Kye Moss of Voith Hydro guides a 249-ton rotor during its installation into hydropower unit two at Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn., June 19, 2017. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is rehabilitating the unit and expects to bring it online in late July after the completion of its assembly and load testing.

    Crew installs 249-ton hydropower rotor at Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (June 19, 2017) – A work crew installed a 249-ton hydropower rotor today at Center Hill Dam, culminating weeks of safety preparations to lift and maneuver the heavy load into position to generate hydroelectricity.
  • Louisville District Water Quality Biologist Jennifer Thomason and Huntington District Water Quality Biologist Thaddeus Tuggle collect field data to determine if the unexplained bloom of Daphnia lumoholtzi affected water quality parameters.

    Biological phenomenon observed at Nolin River Lake

    On January 3, 2017, Deryck Rodgers, manager, Nolin River Lake, Bee Spring, Kentucky, contacted the Louisville District water quality team to report an ongoing biological event unlike anything previously observed at the lake. What originally appeared to be an oil slick turned out to be millions of tiny animals, scientifically categorized as zooplankton.

  • Josh the Otter program teaches pre-K water safety

    Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Nolin River Lake Ranger Danielle Robertson gave a helping hand May 1, teaching young children and their parents about water safety from a different perspective using a character called Josh the Otter.
  • The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate conducted a destruction mission of a WWII-era munition containing mustard agent that was discovered at the Savanna Army Depot in Illinois last year.

    Mustard agent safely destroyed at Savanna

    A World War II-era munition containing mustard agent was safely destroyed at Savanna Army Depot (SVDA) in Illinois May 14.