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  • May

    2017 West Virginia Strawberry Festival Grand Feature Parade

    On Saturday May 20, 2017 Bobber the Water Safety Dog attended the 2017 West Virginia Strawberry Festival Grand Feature Parade in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
  • The beaches at Willoughby Spit, East Ocean View and Ocean View have been widened to provide additional protection to city of Norfolk neighborhoods from wave damage during coastal storms. Crews finished up pumping sand onto the beach from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay on May 19, 2017. The beaches are no 60 feet wide and slope up to 5 feet above mean low water.

    Willoughby and Vicinity Project Coming to a Close

    Crews are finishing up work along the Willoughby and Vicinity Storm Damage Reduction Project. The result of the project leaves Norfolk with a beach that is higher and 60 feet wider improving coastal storm protection and providing more recreational area.
  • MG Jackson, USACE Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, visited Bluestone Dam to learn more about its operations and the ongoing Dam Safety Assurance (DSA) Mega Project.

    USACE Deputy Commanding General visits Bluestone Dam

    MG Jackson, USACE Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, visited Bluestone Dam to learn more about its operations and the ongoing Dam Safety Assurance (DSA) Mega Project.
  • The Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) Meeting No. 83 occurred in the Huntington District area of operations. This meeting included a field tour on 16 May 2017 of Greenup and Winfield Locks and Dam on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The IWUB is an industry Federal advisory committee established by Section 302 of Public Law 99-662. The eleven member Board represents all geographic areas on the fuel-taxed inland waterways system of the United States.

    Inland Waterways Users Board Meeting Number 83

    The Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) Meeting No. 83 occurred in the Huntington District area of operations. This meeting included a field tour on 16 May 2017 of Greenup and Winfield Locks and Dam on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The IWUB is an industry Federal advisory committee established by Section 302 of Public Law 99-662. The eleven member Board represents all geographic areas on the fuel-taxed inland waterways system of the United States.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Hutnsville engineer Chad Braun stands in the grouting gallery 270 feet below the crest of the Mosul Dam in Northern Iraq in this undated photo. Braun is one of more than a dozen USACE team members designated the Mosul Dam Task Force as an element of the Army Corps’s Transatlantic Division.

    Huntsville Center’s Braun works to save Mosul Dam

    He’s a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a history of stepping up to lend a hand after American communities face the worst. Now Chad Braun, a civilian civil engineer and senior project engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is deployed thousands of miles from home to engage in a fight to prevent the worst from happening.