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  • January

    Fog settles in along the Elizabeth River as cranes offload cargo from a ship docked at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia.

    Wider, Deeper, Safer Effort Clears Critical Milestone; Project Holds Value for the Nation’s Economy, Review Says

    The effort to make the Norfolk Harbor wider, deeper and safer took a significant step forward today as the plan outlining the project’s national economic benefits was approved by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take its next step forward.

  • Area College Students and Recent Grads Invited to Federal Job Fair

    College students and recent graduates in the Hampton Roads area are invited to the Norfolk District’s Federal Careers Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan. 31.
  • Quality Assurance Specialist Mary DeVries discusses debris removal operations in Napa County, CA, with USACE Quality Assurance Supervisor Richard Aguirre. Members from the Bureau of Reclamation are augmenting the USACE quality assurance mission during recovery from devastating wildfires which began in October 2017.

    Who are you going to call?

    The iconic theme song from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters asks the question, "Who you gonna call?" and although the team from the movie may prove best for that fictional situation, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made a call last year for help, it was to another federal partner -- the Bureau of Reclamation.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Critical Public Facilities Project Manager John Schreiner (right) inspects the contractor’s temporary roof repair progress at a medical facility in Puerto Rico. The white roof in the back is a temporary rubber-like membrane applied to the existing flat roof to make it waterproof.

    Critical Public Facility mission evolves as Puerto Rico recovery efforts continue

    In the days following Hurricane Maria’s landfall on the island of Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency assigned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the mission to evaluate critical public facilities, but since then the mission has evolved from evaluation to construction.
  • image - Deb Lewis, an environmental manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, on duty in Santa Rosa, Calif., the site of massively destructive wildfires in October 2018.

    Heart of a volunteer

    Deb Lewis, an environmental manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, recently returned from helping people whose homes were destroyed by October 2017 wildfires in northern California’s Wine Country. Just days before the wildfires, Lewis was in Houston as part of the Corps’ Hurricane Harvey recovery team.