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  • April

    Trevor Henry, project manager for the City of Flagstaff, foreground right, discusses the Rio de Flag Flood-Risk Management project with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division and Los Angeles District leaders during a tour of the project site April 5 in Flagstaff, Ariz.

    Corps’ leaders meet with partners to discuss completion of Winslow, Flagstaff projects

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division and Los Angeles District leaders visited project sites April 5-7 in northern Arizona, including two that are being fully funded through completion.
  • Lita Trotter and her daughter Alexandria pose for a recent photo together. Trotter said she liked to work on puzzles while listening to good music in her spare time.

    Trotter has proven to be a “perfect fit” for the Mobile District

    In order to put a puzzle together, you must make sure you have all of the pieces and ensure those pieces fit together. If the pieces don’t fit or if you don’t have all the pieces, you will have a very difficult time solving and putting said puzzle together. You will never get to see the complete project, that beautiful picture nor the satisfaction of a solved puzzle.
  • LRD Civil Engineer Jeff Ross, Chief, Light Fleet Jeff Neely, and Wilson Lock Lockmaster Clay Askew evaluate the floor of the main lock chamber of Wilson Lock on April 7, 2022.

    Wilson Lock dewatering provides opportunity for inspection in dry conditions

    FLORENCE, Ala. (April 11, 2022) – Work crews recently drained more than 15 million gallons of water from Wilson Lock to provide maintenance personnel dry conditions to repair and rehabilitate the navigation lock to keep vessels moving up and down the Tennessee River.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees receive a site briefing by a SunPower Corporation contractor before visiting a solar array construction site on Redstone Arsenal in 2017. Projects like the Arsenal’s The 10 MW solar array with a 1-MW storage system undergo reviews by the Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation team before they are submitted to compete for Department of Defense funding.

    Validation team meeting climate change criteria changes

    The ERCIP validation team is opening any Fiscal 2024 projects that don’t have carbon free solutions and updating the projects to fulfill the criteria.
  • In the wild, fertilized eggs would lay in rocky streambeds until they hatched. At the hatchery, eggs and milt are collected from returning adult salmonids and the fertilized eggs are placed in incubation trays and kept in water from the Dworshak reservoir. The hatchery regulates the temperature and flow of water in the trays to keep the eggs healthy and growing at an appropriate rate.

    4 million mouths to feed

    Just below Dworshak Dam, on the shore of the Clearwater River, lies the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery (DNFH). The DNFH raises millions of salmon and steelhead smolts every year to be released into the river and make their way down to the ocean.