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  • April

    On April 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joins our global community in the celebration of Earth Day. The theme for Earth Day 2023 is "Invest in Our Planet."

    Investing in Our Planet: Earth Day 2023

    On April 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) joins our global community in the celebration of Earth Day. Protecting and preserving our environment is an enduring mission for USACE.
  • Salvage crews perform lightering operation

    Salvage operations continue following barge accident

    Salvage Operations continue following a barge accident, which occurred March 28 at McAlpine Locks
  • Alex Guzman, a member of the fence maintenance crew with the LA District’s Operations and Maintenance Branch, negotiates a series of maneuvers to demonstrate his proficiency with a utility terrain vehicle March 23 during training at the Whittier Narrows Dam area of operations in Pico Rivera, California.

    LA District maintenance team members take on UTV training

    LA District Park Ranger Nicolas Figueroa led a daylong operations and safety training course on utility terrain vehicles to members of the district’s Operations and Maintenance Branch March 23 at the Whittier Narrows Dam area of operations in Pico Rivera, California.
  • Engineering students from the University of Louisville visit the site of the Louisville VA Medical Center April 13, 2023.

    Engineering students visit LOUVAMC construction site

    Louisville, Ky. – Engineering students from the University of Louisville had the opportunity to visit the site of the new Louisville VA Medical Center where they were given an overview of the project as well as a site tour April 13.
  • Steve Fritz, the Mega Projects program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, briefs members of the Inland Waterways Users Board while on a tour of the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 at Charleroi, Pennsylvania, April 12, 2023. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District hosted the tour and several briefings about ongoing and future inland navigation construction projects within the district. During the tour, Inland Waterways User Board (IWUB) members learned about the overall Lower Monongahela River navigation project and the new river chamber construction at Charleroi, which is in its final phase after nearly 20 years of construction. Members also listened to briefings about the overall Upper Ohio navigation project and its first major construction contract, the new Montgomery lock construction. IWUB is an industry federal-advisory committee representing all fuel-taxed inland waterway systems within the United States. The navigation industry contributes to the Inland Waterways Trust Fund through fuel taxes paid by carriers who transport bulk commodities on the inland waterway system. The board makes recommendations to Congress and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works on how best to invest federal and trust funds dollars to keep the most cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and safest form of transportation for bulk commodities resilient and reliable. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Michel Sauret)

    Leaders in riverway commercial traffic visit Mega Project construction in Pittsburgh

    Industry experts, inland navigation stakeholders, government officials and more stepped off the bus and walked over to a welcome station where they donned life jackets and hard hats. Most members, stakeholders, and government officials already knew one another, but some shook hands as leaders in the shipping industry introduced themselves to federal employees and military officers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.