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    Project manager, stands at the pulpit at a public meeting.

    Puerto Nuevo Flood Risk Management Project Team participates in Community Meeting

    San Juan, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, Antilles office, Río Puerto Nuevo Flood Risk Management Project team participated in a community meeting March 28.
  • Memphis District Industry Day announcement.

    Memphis District to host Industry Day May 23rd

    Interested in doing business with the Federal Government? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District is hosting an Industry Day on May 23rd, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Renasant Convention Center, 255 North Main Street, Memphis.
  • Park Ranger Steve Acuff, biologist and natural resources specialist at Cheatham Lake, checks a pine seedling March 27, 2023, that he planted in a mature pine canopy near Cheatham Dam in Ashland City, Tennessee. Acuff, who is also an arborist, singlehandedly planted 1,500 of these pine seedlings in hopes that at least 10 percent of them would survive and thrive to keep the forest viable well into the future. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Cheatham Lake biologist tuned into environmental projects

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 4, 2023) – A conservation biologist at Cheatham Lake is very much in tune with the significant environmental projects related to overseeing the conservation, preservation, restoration and use of natural and cultural resources.
  • Rangers and maintenance workers work together to help create beautiful and safe public lands in the Pittsburgh District.

    Pittsburgh District lakes and dams prepare for recreation season

    Park rangers across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District have been preparing for the upcoming recreation season throughout the winter months. "Recreation season provides us a platform to get out and do what we signed up to do. Park rangers love being outdoors and working with the public. This is the time when we can allow our imaginations to run wild by coming up with different interpretive programs and events to connect with the visiting public," Alex Stevenson, northern area park ranger.
  • The Electronics Services Section built and coded the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system, which is currently being put in Nashville District hydropower plants and Detroit District hydropower plant. The control system will allow Corps engineers to operate hydropower plants from within the Nashville District. Electrical Engineer Skylar Holloway, Senior Electronics Mechanic Allen Hay, Hydropower Plant Senior Electronics Engineer Luke Ditto, and ESS Supervisor Richard Reiger show the Remote Terminal Unit simulator the team built and used to conduct testing before making and coding the system currently being installed at the Corps hydropower plants.

    Nashville District Engineers build and install new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (April 3, 2023)— The Nashville District Corps of Engineers installed the first part of a new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system at J. Percy Priest hydropower plant located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is remotely operated from Old Hickory hydropower plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee.