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    A Stepping Stone to the Top

    With their eyes on the future, summer rangers in the Three Rivers Region of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers’ Fort Worth District came together at the start of summer for a regional training program. The program is designed to start them on a path that could see them becoming full-fledged rangers or maybe something even greater. From rangers and lake managers to the deputy district engineer for programs and project management, former summer rangers from the region are filling critical roles within the district and elsewhere. Some of the rangers are just looking for a summer job and some are looking to get experience in their career field. For others, it has been a dream since they were young.
  • Meadville Mayor Jaime Kinder gives a speech during Woodcock Creek Lake’s golden jubilee celebration in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, July 14, 2023. Community leaders and Corps of Engineers employees gathered on a summer morning to celebrate Woodcock Creek Dam’s 50th anniversary. The corps built Woodcock Creek Dam to reduce floods along the French Creek, saving communities such as Saegertown and Meadville from catastrophic flooding year after year and has prevented more than $38 million in flood damages since its construction in 1973. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Andrew Byrne)

    Woodcock Creek Lake celebrates Golden Jubilee

    “We lived with floods, pretty much every year.” That was the reality for Saegertown Borough Manager Charles Lawrence and many others living in the wake of the frequently flooding French Creek before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District built Woodcock Creek Lake Dam.
  • A scientist at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland uses a supercomputer for mathematical simulations instead of mass fabrication, which result in the conservation of human and physical resources. For more than a decade the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) has maintained acquisition and contract management of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program. However, changes to the program are underway to turn over the program to the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), Vicksburg Miss., contracting activity as early as September.

    High performance computing program acquisition services moving to Engineer Research Development Center

    Changes to the program are underway to turn over the program to the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC) contracting activity, Vicksburg, Miss., as early as September.
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    Historic agreement creates river sand management partnership

    Members from the city of Wabasha, Minnesota, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, gathered at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha to sign a historic partnership agreement July 24.