HEADQUARTERS

Coastal engineers Doug Wall, left, and Kevin Conner refer to a Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) notebook on Wrightsville Beach during their spot checks of specific sections of the beach. They uploaded data to the District's GIS server to be analyzed for any potential damage. (USACE photo by Hank Heusinkveld)

The White family was relieved to call Carters Lake campground home over the weekend while she and her family rode out Hurricane Irma after being forced out of their southern Georgia homes.

As forecasts tracked Hurricane Harvey’s course toward Houston last week, researchers in Vicksburg, Mississippi were already calculating the flooding impacts from the storm to better inform the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Emergency Operations team.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is leaning forward in partnership with local, state, and federal response in the support of the people affected by the impacts from Hurricane Harvey. We currently have more than 353 personnel engaged and operating in coordination with county, state, and FEMA partners. Our number one priority continues to be life, health, safety of all personnel affected by Hurricane Harvey. USACE is focused on flood mitigation and reservoir operations, temporary emergency power, debris technical assistance, navigation restoration, temporary housing, infrastructure assessments, and commodities technical assistance.