Work crews remove one of two canal gates for refurbishment at South Mills Lock in North Carolina, Jan. 7, 2020. The Dismal Swamp Canal route on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway has been temporarily closed due to the $525,000 project, which is being managed by Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It’s expected to reopen by the end of March. (U.S. Army photo/Vince Little)

Wilmington District Project Manager Pamela Castens assesses damage at the top of a berm at North Topsail Island in this file photo. Washington (January 13, 2020) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced today work that it will accomplish with Construction account funding provided in Public Law 116-20, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Act, 2019, signed into law June 6, 2019. (USACE photo by Lisa Parker)

Transatlantic Division Logistics Director Todd Hasbrouck (left) shows off the changes being made to the TAD Headquarters in Winchester, Va., to Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, the 54th Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Semonite and USACE Command Sergeant Major Bradley Houston drove 70 miles through the winter mix that enveloped Northern Virginia to visit with the men and women of the Transatlantic Division in Winchester, Va., Jan. 7, 2020.

Flood fighting efforts are taken Sept. 22 to protect completed repair efforts from rising high water along the L-575 Missouri River Levee System where initial breach repairs were being made.

IN THE PHOTO, the Inland Dredging Company’s cutterhead dredge “Integrity,” along with one of its small tugboats, works to dredge the Memphis Harbor/McKellar Lake, which was the last of 10 harbors dredged in the Memphis District during 2019. (USACE photo/Jessica Haas)

The new $59.5 million hangar currently under construction at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., will support the new KC-46A Pegasus, a mid-air refueling tanker set to arrive at the installation in the summer of 2020.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the agency’s Volunteer Clearinghouse website will no longer be operational. All future volunteer opportunities at USACE-managed recreation areas will be posted to only the federal interagency website www.volunteer.gov.

This edition of The Corps Environment (November 2019) highlights how we foster sustainability as a way of life, in support of Environmental Operating Principle #1. Content includes commentary from Col. Isaac Manigault, Commander of U.S. Army Environmental Command, about setting conditions for Army readiness. This edition also highlights a variety of projects and initiatives from across the Army enterprise that are setting conditions for a sustainable future.

“The National Levee Database is a public view into the information that builds understanding of the benefits and potential risks levees pose for the communities in which they exist,” said Eric C. Halpin, P.E., USACE deputy dam and levee safety officer.