• Quick to Provide Regulatory Assistance!

    The largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history burned through predominantly inaccessible wilderness from May to July in southern New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, leaving extensive environmental damage that will affect several small, remote communities for years. It was dubbed the “Whitewater-Baldy” Fire.
  • District, UNM Use Physical Modeling to Improve Jemez Weir

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers uses models to reduce uncertainty and to help ensure a structure’s performance will be up to par.
  • Why do we have locks and dams?

    The Mississippi has long been used for transportation; however, navigation has been forced to accommodate its whims; deep-flowing but turbulent in times of flooding; placid but shallow to the point of non-navigability in times of drought. Other obstacles included swift and treacherous rapids, submerged rocks and boulders and uncharted sand bars and tree snags, which ended the life of many steamers in the nineteenth century.
  • Hurricane Isaac News Release

     The Army Corps of Engineers wishes to express its deepest sympathies to all citizens suffering
  • Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District: Hurricane Isaac Update

      Wrap-Up for Friday, August 31, 2012 NEW ORLEANS, LA – The Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District
  • Firewood Ban

    Beginning Aug. 31, 2012, visitors can not transport firwood to Perry Lake that did not originate from Jefferson County, Kan.
  • ERDC Participates in Joint Logistics Exercise

    Dr. Jimmy Fowler from CHL and Dr. Joseph Padula from GSL recently traveled to the U.S. Army Joint Expeditionary Base, Fort Story, Va., to participate in the Joint Logistics Over the Shore 2012, an annual joint exercise sponsored by the U.S. Transportation Command.
  • CERL Researcher Garners First Place AEESP Award

    ERDC Construction Research Laboratory (CERL) Physicist/Environmental Engineer Andrew Nelson was recently notified that his master’s thesis, "Bench-Scale Evaluation of an Energy Efficient Acoustic Aerosol Purification Device with a Newly Designed Bioaerosol Testing and Evaluation Chamber," was selected for the first-place award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).
  • TEC Researcher’s Detection of Explosives in Plants Published

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) research was recently published online in the journal Plant and Soil, "Distinguishing Natural from Anthropogenic Stress in Plants: Physiology, Fluorescence and Hyperspectral Reflectance."
  • Commentary: Don't stop practicing water safety on Corps lakes

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 31, 2012) – As we enter the Labor Day weekend and the remaining few weeks of the Summer recreation season, I want to again emphasize the extreme importance of “Water Safety” to continue reducing fatalities on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s 10 lakes.