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  • Corps of Engineers issues permit for Navy wharf at Bangor

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit Aug. 21 to the U.S. Navy to construct and operate a second Explosives Handling Wharf (EHW-2) at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in support of its submarine fleet.

  • USACE hunting permits issued at Allatoona Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Allatoona Lake Project Management Office has issued all of its allocated 400 permits for the 2012-2013 hunting season.

  • Middle East District is proud of a successful workforce recruitment summer hire

    The Middle East District’s first experience hiring a recent graduate with a disability proves that talent comes in many forms.

  • Tujunga Wash now open to public

    Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and Los Angeles County cut the ribbon opening the Tujunga Wash Ecosystem Restoration Project in Valley Glen, Calif., to the public Aug. 15.

  • Black Butte Lake staff recognized for youth conservation education

    Black Butte Lake leadership and staff have been recognized for “continually going above and beyond” in supporting local programs that teach youth the value of protecting natural resources.

  • Corps replenishment of Redondo Beach

    The material placed at Redondo Beach is part of a Corps project to remove about one million cubic yards of material from the Marina del Rey entrance channel in order to deepen the channel to its federally-authorized depth and improve safety for mariners and first responders who use the marina.

  • Corps of Engineers, National Carriers take Water Safety message on the road

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with National Carriers Truck Lines, Inc., took their water safety message on the road this month—literally. In an Aug. 15 meeting at the company’s Irving, Texas, facility, Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Kula, commander of the Corps’ Southwestern Division, joined with Mr. Jim Franck, National Carriers, Inc., president, to place a water safety decal on the first of the company’s 600 tractor-trailer trucks that will carry the message nationwide as well as into Canada and Mexico.

  • Barkley hydropower rehabilitation gets a 270-ton lift

    Work crews at Barkley Power Plant removed a 270-ton rotor assembly, Aug. 16, 2012 from a crippled hydropower unit damaged 18 months ago by an electrical fire. The heavy lift enables the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to move forward with the generator's rehabilitation.

  • USACE seeks contractors to build counternarcotics projects in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan

    Recently, representatives from the Middle East District went to two countries in the Central Asian States looking for a few good contractors.

  • On top of the world: Middle East District employee climbs Kilimanjaro

    Jay Wallace, an assistant district counsel, reached that destination earlier this year, climbing 19,341 feet above sea level and fulfilling his dream of summiting the highest mountain in Africa.