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  • Army Corps awards $1 million contract for work at Tracy defense depot

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a $1.08 million contract June 19 to Bara Infoware Inc. of San Ramon to replace the roof on Building 20 at Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin in Tracy.

  • U.S. Army Europe names USACE built Mission Command Center

    The new Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the newly named Gen. Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany.

  • District keeps projects moving along in Las Vegas area

    LAS VEGAS – It’s been said that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is working on military construction projects in and around the Las Vegas area that will have effects across the country and around the world. One project at Nellis Air Force Base is the addition and renovation at the 422 Test Evaluation Squadron building. “The project will add a 16,000 square feet facility and there will be renovation of 4,000 square feet of the existing building,” said Mark Porterfield, project engineer at the District’s Nellis Resident Office. “Construction began in early June and the project is due in March 2013”

  • District brings “green” power to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

    LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Nellis Resident Office recently completed a solar power project for the Bureau of Land Management at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. “The new photovoltaic system is capable of producing an average of 40 KWAC of electricity,” said Viet Q. Tran, project engineer at the Nellis office. “The calculated full load requirement to support the fire station is 38.6 KW; therefore, this solar system is designed to fully support the full load requirement.”

  • District keeps projects moving along in Las Vegas area

    LAS VEGAS – It’s been said that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is working on military construction projects in and around the Las Vegas area that will have effects across the country and around the world.

  • Corps releases draft master plan for public review Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System

    NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District released the Atchafalaya Basin

  • PA12-38 Corps Seeks Info About Crime at Sutton Lake_

    Sutton Lake, W.Va. – The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking assistance in identifying the individual(s) who damaged the wooden gate at the Downstream Day Use Area outflow training wall, below Sutton Dam. The damage at the downstream area occurred sometime during the night of June 19, 2012

  • Veterans Trail designated as National Recreation Trail

    ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – The U.S. Department of the Interior has designated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Veterans Trail at Coralville Lake, Iowa City, Iowa, as a National Recreation Trail for 2012.

  • Corps of Engineers’ reservoirs rising rapidly, caution urged near water

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, expects reservoirs in northern Minnesota to rise due to the recent rain within the region and advises residents to use caution around the water.

  • Corps of Engineers and Valley City, N.D., to host public meeting on

    St. Paul District, along with Valley City, N.D., will hold a public meeting July 10 to provide background information on and introduce the public to the Valley City Sheyenne River Flood Risk Management Feasibility study.