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  • Personnel Spotlight Joey Behr: Engineer and Inventor

    Since the age of 14, Joey Behr has had an interest in hunting. Now, at 24, he holds a patent for a product that enhances a bow hunter's odds of hitting his target and has another patent pending.

  • Prep students shadow Nashville District engineers

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 9, 2012) – Experiencing the “day in the life” of an engineer, two sophomores from Montgomery Bell Academy participated in a shadow program today with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Engineering Branch.

  • 533rd FEST-M praised for performance in Afghanistan

    Members of the 533rd Engineer Detachment, Forward Engineer Support Team-Main were highly praised March 1, 2012 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan by Maj. Gen. Kendall P. Cox, commander of Transatlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  • USACE exceeds construction placement goals for 6 straight months

    The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District-South exceeded its contracting and construction goals for February, the sixth consecutive month of execution success.

  • Corps to continue water releases from Lake Okeechobee

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has announced it will continue releasing water from Lake Okeechobee, sending additional fresh water into the Caloosahatchee Estuary.

  • Corps to hold youth hunt at Clinton Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Clinton Lake, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism and the Kaw Valley Sportsmen Association, will host its Sixth Annual Youth Turkey Hunt at Clinton Lake on April 7, 2012.

  • Access to Clinton Lake park to close for repairs

    Vehicle access to Woodridge Park at Clinton Lake will be blocked from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 12-19 so that Douglas County Public Works can replace two culverts.

  • Army Corps hosts public meeting to discuss Mill Creek South Slough project

    ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - (March 8, 2011) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, invite the public to attend a meeting to discuss the planned maintenance operations of the Mill Creek South Slough Project in Rock Island. The meeting is March 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Milan Community Center, 2701 1st Street E, Milan, Ill.

  • Army Corps to Conduct Public Information Meeting to Discuss ongoing Deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel

    NEW YORK –– The Arthur Kill Channel off of Elizabeth, N.J. and north of Shooter's Island is currently being deepened to allow large ships to safely transit the shipping channel to the New York Container Terminal, Staten Island, N.Y. Some areas of the Arthur Kill Channel contain solid rock that is being broken into smaller pieces to be dredged from the channel floor, using a controlled, safe detonation of explosives placed in the underwater rock.

  • Corps of Engineers recognizes Wilson, N.C., contractor for safe work

    St. Paul District, recently honored a contractor for its safe and accident-free work following the 2011 Souris River flood. St. Paul District Commander Michael Price presented Byrd Brothers Emergency Services, L.L.C., with the 2011 Contractor Superior Safety Performance Award in early March.