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  • USACE bolsters European reassurance effort

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District will manage more construction in Eastern and Central Europe this year than it has in the past 40 years combined. Over the next three years, the district will execute up to 145 military construction and facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization projects in Poland, the Baltics and Balkans as part of the $1 billion European Reassurance Initiative to support NATO allies and U.S. partners in the region.

  • USACE Savannah District employee receives top honor

    BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN – Gordon Simmons, currently deployed to Afghanistan with USACE-Transatlantic Afghanistan District (TAA), has been awarded one of the highest honors bestowed within the Corps of Engineers. Simmons, chief of engineering, was presented with the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal Monday.

  • A new lease on life: Realty assistant aids Ebola response efforts in Liberia

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – No stranger to warfare in the jungles of Vietnam and the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, Angel Rivera set out on a familiar task in an unfamiliar territory that bred an enemy just as malignant as those he encountered as a career Soldier.

  • NR 15-020: Corps offers guided tours of Center Hill Dam Power Plant

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (June 2, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is offering the public free guided tours this summer of the Center Hill Dam Power Plant. Approximately one and a half hours in length, the tours are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, July 18 and Aug. 29.

  • USACE Galveston District implements ESRI Operation Dashboard to monitor water levels

    GALVESTON, Texas (June 1, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District implemented the ESRI Operation Dashboard, a geographic information system (GIS) tool, that allows Corps employees, partners and the community to monitor water levels throughout the district’s area of operation along the Texas coast.

  • East Branch hosts tabletop exercise

    East Branch Lake hosted a First Responder and Safety Tabletop Exercise at the East Branch Resident Office, May 6.

  • Volunteers beautify Loyalhanna

    The snow and cold didn’t stop volunteers from participating in Loyalhanna Lake’s celebration of Earth Day at the Bush Recreation Area, April 25.

  • Earth Day celebrated by Tionesta Lake

    Tionesta Lake teamed with the local sheriff’s department, fishing club, and others to clean up Tionesta Lake, April 25.

  • Europe District Engineer Team Returns as Liberia is Ebola-free

    Europe District - Army Corps team returns to Germany following support of U.S. military mission ‘Operation United Assistance’ in West Africa.

  • Nashville District highlights its notable projects leading into National Dam Safety Awareness Day

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 29, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has two notable engineering projects to its credit in recent years to stop seepage through the embankments of Wolf Creek Dam in Jamestown, Ky., and Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn. In conjunction with National Dam Safety Awareness Day May 31, 2015, the district is highlighting the major effort it took to construct concrete barrier walls deep into the foundations of these dams.