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  • Army Corps awards $39 million for Camp Roberts satellite facility

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a $39 million contract Sept. 3 to Watts Constructors LLC of Honolulu, Hawaii, to build satellite communication facilities at Camp Roberts, near Paso Robles.

  • Gifts and givers -- a Corps engineer in Africa

    He traveled to Tanzania, Africa, on a mission to help improve a home for orphans but returned feeling those children gave him a much greater gift – a lesson in strength, humility and kindness. The recent two-week trip to Tanzania was the second such service trip to Africa for Brian Poole, a supervisory engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District engineering division.

  • Army Corps encourages water safety for Labor Day weekend

    The upcoming holiday weekend is one of the year’s busiest times at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parks and lakes, and usually sees an increase in accidents on the water. To help keep visitors safe, Corps park rangers offer the following water safety tips.

  • Army Corps awards $4.5 million for Hill Air Force Base runway repairs

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a $4.5 million contract Aug. 26 to Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville to repair a section of runway at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah.

  • Army Corps dams, projects undamaged after Napa quake

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-owned dams and ongoing Corps construction projects in the vicinity of the Aug. 25 Northern California earthquake are undamaged, Corps engineers verified in site inspections Aug. 25-26.

  • Army Corps awards $1.4 million for drought-resistant landscaping at Presidio of Monterey

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a $1.4 million

  • Corps to host public meetings to update Pine Flat Lake master plan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District will host public meetings Sept. 9-10 seeking input to update Pine Flat Lake and Dam’s master plan, which guides the management of natural and cultural resources and development of recreation-related facilities in and around the Corps-managed reservoir 35 miles east of Fresno.

  • Accelerated Folsom Dam spillway progress estimated to reduce project emissions

    Analysis of air quality compliance for the Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway project released August 18 found that increased construction activity would likely cause emissions to exceed federal thresholds for 2014, but could help reduce total emissions over the life of the project.

  • Corps begins real estate actions for Isabella Lake Dam project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has begun to acquire land and relocate residents at two of 12 properties that will be impacted by construction of the Isabella Lake Dam Safety Modification Project. As part of the analysis of the project’s potential effects on the properties, the Corps released a finding of no significant impact and supplemental environmental assessment for public review.

  • Sacramento District archaeologist helps preserve “layer cake” of history

    Over 1,900 acres of Northern California property located between Folsom and El Dorado Hills is like “a layer cake of modern history,” according to Erin Hess, an archaeologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Regulatory Division. “This area includes everything from remnants of placer mining, hydraulic mining, dredge mining, dairy operations, roadside inns from the 1800s all the way up to Cold War-era missile research facilities,” said Hess.