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  • Water, Weather and the Future

    In cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Labs, the Corps of Engineers recently issued the West-Wide Climate Risk Assessment: Upper Rio Grande Impact Assessment (URGIA), which investigates historic and future climate trends in the Rio Grande Basin.

  • Q&A with Brad Hudgens: SWDs Planning Center for Expertise Technical Dirctor

    SWD hosts the Corps' Planning Center of Expertise for Water Management and Reallocation Studies. The PCX provides technical support and peer review for studies related to water supply and other conservation purposes in multipurpose reservoirs. Brad Hudgens serves as the Technical Director of the Corps' Planning Center for Expertise. In this spotlight, Hudgens discusses his role with the PCX and explains what the Corps role with our Nation's water supply is and why it's so important.

  • District Hosts Bi-Annual Rio Grande Basin Meeting

    The Albuquerque District hosted the Rio Grande Basin meeting on September 17-18, to discuss the impacts of the devastating wildfires during the past two years in the upper basin, and the resulting prior and present flooding.

  • Gathright Dam to conduct fourth pulse release of 2013

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will conduct a pulse release at Gathright Dam, near Covington, Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 24, beginning at approximately 6 a.m. The water release will gradually increase and peak at 3,500 cubic feet per second by 9 a.m.

  • Raystown Lake promotes water safety, art education through chalk art

    For the second year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Raystown Lake hosted “Chalk on the Walk”, a

  • Baltimore District, partners team up for Labor Day water rescue simulation

    Did you know it only takes less than a half cup of water in your lungs to drown?  Whether you are a

  • Water Control Office Annual Operating Meeting to be held at Mark Twain Lake

    Mark Twain Lake – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake invites everyone to the M.W.

  • Counting Fish in a Fluid Environment

    On a hot, sultry, mid-August day, I’m standing thigh-deep in the slow, muddy Rio Grande watching U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fishery Biologist Dr. Michael “Mick” Porter and Aquatic Ecologist Justin Reale; Eric Gonzalez, Michael Hatch, Matt McMillan, biologists with SWCA Environmental Consultants; and TetraTech biologist Michael Marcus seine for fish.

  • A Community Perspective on the Corps’ Acequia Rehabilitation Program

    In recent years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has used its authority under the Acequia Rehabilitation Program of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to work with the communities, the State of New Mexico and other federal agencies to upgrade many acequias, including downstream of Santa Rosa, N.M., on the Pecos River.

  • Middle East Meets West: The Ebb and Flow of International Water Management

    On July 3, the Cochiti Project office, Albuquerque District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, had the honor of hosting water managers from various countries in the Middle East. The visiting managers represented the countries of Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Yemen.