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15 Dec 2011
USACE leverages drought to perform lake maintenance
Water levels at Tulsa District lakes were the lowest in years as the result of an extreme drought. The drought had many negative impacts on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local communities, but USACE took advantage of the low water to perform routine necessary maintenance on facilities that are usually underwater.
12 Dec 2011
Huntsville team supports flood victims
On Sept. 8, a tropical storm brought heavy flooding in the Susquehanna River Valley, and FEMA assigned a temporary housing mission to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The housing planning and response team (PRT) from Huntsville Center took the mission to support residents rendered homeless by the Susquehanna River flood.
12 Dec 2011
Huntsville team supports flood victims
On Sept. 8, a tropical storm brought heavy flooding in the Susquehanna River Valley, and FEMA assigned a temporary housing mission to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The housing planning and response team (PRT) from Huntsville Center took the mission to support residents rendered homeless by the Susquehanna River flood.
2 Dec 2011
Huntsville Center ends munitions disposal mission in Iraq
At one time, it would have been easy to call Iraq the most dangerous place on Earth. Years of war and slipshod munitions accountability during the Saddam Hussein regime had turned the country into a thicket of unexploded ordnance.

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24 Oct 2011
USACE waives day-use fees at recreation areas on Veterans Day
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will waive day-use fees for veterans, active and reserve component service members, and their families at the more than 2,400 Corps-operated recreation areas nationwide on Veterans Day, November 11.
20 Oct 2011
USACE opens National Levee Database for public access Oct. 27
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) today announced it will open the National Levee Database (NLD) for public access with a series of public webinars beginning Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. EDT. The NLD is a living, dynamic information source that provides visualization and search capability for the first time on the location and condition of levee systems nationwide.
21 Sep 2011
Army Corps of Engineers supports National Public Lands Day, Sept. 24
Thousands of local volunteers at more than 120 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) sites will participate in this year’s 18th annual National Public Lands Day, Sept. 24, the largest annual volunteer hands-on restoration activity of its kind.
8 Sep 2011
USACE Releases Report on Initial Research into the Effects of Woody Vegetation on Levees
The research, conducted by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), focused primarily on the gathering of root characterization and site conditions through fieldwork, and modeling of single, living trees for both slope stability analyses and seepage analyses.