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Welcome to the December 2024 edition of

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Core Connection and Happy Holidays from

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the US Army Corps of Engineers . We

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begin this month's program with a look

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at our continuing recovery efforts and

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assistance in support of FEMA in the

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hardest hit areas of North Carolina .

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Our Wilmington District commander ,

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Colonel Brad Morgan provides an update

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on the U SAS activities in Western

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North Carolina as we continue to assist

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our fellow citizens in the wake of

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hurricane Helene . So far , we've

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removed probably about 450,000 cubic

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yards of debris . Uh all storm related

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and , and event driven . Uh Most of

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that's been along the right of ways and ,

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and a lot of the counties that we've

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been working in . We've also been

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working hard down in uh Lake lure

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itself , removing the floating waterway

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debris there . We're about halfway

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finished with that quantity uh of

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debris that we pulled from the lake .

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And if any of you all saw the pictures

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of kind of the floating debris field

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there within lake lure itself , uh that

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debris field is now being cleared . So

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we're excited to have great progress on

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our debris removal operations In

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addition to debris removal U A

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continues to work on solutions to

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provide drinking water to localities as

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well as wastewater treatment

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capabilities to various communities in

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our Omaha district . The Gavin's Point

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Dam Powerhouse has recently received

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some new hardware , six new bulkhead

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gates which replace gates that have

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reached the end of their life span and

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will continue to help keep maintenance

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crew safe when they have to go inside

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the dam . When we go into annual

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maintenance , they drop these gates and

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men are behind these gates . So it

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keeps the water out . So we can

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actually do the maintenance on the

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inside of the unit . Each gate weighs

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38,000 pounds and is a critical piece

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to allowing the dam to provide power

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for 68,000 homes annually . Finally ,

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we turn our focus to information

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systems or GIS , which was celebrated

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as Gis Day on November 19th , Saint

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Paul district geographer Joel

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Porterfield talks about how important

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GIS is for you . A anything that's

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related to where things are is

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important to know for , for projects .

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It's collecting attributes of what is

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in a certain place . Gis allows us to

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connect geographic data in a visual

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format helping to paint a full picture

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for end users on what items and events

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exist or occurred in a specific

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location that wraps up December's core

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connection to see the full length

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stories of what we covered here . Check

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out the links in the description be

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sure to let us know what you think and

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be sure to hit those like and subscribe

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buttons . Until next time I'm Patrick B

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Bloodgood . And this has been core

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connection .