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Members of the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW) coordinated and completed a ditch improvement project in March on the post’s cantonment area near West Headquarters Road.
The completion of the project was a long-overdue project, said DPW Operations and Maintenance Division Chief Nate Sobojinski.
“DPW performed long overdue maintenance of Ditch 2A,” Sobojinski said. “Efforts for this project were supported through multiple branches within the DPW to ensure we restored Ditch 2A to as it was constructed back in 1942.”
Sobojinski said the work addressed areas of increased ground saturation that has happened in the ditch over the years in an area north of West Headquarters Road.
“The DPW worked in-house with an environmental assessment of the work area by all branches of the Environmental Division,” he said. “This included clearing the invasive species and identifying the protected species, and getting approval to remove trees from the ditch line through our Natural Resources and Compliance Branches, which in turn led to supporting (Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security) DPTMS Range Maintenance with logs for use on their demolition ranges.”
Support for the project also included help from the DPW Engineering Division’s Design Branch; DPW Business and Operations Integration Division Procurement Branch; Mission Installation Contracting Command-McCoy; Fort McCoy Grounds Services Contractor Kaiyuh Services, LLC; and others.
“Tree removals and brush shredding efforts were completed while frost was still in the ground to minimize disturbance to the existing ditch banks until the contractor was able to return after things thawed out,” Sobojinski said. “The roads and grounds contractor minimally excavated some areas as needed to return Ditch 2A back to its original profile while creating a lasting maintenance access route along the west bank. This will be for future use to do continued maintenance of the ditch.”
Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.
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| Date Taken: | 04.18.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 04.18.2022 16:26 |
| Story ID: | 418711 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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