Story by JoAnne Castagna | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District | 12.06.2024
As New York District employees, you’re aware of the critical missions our agency successfully performs for the Nation. Whether it’s strengthening our coasts to withstand the brunt of stronger coastal storms, building facilities for our service men and women, or constructing temporary hospitals in the middle of a world-wide pandemic – our District has always met these challenges and shined....
Story by JoAnne Castagna | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District | 08.07.2024
Allan Little, a sixty-two-year-old Far Rockaway resident, who is deaf, is sitting next to a beach dune, digging into the sand with his bare hands, under the warm sun. He is planting vegetation to help make Rockaway Beach more resilient to coastal storm erosion and flooding....
Story by AnnMarie Harvie | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District | 07.20.2023
Torrential downpours in mid-July inundated New England with massive amounts of rainfall. Vermont and New Hampshire received the largest impacts and the water levels rose behind all of the USACE dams in the Upper Connecticut River Basin....
Story by Ayumi Davis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 05.31.2023
FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. (May 31, 2023) -- Aidan Huang is a student intern at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division, aspiring to be a mechanical engineer. However, he was originally on course to become a computer engineer....
Story by Ayumi Davis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 03.31.2023
FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. (March 31, 2023) -- Hazel Wong, emergency operations manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division, first came to the United States when she was 21, looking for work opportunities to support her family and escape hardships back home in Burma (Myanmar)....
Story by Ayumi Davis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 03.24.2023
FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. (March 24, 2023) -- Lydia Williams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division chief of real estate, was in junior high school when she first took a civics class. The class made her decide then that she would become an attorney....
Story by Ayumi Davis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 03.15.2023
FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. (March 15, 2023) – Anela Arcari, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division chief of staff, knew exactly what she wanted to be by the time she was 13. Growing up, Arcari was a military brat. By the age of 12, she had lived more than half of her life outside of the United States, having the opportunity to live in Germany and travel to major European cities, doing......
Story by Ayumi Davis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 03.10.2023
FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. (March 10, 2023) -- Amy Holmes, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division strategic integrator, remembers being in college flipping through a course catalog when the idea of majoring in anthropology came to her....
