Story by Melanie Peterson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District | 12.01.2025
In a first-of-its-kind study, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and the Engineer Research and Development Center, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, are partnering to make informed decisions about river sand removed from the Mississippi River using it for ecosystem restoration projects....
Story by Melanie Peterson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District | 12.02.2021
The Corps is moving dirt near Conway Lake, a habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project immediately upstream of Lansing, Iowa. Conway Lake is one of the ongoing restoration projects under the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program, or UMRR....
Story by Victor Chen | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | 02.20.2020
Understanding ground characteristics is part of the science and the art of geotechnical engineering, which can be useful in multiple areas, including project management and planning....
Story by Abby Korfhage | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 10.10.2018
At the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Louisville District environmental team has been providing field oversight of a soil and groundwater remediation system installation at a Superfund Site in Zionsville, Indiana. The innovative technology is called Electrical Resistivity Heating. It is an environmental remediation method that uses electricity to heat soil and groundwater....
Story by Roland Balik | 436th Airlift Wing | 08.09.2018
The U.S. Department of Agriculture selected Dover AFB as a test site for a Japanese beetle biological control project that consisted of using dead Japanese beetles as a host for a single-cell, fungal-like pathogen to reduce the reproductive capability of the beetle....
Story by Sgt. John Carkeet IV | 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | 01.27.2017
Seven Army Reserve Soldiers from the 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) joined scores of volunteers from the Orlando community to help bring the garden back to its former, greener glory. Directed by Green Works Orlando in conjunction with the National Football League Environmental Program, the garden’s revival was one of the many community projects both organizations managed to lighten......
Story by Isidro Reyna | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District | 08.08.2011
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract, Aug. 2, to Kenall Inc., an 8(a) small business, in the amount of $394,125.34 for geotechnical exploration (field and laboratory testing) along the Houston Ship Channel in Harris and Chambers counties, Texas....
