Soldiers with C Company, 249th Engineer Battalion (Prime Power), based out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, install electrical generator equipment Nov. 6, 2012, at a Carteret, N.J. fuel depot that lost power during Hurricane Sandy. This work was critical to relieving gas shortages experienced by recovering communities in the immediate days following the storm. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)
SEATTLE – A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team rescued a 6-foot white sturgeon during the annual maintenance pump out at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks November 10.
Each year, Corps natural resource and maintenance staff, fish biologists, scientists and volunteers go on a fish-rescue mission when the locks are drained. Although de-watering is done during low tide, some fish and other marine life are sometimes captured in the chamber when the lock gates are closed. To ensure Endangered Species Act listed fish are safe, the team must capture, haul them out of the 50-foot-deep chamber and release them.
The team doesn’t limit its efforts to ESA listed species and this year the rescue included an estimated 100-pound sturgeon....
GALVESTON, Texas (June 13, 2017) – The Galveston District, US Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) informs the public of the release of the draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Resacas at Brownsville Ecosystem Restoration Study in Cameron County, Texas.
GALVESTON, Texas (June 8, 2017) – Thanh Nguyen was just five years old when she and her family fled the country of Vietnam. They partook on a dangerous voyage by boat when it started to malfunction. By the grace of a captain on a nearby boat, they were rescued and escorted to Thailand. There, her family had the choice between the United States, France, or Australia. In hopes of a better life and greater opportunity, her family chose to...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Voith Hydro installed a 249-ton hydropower rotor June 19, 2017 at Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn., culminating weeks of safety preparations to lift and maneuver the heavy load into position to generate hydroelectricity. The rehabilitation of the hydropower generator is expected to be complete in late July with its final assembly and load testing.
