Terrariums are back, and in a big way! Even if you consider yourself a 'brown thumb' gardener, you can be successful with a terrarium. Once ...
Ground was broken on the Canadaway Creek Sewer Line Protection Project, Dunkirk, NY, August 12, 2014. (Left to Right: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District Commander LTC Karl Jansen,Congressmen Reed's representative Jacquelyn Chiarot, Village of Fredonia Mayor Steve Keefe, and State Assemblyman Andrew Goodell) The contract, awarded to Strock Enterprises LTD, is for construction of a trench-fill revetment, along approximately 800 feet of the creek’s left bank, parallel to the main sewer line. The revetment is constructed by first digging a ditch along the creek, filling it with a combination of steel mesh and rip rap, and then back filling and covering the ditch. As the shore erodes with time, the rip rap with fall into place and create a natural protected creek bank.
Dan Fowlkes, a Norfolk District construction representative, watches Paul Finn, from Fenwal Controls, connect the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame’s new digital sensor and controls for the at Arlington National Cemetery, Oct., 1, 2013. Contractors, overseen by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, worked during the summer to install a new burner, igniter, gas, and air lines as well as new safety controls and sensors. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Maj. Gen. Kendall Cox (center), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deputy commanding general for military and international operations, looks at a scale model of the new elementary and high school project at U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys March 6. The future principal of the elementary school (left) looks on. This was Cox’s first visit to the elementary school project. (Photo by Joe Campbell)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District geologists inspect Chickamauga Lock March 6, 2017 to prepare for future excavation of the Tennessee riverbed inside the coffer dam in Chattanooga, Tenn. (USACE photo by Mike Arles)
KDA returns home for FEMA meeting, tours local project-- Karen Durham-Aguilera (center), Director of Contingency Operations and Office of Homeland Security for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, gets a briefing on the Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway project March 10, 2015 in Folsom, California. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Durham-Aguilera is responsible for leadership of the Corps' missions in support of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of the Army
Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander, tours the Olmsted Lock and Dam project in Olmsted, Ill., June 7, 2016. The Louisville District is about 75 percent complete with the dam using ‘in the wet’ technology and a navigable pass construction technique. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)
Memphis District Corps of Engineers constructing a new Mississippi River gage site at Mhoon Landing, Miss. The gages provide information about the Mississippi river stages, which the district Hydraulics and Hydrology Branch uses to predict future water levels and track changes.
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., - (L-R) Col. Bill Cooley, materiel wing director, Space Vehicles Directorate; Dr. Jim Riker, chief scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate; Lt. Col. Gant, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District; Dr. B.K. “Babu” Singaraju, division chief, Space Vehicles Directorate; Capt. Dustin Guidry, deputy branch chief, Space Vehicles Directorate; Dr. Vincent Cowan, scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate; Brent Wilson, base civil engineer; Susan Atwood, deputy director, Space Vehicles Directorate; Maria Cornay, president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc.; Mike Granjean, vice president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc., all participated in the groundbreaking for the new Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory on Kirtland Air Force Base. (Photo by Ronnie Schelby)
Contractors prepare to pour concrete at the Veterans Memorial Bridge Pump Station in Council Bluffs along Missouri River Levee Unit L624-627, Feb. 10, 2012. The previous pump station, damaged in the Flood of 2011, has already been demolished to make way for the new structure. To allow the work to take place during frigid winter temperatures, an enclosed heated environment was created on the site. Scheduled to be completed by March 1, these repairs will return the level of flood risk reduction at this site to its pre-flood status. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo)
Representatives from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (U.S. Army TARDEC) are working with our Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory to install a section of a portable bridge system in our Pavement Testing Facility. The bridge section is part of a system under development to replace the portable Bailey bridge, which has been in use since World War II.
On March 29, 2013, a major milestone was completed at Stockton Power house. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel and construction workers from Voith removed the tower assembly which included the runner and the head covers. The assembly weighed approximately 320 tons. The lift was executed safely, and work continues to disassemble the old runner. The runner will be put on display on top of the hill. The new runner is scheduled to be placed back into the power house late 2013. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Bob Schoen.
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Sunshine, blue skies and a splendid fall afternoon set up an idyllic backdrop for the grand opening of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation's Outdoor Recreation Complex at Grafenwoehr Training Area. Military and civilian l...
Greg Crannell, vice principal of Folsom High School in Folsom, Calif. brought nearly 30 physics and engineering students to share his view of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway construction site February 18, 2014 in Folsom, Calif., during National Engineer Week. National Engineer Week is typically celebrated the third full week in February to recognize engineering feats such as the spillway. The Corps, together with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and state and local partners, is building the spillway to reduce flood risk throughout the Sacramento region. (U.S. Army photo by Todd Plain/Released)
SOUTH MILLS, N.C. — After nearly three months of rehabilitation work on lock gates at the Dismal Swamp Canal’s South Mills lock here, Mar. 6, 2012. A crew from U.S. Facilities, Inc., reinstall the two gates, which will safely extend their serviceability for up to 15 years. The two gates are part of the eight sets of gates throughout the Dismal Swamp and Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal waterways. Managed and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District, each set of the canal’s gates is refurbished on a rotational basis every five years. The Dismal Swamp and Albemarle and Chesapeake Canals form the historic Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, which provides pleasure boaters and commercial shippers with a protected inland channel between Norfolk, Va., and Miami, Fla. The Dismal Swamp Canal is the oldest continually operating manmade canal in the United States. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Gerald Rogers)
WIESBADEN, Germany - The sun was already shining on the new access control point, noted Col. David Carstens, U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden commander, as the garrison broke ground on its latest construction project on Clay Kaserne. Members of the ga...
Project Manager Rolando Sanidad discusses 17th Street levee closure project specifics with a local reporter, in Washington, D.C., Aug. 11, 2014. This project will protect critical infrastructure downtown like the Federal Triangle from potential flooding of the Potomac River. The closure is expected to be fully functioning by this fall. (U.S. Army Photo by Sarah Gross/Released)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District team is moving along with its clean-up work at the Formerly Used Defense Site just outside of Kingman, Ariz. which began Apr. 15. The work being done by the district and its contractor is part of...
Col. Bernard Lindstrom, Pittsburgh District commander, and members of the district met with members of Trumbull Corporation, the project contractor, to discuss ongoing construction on the back channel dam at Emsworth Lock and Dams, Aug. 7.
Captain Kerstin Hedlund, a U.S. Army chaplain, salutes the flag during a groundbreaking ceremony March 6, 2013, at the U.S. Army Garrison Camp Parks Reserve Training center in Dublin, Calif. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's real estate office is overseeing a 180-acre transfer of land, in exchange for an estimated $66 million in modern facilities for Camp Parks, over the next several years - the largest Army Reserve real property exchange agreement in Department of Defense history. (U.S. Army photo by Todd Plain/Released)
