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Kelley Peck, chief of the water resources section at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, participates in a session of the Supervisor Training Program at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, May 8, 2024. The STP is a year-long course for supervisors that blends technical knowledge and management skills with Army values and leadership principles to produce better leaders for the organization. (USACE Photo by Luciano Vera)

Lt. Col. Robert W. Green, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander; Maj. Todd Mainwaring, Nashville District deputy commander; and Michael Evans, course instructor, pose with graduates of the 2023 Leadership Development Program Level I Course Sept. 13, 2023, at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

Old Hickory Dam operates with water releases as designed today on the Cumberland River in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the project. (USACE Photo)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces the area below Cordell Hull Dam known as the Right Bank Tailwater Recreation Area has reopened following construction work recently completed to stabilize the rock bluff below the dam. (USACE Photo by Ashley Webster)

Stephanie Coleman, Equal Employment Opportunity Office chief, shares her experiences and expertise as a supervisor and EEO officer May 8, 2024, with participants in the Supervisors Training Program at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. She started as a part time clerk typist with the Operations Division’s Natural Resources Branch in September 1987. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

Kayleigh Griffin, admin support assistant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Hydrology and Hydraulics Branch in Nashville, Tennessee, prepares informational materials at the Nashville District Headquarters May 7, 2024, for an upcoming Education Seminar and Conference for Administrative Professional’s Enrichment, also called “ESCAPE.” (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

Jasmine Watson, administrative professional in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Integrated Project Office, provides an equipment inventory update May 7, 2024, with Elizabeth Burks, IPO chief, at the office in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

Virginia Bevis, administrative support assistant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District in the Mid-Tennessee River Area Office, serves employees at Wilson, Wheeler, and Guntersville Locks in Alabama. She is seen here May 7, 2024, by the lock chamber at Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River in Florence, Alabama. (USACE Photo by Donna Robertson)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces operational changes to Cook Recreation Area at J. Percy Priest Lake. Park staff will use electric gates, traffic cones and newly constructed roundabout and entrance station to manage traffic flow and parking. (USACE Photo by Dave Parsons)

Holes and deterioration in the east breakwater in Great Sodus Bay where decades of wave action, ice, and storms from Lake Ontario have deteriorated the structure in Sodus Point, N.Y.

Piers and breakwaters form the entrance to Great Sodus Bay in Sodus Point, N.Y., June 15, 2022.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks about current conditions and about upcoming work on the Great Sodus Bay East Breakwater during a press conference in Sodus Point, N.Y.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces roadway impacts are expected crossing Wolf Creek Dam on Highway 127 when the Wolf Creek Dam Spillway Gates Replacement Project gets underway in mid-June. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

The Special Recreation Day is an annual event tailored specifically to provide a range of outdoor activities and games for children and adults with special needs.

Charles Sawyer, Ph.D., received the American Society of Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Bryan Bledsoe and Todd Newman take their expertise to Antarctica

The Crooked River Lock, seen in this July 4, 2023 file image, in Alanson, Michigan will reopen April 29 after undergoing maintenance work during the winter to replace aging electrical components. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Brandon Hubbard)

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The Pittsburgh District partnered with the Pittsburgh Pirates to record a water safety video.

A photo of a man in military dress posing.

This is Center Hill Dam on the Caney Fork River in Lancaster, Tennessee, which forms Center Hill Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District completed an Environmental Assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act to update the Center Hill Dam and Reservoir Water Control Manual. As a result of this update, the Nashville District is implementing operational changes at Center Hill. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

A dredging vessel fills a barge with material pulled from the bottom of the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio

McAlpine Locks and Dam's first female lock operator, Sally Waterbury, who has worked at McAlpine for nearly four decades, stands on the gates of the south chamber in front of the control tower April 10, 2024.

Leadership from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Strategic Systems Engineering Facility in Crane, Indiana, Apr. 15, 2024. The new strategic missions facility will provide new integrated systems engineering and test capability and is planned to be completed at the end of 2025.

Col. L. Reyn Mann , USACE Louisville District Commander provides remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Strategic Systems Engineering Facility in Crane, Indiana, Apr. 15, 2024.

Representatives with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, Naval Surface Warface Center, Crane Division, U.S. Navy Research, Development, Testing and Engineering and contractor participated in the ceremonial breaking of ground, March 21, 2024, which marked the start of the construction for the Missile Technology Evaluation Facility at NSWC Crane.

Approximately 50 participants attended the Army Reserve Engineering Program Review meeting at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 27-28.

Col. Martin Naranja, Director of the Army Reserve Installation Management Directorate (ARIMD) Office, discusses project execution with members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District during the Army Reserve Engineering Program Review meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 27.

Mechille Peters, a quality assurance construction representative for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District, currently works on the Louisville VA Medical Center construction project in Louisville, Kentucky.

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26 Feb 2024
Nashville District helps deliver ‘Habitat for Humanity’ home to mail clerk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 26, 2024) – Owning one’s own home has always been a part of the American dream. For Theo Caldwell, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, his dream of being a homeowner became a reality after being selected to receive a Habitat for Humanity home.
26 Feb 2024
Louisville District debris team supports Tennessee tornado recovery
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District deployed debris subject matter experts and subject matter specialists to Nashville, Tennessee, Dec. 17, 2023, to support debris removal operations in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV Joint Field Office. The cadre was called to action in response to the aftermath of severe storms that developed across west and middle Tennessee, Dec. 9, 2023.
22 Feb 2024
USACE expands DoDEA mission, prepares to outfit more than 170 pre-k classrooms worldwide
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District recently partnered with the Department of Defense Education Activity to provide furniture and curriculum for DoDEA’s early childhood education
22 Feb 2024
Welcome to the future: The Louisville District celebrates National Engineers Week
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is celebrating National Engineers Week, Feb. 18-24. “Welcome to the Future” is the theme of this year’s annual event, celebrating the positive future of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
21 Feb 2024
Dewey Lake Additional Drawdown to Fight Hydrilla
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - The Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces that Dewey Lake will be drawn down an additional 2 ft. under normal winter pool to 643ft. for hydrilla treatment in
20 Feb 2024
Managing water in the Nashville District
What is Water Management? Here in the Nashville District, crisscrossed by the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, water management is a constant and ever-changing balancing act.
20 Feb 2024
Officials highlight professional accreditation during National Engineers Week
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 20, 2024) – To celebrate National Engineers Week, officials highlighted the importance of achieving professional accreditation and recognized the newest licensed professionals during a recognition ceremony today in the hallway where their nameplates are now affixed on the “Registered Professional Personnel” board.
20 Feb 2024
Construction of DoDEA 21st Century School taking shape at Fort Campbell
A new 167,000 square-foot Department of Defense Education Activity middle school at Fort Campbell, Kentucky., is more than 70 percent complete with a majority of the 35 learning neighborhoods having
16 Feb 2024
Marvels of Muskingum
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Old Hickory Lake Visitor Center phone number restored
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 14. 2024) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces that the Old Hickory Lake Visitor Center phone number has been restored from an extended outage after a tornado struck facilities and knocked down trees on the shoreline of the lake in December 2023.

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