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Contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District install a 23-foot-tall concrete shaft enclosure weighing approximately 120,000 pounds as part of the guard wall at the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Nov. 16, 2023.

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  • October

    With Cordell Hull Dam in the background, Rep. John Rose, Tennessee 6th District, gives the keynote address while addressing guests during the dam’s 50th Anniversary celebration Oct. 7, 2023, on the shoreline below the dam in Elmwood, Tennessee. He noted that celebrating the achievements of the engineers and the contractors, and public policy makers of the time, made this project possible. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Communities celebrate Cordell Hull Dam’s 50th Anniversary

    ELMWOOD, Tenn. (Oct. 10, 2023) – Local communities, residents and officials celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Cordell Hull Dam Oct. 7 by paying tribute to residents that were displaced, featuring historical aspects of the dam’s construction, and noting the benefits that were realized for future generations when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impounded the lake.

  • September

    C.J. Mahan work crews place 148 cubic yards of tremie concrete Sept. 20, 2023, from a pump truck into a tremie pipe for placement into the shaft on the bottom of the Tennessee River for the first of 14 shafts for the upstream approach wall piers. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Upstream Approach Wall construction is an integral part of the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Matthew Curvin)

    Chickamauga’s upstream approach wall piers get solid start

    CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Sept. 27, 2023) – The Upstream Approach Walls for the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project got a solid start when work crews placed 148 cubic yards of tremie concrete Sept. 20 into the drilled shaft on the bottom of the Tennessee River.
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    Veteran emergency manager leads USACE Recovery Field Office on Maui

    HONOLULU (Sept. 25, 2023) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has established a Recovery Field Office on Maui in support of the Hawaii' wildfires disaster response, and veteran emergency manager from the USACE Nashville District Jerry Breznican has assumed a key role managing the hub of USACE response activities.
  • 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)

    Commander praises employees for capitalizing on leadership development

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 19, 2023) – Eighteen employees with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District graduated Sept. 13 from the first level of the Leadership Development Program during a ceremony at the Scarritt Bennett Center.
  • Joe Savage (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division programs director, presents the Ron Keeling Civil Works Programming Excellence Award Aug. 29, 2023, to Connie Flatt, civil engineer and program manager in the Nashville District’s Planning, Program, and Project Management Division, during a ceremony at the division headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Donald Johantges, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Civil Works Integration Division chief, also participated in recognizing Flatt. (USACE Photo)

    Division recognizes Flatt with ‘Ron Keeling Civil Works Programming Excellence Award’

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 18, 2023) – A program manager in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is being lauded by the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division for her work that led to $376 million in Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act funding to replace the spillway gates and associated equipment at Wolf Creek Dam in Jamestown, Kentucky, and Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tennessee.
  • Diana Namara, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District contracting specialist, works on a contracting action Sept. 5, 2023, at her workstation in the Contracting Division in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Contracting Division obligates ‘team’ approach to close out fiscal year

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 15, 2023) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is working to obligate appropriated funds as fiscal year 2023 ends. The Contracting Division is obligating its usual “team” approach to award contracts for operations, maintenance, and construction projects by the end of September.

  • August

    Greg Cox, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District work leader at Fort Loudoun Lock and Melton Hill Lock, works Aug. 17, 2023, at Melton Hill Lock on the Clinch River in Lenoir City, Tennessee. He recently received the USACE Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Operations and Maintenance Castle Award. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Cox garners division’s Operations and Maintenance ‘Castle Award’

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 18, 2023) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division recently recognized a Nashville District work leader as the recipient of its prestigious Operations and Maintenance Castle Award.
  • Greg Cox, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District work leader at Fort Loudoun Lock and Melton Hill Lock, works Aug. 17, 2023, at Melton Hill Lock on the Clinch River in Lenoir City, Tennessee. He recently received the USACE Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Operations and Maintenance Castle Award. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Cox garners division’s Operations and Maintenance ‘Castle Award’

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 18, 2023) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division recently recognized a Nashville District work leader as the recipient of its prestigious Operations and Maintenance Castle Award.
  • Lock Operator Tony Certeza works Aug. 8, 2023, to lock through the Motor Vessel H.B. Stewart with barges of coal at Old Hickory Lock on the Cumberland River in Old Hickory, Tennessee. He recently returned from a deployment to Guam in the aftermath of Typhoon Mawar that devastated his native island in late May. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Lock operator returns home to Guam to support Typhoon Mawar recovery

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 11, 2023) – Old Hickory Lock Operator Anthony Certeza recently deployed to Guam in the aftermath of Typhoon Mawar, which devastated his native island in late May. He performed home inspections and literally assisted his own parents who lost power and needed his help.

  • July

    The Inland Waterways Users Board receives a presentation July 19, 2023, about site geology at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The ongoing construction can be seen on the left while the active navigation lock miter gates are visible on the right. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is constructing a larger lock at the Tennessee Valley Authority dam. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    IWUB checks on progress of Kentucky Lock Addition Project

    GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (July 21, 2023) – The Inland Waterways Users Board checked on the progress of the Kentucky Lock Addition Project this week as part of its visit to the region for a board meeting in nearby Paducah, Kentucky.
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