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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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  • August

    Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander; and Stephanie Hall (Second from Left), Nashville District deputy district engineer; pose Aug. 24, 2022, with Retiree Linda Adcock and her husband Ricky after unveiling a nameplate honoring Adcock as a recipient of the 2022 Nashville District Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award at the headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Adcock receives Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 24, 2022) – Linda Adcock, who managed the Center Hill Dam Safety Rehabilitation Project before retiring in 2019, received the Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award today highlighting exceptional achievements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.
  • Nathan Alford, engineer technician and construction representative in the Nashville District’s Eastern Tennessee Resident Office in Knoxville; and Sue Nan Jehlen, Mountain Home National Cemetery director, pose by the expansion project sign during a site visit at the cemetery annex in Johnson, City, Tennessee, Aug. 10, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District constructing Mountain Home National Cemetery expansion

    JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 17, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is providing technical services and managing construction of the Mountain Home National Cemetery Expansion Project, which will add 6,365 burial and cremation plots, plus eight columbarium units with 3,140 niches for veteran internments.
  • Safety Officer John Schnebelen Sr. and his grandson Zander Poulton pose together June 9, 2018, after completing leg 22 of a team building voyage of the Cumberland River. Employees and family members cruised their way in canoes, kayaks, and boats downriver over 650 of 694 miles of the waterway. Schnebelen wrote a poem about the magnificence of the Cumberland River voyage in the trip logbook. (USACE Photo)

    Poem chronicles magnificence of historic Cumberland River voyage

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 1, 2022) – A poem inscribed in a trip logbook five years ago has newfound attention for how it chronicles the magnificence of the Cumberland River.

  • July

    Shonka Dukureh (Left), performs the National Anthem July 13, 2001, during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Change of Command Ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee. The singer and actress in the recently released movie Elvis passed away July 21, 2022, at the age of 44. The Nashville District is remembering her time as a public servant (USACE Photo)

    Shonka Dukureh remembered as ‘spirited’ public servant

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 22, 2022) – With breaking news of singer and actress Shonka Dukureh’s passing in Music City yesterday at the age of 44, the former Nashville District student aid is being remembered for her spirited work as a public servant in the Equal Employment Opportunity Office.

  • April

    Ryan Wigner (Right), technical lead for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, presents the completed Floodplain Management Services Study for Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, to Mayor Neal Pucciarelli at the city courthouse April 7, 2022. (USACE Photo by Aras Barzanji)

    Corps completes Cumberland Gap Flood Plain Management Services Study

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 29, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently completed a Flood Plain Management Services Special Study of the Gap Creek Watershed for the city of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
  • Lt. Col. Nathan Branen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District deputy commander, thanks the district’s administrative professionals for participating in “Educational Seminar and Conference for Administrative Professional’s Enrichment” April 1, 2022, at the Tennessee National Guard Training Facility in Smyrna, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Administrative professionals ESCAPE for training

    SMYRNA, Tenn. (April 5, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District provided an “ESCAPE” last week for employees called upon to answer phones, complete personnel actions, update training records, manage equipment accounts, purchase supplies, coordinate travel, input time and attendance, and other administrative tasks in their work centers.

  • March

    (Left to Right) Ben MacIntyre, biologist in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Regulatory Division’s Western Branch, Sammy Iskrzycki, biologist in the Regulatory Division Western Branch, Katie Alston, biologist in the Regulatory Division Technical Services Branch, and Mark G. McIntosh, project manager in the Regulatory Division Technical Services Branch, check for hydrology indicators at a soil point on a vegetation plot March 18, 2022, while training near J. Percy Priest Lake in Nashville, Tennessee. They support regulatory permitting actions at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Regulatory Division. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Regulatory Program facilitates environmental stewardship

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 24, 2022) – Ever wonder what federal agency provides regulatory oversight of commercial and private development affecting wetlands and waterways? The answer is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which facilitates environmental stewardship through its Regulatory Program.

  • February

    Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, and Ben Rohrbach, Nashville District Engineering and Construction Division chief, recognize the newest licensed professionals affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board Feb. 23, 2022, at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Newest licensed professionals celebrated for National Engineers Week

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 23, 2022) – To recognize the Nashville District’s newest licensed professionals during National Engineers Week, six nameplates have been affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board as a record of achievement for all to see in the district headquarters.
  • Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, and Ben Rohrbach, Nashville District Engineering and Construction Division chief, recognize the newest licensed professionals affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board Feb. 23, 2022, at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Newest licensed professionals celebrated for National Engineers Week

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 23, 2022) – To recognize the Nashville District’s newest licensed professionals during National Engineers Week, six nameplates have been affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board as a record of achievement for all to see in the district headquarters.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractors from Voith Hydro installed a 249-ton hydropower rotor on June 19, 2017, at Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tennessee.

    Turbine-generators replaced at Center Hill Hydropower Plant

    Lancaster, Tenn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and Voith Hydro Inc. of North America completed refurbishment of the three turbine-generators at Center Hill Hydropower Plant, August 2021.
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