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  • March

    Tim Dunn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Operations Division deputy chief, presents the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Water Safety Team Award March 5, 2024, to (Left to Right) Park Rangers Stone Fagan, Hunter Humphrey, Lucas Hix, Ashley Webster, and Resource Manager Kenny Claywell at the Nashville District's Park Ranger Workshop in Paducah, Kentucky. The team is lauded for its promotion of water safety during the 2023 recreation season and the project’s 50th Anniversary activities. Teammates Brad Potts and Nathan Pennington were not able to attend the award presentation. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Cordell Hull Lake staff garners Water Safety Team Award

    PADUCAH, Ky. (March 13, 2024) – The staff at Cordell Hull Lake received the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division’s Water Safety Team Award during a workshop here March 5, 2024, for outstanding work in educating the public about being safe recreating in the water and boating on the lake.

  • 11th Annual Huntington Small Business Conference

    REGISTRATION IS OPEN!11th Annual Huntington Small Business ConferenceIcebreaker/Networking Event: Wednesday, May 1, 2024Heritage Station Patio, 210 11th Street, Huntington, WVConference: Thursday, May 2, 2024DoubleTree by Hilton Huntington1001 3rd Avenue, Huntington, WVANTICIPATED AGENDA Huntington District Overview Networking with Corps Senior
  • Lisa Morgan represented the Huntington District at the ground breaking ceremony of the Chauncey Sewer Replacement Project.

    Chauncey Section 594 Ground Breaking Ceremony

    Lisa Morgan represented the Huntington District at the ground breaking ceremony of the Chauncey Sewer Replacement Project.
  • Tim Dunn, (Left) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Operations Division deputy chief, presents the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Star of Life Award March 5, 2024, to Lake Cumberland Park Ranger Tanner Rich at the Nashville District's Park Ranger Workshop in Paducah, Kentucky. Rich is lauded for his response to aid a severely injured woman on the lake during the 2023 recreation season. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Lake Cumberland park ranger receives Star of Life Award

    PADUCAH, Ky. (March 12, 2024) – Park Ranger Tanner Rich received the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division’s Star of Life Award during a workshop here March 5, 2024, for his actions to assist and provide first aid to a severely injured woman at Lake Cumberland during the 2023 recreation season.
  • The Pittsburgh District hosted a multi-day exercise to simulate intense rain in a short time, leading to floods in a nearby county. Throughout the scenario, the Crisis Action Team and the district staff responded to rapidly changing events.

    Pittsburgh emergency team simulates its first scenario-driven exercise for local flood response

    As heavy rain hit the Pittsburgh region, waters flooded homes and carried debris across roadways that blocked emergency routes. Quickly, local resources became overwhelmed, and county leaders requested additional aid.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District park rangers that work at the 10 lakes the district operates in the Cumberland River Basin pose together March 5, 2024, during the Park Ranger Workshop in Paducah, Kentucky. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Workshop equips park rangers with tools of the trade

    PADUCAH, Ky. (March 11, 2024) – Corps of Engineers officials equipped park rangers throughout the Cumberland River Basin with the tools of the trade during a workshop March 5-7 at the West Kentucky Community and Technical College Emerging Technology Center in Paducah, Kentucky.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District intern, Scott Poffenberger works to complete his onboarding information as he begins his employment at the Cleveland Project Office while continuing his education at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 20, 2024.

    Scott Poffenberger: learning engineering in the classroom and the field with USACE

    Opportunities for hands-on learning in engineering and a chance to help solve some of the nation’s toughest challenges may exist in your own back yard or near your college campus. Scott Poffenberger joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District Cleveland Project Office as an intern while attending his first year at Cleveland State University’s engineering program school.
  • Surveyors use advanced scanning equipment to collect thousands of measurements and datapoints to produce digital images with accuracy down to the millimeter.

    Headwaters Highlights: Surveyors measure a thousand times, take no shortcuts

    In the world of carpentry and construction, a famous proverb cautions laborers to "measure twice, cut once," but in the field of survey work, measuring twice is not enough.
  • Ohio Partnership Meeting

    Ohio Partnership Meeting

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Rivers Division met with representatives from the Ohio state agencies to discuss their respective programs, as well as explore collaborative efforts for the future in the state’s public infrastructure projects.Along with the representatives from all of the USACE districts within the Great Lakes and

  • February

    Girl Scouts with Troop 296 pose Feb. 22, 2024, while volunteering at the Environmental Study Area on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake. (Photo by Carrie Darling)

    Girl Scouts spruce up Old Hickory Lake’s Environmental Study Area

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 29, 2024) – Girl Scout Troop 296 joined other community volunteers and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park rangers Saturday to spruce up and make minor improvements to the Environmental Study Area on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake.