22 Dec 2025

Coming Full Circle: Buffalo District Biologist Sam Knapp Builds a Career Rooted in Restoration

There are moments when life and work come full circle. For Sam Knapp, a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, that moment has already arrived early in her career. Sam, a native of Suffield, Ohio, and graduate of the University of Akron, has been connected to the Buffalo District since 2021—first through interagency work as an intern, and now as a full-time biologist with the Regulatory team in the Stow, Ohio, field office.

3 Jul 2023

Headwaters Highlights: Regulators ‘mount up’ to defend waterways and wetlands in Pittsburgh’s watersheds

Unlike the gun-slinging outlaws of the 1870s bringing violence to the Western frontier in New Mexico, or the Warren G rappers of the 1990s cruising to the Eastside Motel in Los Angeles, today’s regulators “mount up” for a very different reason in the Pittsburgh District.

19 May 2023

Buffalo District Regulators Host the NCNE Wetland Delineation Training

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District Regulatory Branch brought together 16 partners from different federal government agencies around the country to earn their certification in Northcoast Northeast Wetland Delineation through a four-day classroom and field training course, May 1-4, 2023.

1 Mar 2022

Regulators ensure safe navigation and protection of aquatic resources during Beckjord Power Plant cleanup

In February 2021, a smokestack, associated with the demolition of the former Beckjord Generating Station, toppled into the Ohio River at mile marker 453 in New Richmond, Ohio. The waste debris in the river caused concerns from the local communities, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District, under their regulatory authorities for Waters of the U.S., quickly responded ordering the contractors to clean it up and complete compliance actions required by USACE.