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A high-end Category 4 storm, Ian was the strongest hurricane to hit Florida since 2018. For Molly Holt and her team, a greater reality of the destruction was revealed as families began to come back to the places their homes once stood. sac.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Sto
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His first order of business - filling critical vacancies, further develop Esprit de Corps, maintain & enhance the trust & confidence of the stakeholders, & improve the efficiency of the construction modification process.
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#SoldiersAndMaps Paratrooper plots a point on the map during week-long training for the Expert Infantryman Badge, Expert Soldier Badge, and Expert Field Medical Badge. #SkillsCount #LandNavigation
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Photo of the week: The sun rises in the early morning hours at Smithland Lock and Dam in Brookport, Illinois. (Photo by Pam Travis)
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News Release: Soo Locks to open March 25 for 2023 shipping season
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The New Orleans District recently awarded a contract for constructing the second levee reach on the WSLP Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project.
More Information: mvn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Rel
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! 
#DYK that St. Patrick is considered the patron saint of engineers? Aside from his legendary prowess in driving the snakes out of Ireland, he is also known for helping to build some of the first churches in the country. 
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#DYK that St. Patrick is considered the patron saint of engineers? Aside from his legendary prowess in driving the snakes out of Ireland, he is also known for helping to build some of the first churches in the country. online-engineering.case.edu/blog/the-story
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#MeetOurPartners. 's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (#JPRA) is an agile, adaptive, and integrated team focused on optimizing and unifying efforts across the global Personnel Recovery enterprise. #GRL
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We're extending our annual navigation lock outage on the #ColumbiaRiver by 24 hours for the John Day Dam lock as we replace the wire ropes that raise the upstream gate.
John Day is scheduled to reopen at 11:59pm March 19. Bonneville and The Dalles will reopen March 18.
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View updates on 4 Hurricane Harvey Supplemental Program projects in Texas. Lewisville Lake dam & spillway, flood risk management & ecosystem restoration in the Dallas Floodway & Floodway Extension & construction of the Santa Fe Ditch in Wharton.
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Tomorrow our representatives will be on site at #WiCyS2023! Stop by booth 336 to learn more about the opportunities that exist within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers! Learn more about working for USACE: usace.army.mil/Careers/
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#TriviaThursday! How much material has the North Atlantic Division dredged?
Check back in later for the answer!
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. is constructing a new entrance barricade at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, SC. SRS is an approximately 310-square-mile site managed by the Department of Energy that is spread across Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale counties.
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District Commander Col. Julie Balten and South Pacific Division DVA Project Execution Office Chief David Van Dorpe address employees working on the South Pacific Division's program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs at a meeting March 15 in Phoenix.
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Technology developed at is providing USACE a better tool to reduce the risk of levee breaches. Learn more: usace.army.mil/Media/News/New
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After being presented and adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, CRIDA was then translated from English into Spanish in 2019. Learn more: army.mil/article/264873 3/3
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2023 Engineer Regimental Week Activities
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You can learn more USMA West Point history here: westpoint.edu/about/history-\
Thanks to Elizabeth Woodruff/USMA PAO, for the beautiful photos from the Academy yesterday. Check them out! 2/2
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“The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maryland National Guard, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been training civil-military collaboration and emergency response since 2007,” said Colloton. Learn more: dvidshub.net/news/440331 3/3
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“Communication is extremely challenging during a crisis, which is why we emphasize the importance of practicing, training, and strengthening partnerships over time, not overnight,” said Maj. Gen. Kimberly Colloton, USACE Deputy CG for Military and International Operations. 2/3
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#ThrowbackThursday Did you know? Boston Harbor is New England’s largest port serving for the export and import of commerce for the area. The New England District has proudly monitored and maintained the Boston Harbor for over 150 years. #USACE #BuildingStrong
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Los Angeles District Commander Col. Julie Balten and the 355th Mission Support Group Commander Air Force Col. Casey J. Bartholomew discuss the possibility of future partnerships during a meeting March 14 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ. #usacespl
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. Maintenance Support Team and engineers from Kentucky & Barkley Locks onboard the Iroquois are making repairs along the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. The traveling MST is a three-person team assigned to the Iroquois. lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Sto
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Since 2010, the NFFMC within the has supplied over 55 million sandbags and hundreds of thousands of other materiels in support of the #USACE mission throughout the United States. 2/2
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The National Flood Fight Materiel Center was activated last weekend to assist @SacramentoDistrict with flood fight supplies. The NFFMC delivered 175,000 sandbags to Sacramento District with an additional 50,000 to the State of Nevada and 355,000 to the State of California. 1/2
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We're releasing 10,000+ cfs from Schafer Dam through our spillway and outlet works. With the help of City of Porterville, and we installed a log boom to catch debris before it flows through our spillway + see what a 5,200 cfs release looks like. #CAWX
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Through the Levee Safety Program, USACE and levee sponsors #partner to manage more than 1,600 levees across the U.S. The program includes levee inspections, risk assessments and sharing levee information. 
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Last week, BG Van Epps traveled to Colorado to meet with Administrator Nancy Dragani, and her team, to discuss the important partnership between and and how each support emergency response across the Great Plains.
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They took part in a virtual press conference from Howard A. Hanson Dam, to discuss next fiscal year's (FY2024) civil works budget. Together with Commander, Brig. Gen. Geoff Van Epps, the group also visited Mud Mountain Dam Fish Passage Facility. 2/2
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Last week, Michael Connor (r), Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham (l), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (Management and Budget) Stacy Brown, visited . 1/2
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Halfway through #WomensHistoryMonth, we offer a rundown of the many ways that women have contributed to the success of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Graphic by Wendy Wells:
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USACE is working in partnership with and to assist during this weather event. #CAWX Continue to monitor your local region to remain safe and utilize for all updates and information.
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@CALFIRE_TUU personnel in cooperation with @USACESacramento, @OCFireAuthority and @TulareCoFire created a debris collection system at Lake Success today. This system uses a chain of booms to act as a barrier for large objects in the water that could cause blockages downstream.
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Travis Tutka, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers senior dam safety program manager, got a first-hand look at Prado Dam, March 9, at Corona, California. Much of the dam’s basin, normally dry, is currently filled with runoff water from recent heavy winter storms. #USACESPL
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Dredging's in full swing near Cape May ferry terminal, the southern end of #USACE Philadelphia District New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway project! USACE's Dredge MURDEN is working there this week while our contractor will also continue to work in the area for about a month.
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