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welcomed
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and Warren County, MS Emergency Management Agency representatives to their Vicksburg campus recently. The visit strengthened #Preparedness collaboration efforts in emergency response situations. #Partnership
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The Civil Works Business Intelligence program has been a #USACE leader in cloud implementation over 10 years and continues to refactor Civil Works data and system assets to gain efficiencies, integrate resources, and reduce IT maintenance and cost: army.mil/article/266717
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The 249th Engineer Battalion is the U.S. Army's only power generation battalion. The battalion consists of a headquarters and headquarters company, four Prime Power line companies (A, B, C & D), and the Prime Power School. 2/3
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Staff Sgt. Dustin Aldrich, 249th Engineer Battalion - Prime Power, reenlisted today at Fort Belvoir atop a power pole with First Lt. Isabel Genco presiding over the ceremony. 1/3
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Steamboat Island – proposed by Sophia Princivalli a 5th grader from North Elementary of the Alton public School District Congratulations to the students for such a great accomplishment! #STEM 4/4
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The names and winners are: Canvasback Island -– proposed by Erin Federle a 6th grader from Jersey Community Middle School of the Jersey Public School District Moonlight Island – proposed by Cece Johnson a 5th grader from North Elementary of the Alton Public School District 3/4
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Students from the Jerseyville and Alton School Districts submitted name suggestions for the islands created as part of the $7.2 million Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program’s Piasa and Eagles Nest Island Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project. 2/4
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The survey results provide valuable insight to senior leaders on the strengths of the Civilian workforce, as well as gauging areas for improvement and current challenges. To our employees, if you see emails on this topic, please participate!
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The 2023 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) is an annual government-wide survey, administered by OPM, which measures federal employees' perceptions of critical work-life areas that drive employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention across the USACE workforce.
Let your voice be heard. Take the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Survey launches the week of 15 May and is open through 30 June.
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Want to learn the inner workings of a dam? The Anatomy of a Dam factsheet gives readers a quick overview of key dam characteristics. It illustrates and defines a variety of mechanisms that play a vital role in ensuring dams operate safely and as designed. #DamSafetyDay #DamSafety
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225th Engineer Brigade,
@LANationalGuard
, visited
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. Dr. Duncan Bryant, research hydraulic engineer, Coastal and Hydraulics Lab, gave Soldiers a first-hand look at ongoing research on Scalable Water Mobility Robot used to minimize exposure during high-risk missions.
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Last week, students from an #Environmental Science class at Bettendorf High School joined employees from the
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and
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on a trip to the Keithsburg Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project to learn about #ecosystem and restoration concepts. #STEM
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reps after a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Joint Simulation Environment center May 8 at
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. The $35M project will provide a modeling and simulation environment to conduct next-generation technology testing.
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Humboldt Bay is the largest protected West Coast body of water between San Francisco Bay/Puget Sound. Crews also helped out pilot observers from CA Maritime Academy ride aboard to gain experience and log necessary trips for testing with the
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for pilotage.📸Jane Favors 2/2
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two hopper dredges, the Yaquina (pictured here in the foreground) and the Essayons (pictured in the far distance), have been working this week to maintain the inner harbor and entrance channel at Humboldt Bay, located in Eureka, California. 1/2
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, Lower CT River Valley Council of Governments, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and members of
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visited several Connecticut River Hydrilla demonstration sites in preparation for the spring/summer data collection and sampling work. 1/2
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Walla Walla District's navigation locks on the Snake and Columbia rivers help provide a navigable waterway 465 miles inland from Astoria, Oregon, to Lewiston, Idaho. Their five navigation locks passed a total of 15,325,690 tons of cargo and commodities in 2020. 2/2 #DamSafety
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Fun Fact: The Little Goose navigation lock has a vertical lift of 100 feet!
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staff designed, built and operate some of the highest lift locks in the world, with an average lift of more than 100 feet. 1/2
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UPDATE: Lock & Dam 1 in Minneapolis is now open to both commercial and recreational traffic. With this opening, all St. Paul District locks and dams on the Mississippi River are back open from Lower St. Anthony through Lock & Dam 10 in Guttenberg, Iowa.
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#DYK that the #USACE shore protection program helps protect and restore shores and beaches from erosion damage? USACE will build structures, like seawalls at Enders Island in
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, plant vegetation and nourish beaches with sand to help with erosion.
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