Group photo of Seattle District's debris recovery crew MV PUGET, flanked by (left) Brig. Gen. Jonathan Byrom, director of Army Safety and U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center Commanding general, and (right) Brig. Gen. Geoff Van Epps, commander of USACE, Northwestern Division. Seattle District's Commander Kathryn Sanborn stands center. Byrom recognized the crew with the Army Risk Management Award at the USACE-owned and operated Lake Washington Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Locks), Seattle, Washington, Sept. 21.

Aerial photo of Lake Washington Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. The Chittenden Locks will launch an extended gate-closure schedule to facilitate demolition, concrete construction, and installation and the commissioning of the new miter gates. The first round of gate closures is scheduled to begin Oct. 16, 2023. (Courtesy photo)

Seattle District welcomes Colonel Kathryn P. Sanborn as new commander.

Four rivers, four counties and nine levees. The busy emergency levee repair season meant to safeguard life and property in Western Washington is nearing its end, but work remains before the start of the fall flood season.

Final repairs have commenced on flood-damaged Skagit River levees, turning the once quiet Skagit River Basin into a bustling construction scene of dump trucks, excavators and workers spanning five work sites and three diking districts simultaneously.

An excavator demolishes a screenhouse on the Lewis Brown Research Farm in Corvallis, Oregon, kicking off construction of a nearly year-long project for the Agricultural Research Service’s National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), a gene bank established to collect, distribute and evaluate plant germplasm, such as seeds and other tissues that enable plant reproduction.