When natural disasters strike, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, deploys its temporary Emergency Power Planning and Response Team to provide electricity and hope to communities in distress. One of seven Emergency PRTs operated nationwide by the Corps, […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) South Atlantic Division (SAD) formally commissioned Task Force Virgin Islands Puerto Rico (TFVIPR) in a ceremony at the historic Fort Castillo San Cristóbal in the heart of San Juan, Jan 23. Brig. Gen.
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On January 15, 2024, we marked the 15th anniversary of an event that has become emblematic of extraordinary heroism and survival – the “Miracle on the Hudson.” America watched as U.S. Airways Flight 1549’s dramatic descent into the Hudson River,
2024 will mark five years since the historic flood of 2019 in Kansas City and the surrounding region. Water levels on the Missouri River reached heights not seen for decades and caused an estimated $2.9 billion in damages across the
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Portadam® Inc., the national water control solutions company, announced that FM Approvals has certified the company’s FloodDefender® flood risk mitigation technology, successfully meeting and exceeding the rigorous ANSI/FM 2510 series of tests. “With more and more commercial, public, and industrial
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Nicholas Josefik, an industrial engineer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), was recently recognized at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Under Secretary’s Awards Ceremony for leading a team in the development
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While there may not be any place like home for the holidays, sometimes there are other places to be. When much of the island of Maui and the world were opening brightly wrapped presents and sitting down to holiday dinner
In the week leading up to Hurricane Hilary – the first tropical storm to make landfall in Southern California in more than 80 years – the wheels were already in motion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Los
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About 65 homeless individuals living in unauthorized areas near the Santa Fe Dam received shelter prior to tropical storm Hurricane Hilary’s landfall in Southern California, thanks to the efforts of multiple local, county and federal agencies. About 35 law enforcement
Torrential downpours in mid-July inundated New England with massive amounts of rainfall. Vermont and New Hampshire received the largest impacts and the water levels rose behind all of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) dams in the Upper Connecticut
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