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  • January

    Construction crews work in darkness--when energy demand is lowest--on a stretch of American River levee near the California State University-Sacramento campus Sept. 12, 2012 to close a 900-foot-long gap in a seepage cutoff wall underneath high power lines. The Corps has built more than 20 miles of seepage walls into American River levees since 2000. Areas where construction was complicated by utilities, bridges or power lines were set aside for later construction. The project is part of the American River Common Features project, a joint flood risk reduction effort between the Corps, the state’s Central Valley Flood Protection Board/Department of Water Resources and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.

    Sacramento levee project earns 2012 Flood Control Project of the Year award

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District and its contractor, Magnus Pacific Corporation, will be recognized with the American Society of Civil Engineers Sacramento Section 2012 Flood Control Project of the Year award for their work on an American River levee project north of the California State University-Sacramento campus during a ceremony Feb. 20 in Sacramento, Calif.
  • Gen. Robert W. Cone, Army Training and Doctrine commander, predicts the role of aviation will become larger as the force becomes smaller. Cone spoke at the annual AUSA aviation symposium and exhibition at National Harbor in Oxen Hill, Md., Jan. 10, 2013. (U.S. Army courtesy photo/Released)

    Hill Air Force Base child development center receives LEED-Silver designation

    The new child development center became the first LEED-certified project at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, receiving the official designation of LEED-Silver during a ceremony Jan. 10. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversaw construction of the facility.
  • Advanced weather and channel flow data shared via instant communications between water management agencies is critical to California’s Central Valley during an active flood season. (U.S. Army photo illustration by Robert Kidd/Released)

    Coordinated dam releases key to reducing winter storm flood threat

    The weather and geography that make California’s Central Valley a world-class agricultural machine also fuels the potential for disastrous flooding – conditions constantly gauged by the water management section of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.
  • This image from the "Civil works transformation" video (http://bit.ly/UojcHX) shows the Civil Works transformation fact sheet outlining how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is transforming its civil works program to best serve the public, meet the nation's water resource needs and help the Corps remain relevant in the 21st century.

    Army Corps to transform civil works program

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is transforming its civil works program to best serve the public, meet the nation's water resource needs and help the Corps remain relevant in the 21st century.

  • December

    Kim Carsell, planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, visits News10’s studios in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 13, 2012, as part of the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s Leadership Sacramento program. Carsell graduated from the program Dec. 13, 2012. (Photo courtesy of Kim Carsell)

    Leadership Sacramento turns Corps planner into community leader

    Kim Carsell, a planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, is now a graduate of the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s Leadership Sacramento program and helped complete its largest-ever community service project: building an amphitheater for Sacramento educational non-profit Soil Born Farms.
  • A side view of the new general instruction building at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, Calif., shown April 19, 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversaw construction of the building, used by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to teach military personnel foreign languages.

    In-house design helps transform California military post

    Since 2008, the Sacramento District has all but transformed the Presidio of Monterey, recently overseeing construction on three general instruction buildings for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. At the close of 2012, construction continues on yet another general instruction building and design for new facilities is nearing completion.

  • November

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    Corps identifies selected Isabella Lake Dam modernization plan

    It was also in March of 1953 that the new Isabella Lake main and auxiliary dams were completed after five years of construction, and began serving Kern County and the surrounding cities with flood risk management, irrigation and hydroelectric use. Nearly 60 years later, they continue to serve those purposes, having helped prevent flooding in downstream communities at least 18 times. But today, Isabella Lake’s dams need an upgrade. A Corps-wide survey of its dams in 2005 put Isabella Lake Dam near the top of its list of highest at-risk dams. The Corps identified significant hydrologic, seismic and seepage issues.
  • Linda Finley, deputy for project management for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, speaks to students at Hiram W. Johnson High School in Sacramento, Calif., during a science, technology, engineering and mathematics - or STEM - event Nov. 9, 2012. The district hosted the STEM event for 125 students, discussing STEM-related degrees and careers, and providing three fun and team-focused engineering challenges. “This event is really special,” said Finley. “Coming here as a graduate of Johnson High, Class of 1976, to come back to this school and see the tremendous changes, and incredible support for students that have a skill set towards math and science - it's just such a wonderful, warm feeling for me.”

    Planting a seed for STEM

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At 8.0, the building's top floor fell, and the looks of worry intensified. As the ground below the building continued to shake - increasing to 10.0 on the Richter scale - everyone waited for the inevitable. Nearly 30 seconds after the ground initially began to shake, it happened; the building crumbled but everyone still
  • Philip Golia’s work clothes have changed quite a bit since this photo of him serving with an Army route clearance team in Afghanistan. He is now a member of the maintenance team at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District’s Black Butte Lake near Orland, Calif.

    Wounded warrior works back to wellness at Corps park in Orland

    Wounded warrior Philip Golia is working his way back to health at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's Black Butte Lake near Orland, Calif.

  • August

    Zebra mussels pose a formidable risk to native lake species and recreation.

    Boaters can save their favorite waters – and their boats!

    Central California boaters and fisherman are being asked to take quick action to save their favorite lakes and rivers from a Western-moving invasion of smelly, damaging, sharp-shelled pests – Zebra and Quagga mussels.

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