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  • October

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    So … exactly what is going on out there?

    An extensive construction site filled with steadily churning heavy equipment has sprung up along

  • April

    Natomas levee improvements hit high gear

    With the Sacramento River to its west, and the American River to the south, the Natomas Basin sits at the confluence of two major waterways. Streams, creeks and tributaries mark the northern and eastern boundary. Water surrounds the basin’s perimeter. Levees help keep flowing waters in their channels and out of growing neighborhoods, where approximately 100,000 people live, but a breach to any section of the 42 miles of levee surrounding Natomas could be catastrophic.

  • May

    Firefighters attend a ground breaking ceremony for renovations to their fire station at Military Ocean Terminal Concord in Concord, Calif., April 16, 2014. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is working with MOTCO to modernize infrastructure throughout the critical military port.

    Renovations begin for MOTCO fire station

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has begun renovating a fire station at Military Ocean Terminal Concord near Concord as part of a larger plan to modernize the installation by 2020.

  • December

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District levee work is underway Aug. 21, 2013 along the north bank of the American River, just east of its confluence with the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal in north Sacramento, Calif. Complicating the project to install 3,300 linear feet of seepage wall in the levee are land easement rights, an inactive railroad line and an assortment of buried utilities that obstructed the Corps’ work near here more than a decade ago

    Sacramento levee fixes: A year of progress

    Sacramento is among the most at-risk cities in America for catastrophic flooding. An aging system of dams, weirs, bypasses and levees work together to reduce flood risk for the city. But that system, just like a chain, is only as strong as its weakest link, and needs comprehensive modernization.

  • September

    Construction continues on the Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway control structure in Folsom, Calif., shown Sept. 10, 2013. The Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway project is a joint effort of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to reduce flood risk for the Sacramento area and improve Folsom Dam’s safety.

    Inside the construction of Folsom Dam’s second dam

    In California’s Sacramento Valley, residents are watching Folsom Dam's new auxiliary spillway project transform from rock and dirt into a massive, life-saving flood risk reduction project.