24 Nov 2014

Music, friendship frame choral conductor’s memories of Sacramento District

With plans to retire soon, Bob Fletcher can recite from a mental catalog of names, faces and performances that is surely as big as his huge collection of photos and recordings. An engineering tech with the Sacramento District, Fletcher has conducted the district chorus for more than 20 years.

29 Sep 2014

Corps parks in California celebrate National Public Lands Day

Nearly 1,000 volunteers pitched in at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District parks across central California for the 21st annual National Public Lands Day Sept. 27.

2 Sep 2014

Gifts and givers -- a Corps engineer in Africa

He traveled to Tanzania, Africa, on a mission to help improve a home for orphans but returned feeling those children gave him a much greater gift – a lesson in strength, humility and kindness. The recent two-week trip to Tanzania was the second such service trip to Africa for Brian Poole, a supervisory engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District engineering division.

18 Aug 2014

Sacramento District archaeologist helps preserve “layer cake” of history

Over 1,900 acres of Northern California property located between Folsom and El Dorado Hills is like “a layer cake of modern history,” according to Erin Hess, an archaeologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Regulatory Division. “This area includes everything from remnants of placer mining, hydraulic mining, dredge mining, dairy operations, roadside inns from the 1800s all the way up to Cold War-era missile research facilities,” said Hess.

1 Aug 2014

Practice makes perfect as Corps conducts emergency exercise at Martis Creek Lake

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District hosted a tabletop emergency exercise for Martis Creek Dam July 30 to bring together representatives from more than a dozen federal, state and local agencies to discuss what their response would and should be during an emergency.

9 Jun 2014

Presidio upgrades critical to defense language training mission

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District manages construction on several major projects at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, Calif. The program incorporates the latest energy and water conservation technologies in order to operate more efficiently and in a sustainable, environmentally friendly manner. Most recently, the Corps broke ground on a new dining facility March 17, 2014, that is designed to feed up to 1300 personnel over a 90 minute period. The Corps is also constructing a new general instruction building for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and is renovating the school’s cultural center. Both projects will be completed August 2014.

21 Apr 2014

Pine Flat Lake to host wounded veterans, families

Offering a laidback day of free fishing, food and fun -- wounded veterans and their families are invited to take part in Take a Warrior Fishing May 3, 2014, at Pine Flat Lake, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park near Piedra.

24 Mar 2014

Corps completes Monterey groundwater cleanup project ahead of schedule

The Sacramento District has completed an $18 million groundwater cleanup environmental restoration project at the former Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Monterey, Calif., about 15 years and $4.5 million ahead of schedule.

2 Dec 2013

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.

23 Oct 2013

Sutter Basin study nears final Corps approval

The Sacramento District’s Sutter Basin Pilot Feasibility Study hit its stride under the Corps’ new, faster planning process. Now it's ready for its final review after being approved Oct. 22 by the Corps’ civil works review board.