26 Mar 2018

Corps taking safety from reactive to proactive

If you were invited to visit a Corps worksite and realized once you arrived that your colleagues were not wearing the appropriate safety gear, what would you do? Would you: Say nothing, because you’re not the senior employee on-site Wait until you got back to your office and mention it to the safety manager Mention it

14 Mar 2018

There’s more to this annual event than hooking a fish

    Make plans now to attend Kid's   Fishing Day 2018!Have you ever wanted to attend an event, but each year you end up reading about it after it’s already taken place? This was a common theme among adults I spoke with while attending the annual Kid’s Fishing Day at Hensley Lake in 2017. As I wandered around the lake taking photos and chatting

12 Mar 2018

A step-by-step pictorial of the Wildfire Debris Removal Process

26 Jan 2018

Heart of a volunteer

Deb Lewis, an environmental manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, recently returned from helping people whose homes were destroyed by October 2017 wildfires in northern California’s Wine Country. Just days before the wildfires, Lewis was in Houston as part of the Corps’ Hurricane Harvey recovery team.

24 Jan 2018

Isabella Lake DSMP moving forward

Phase II of the Sacramento District's Isabella Lake Dam Safety Modification Project will get underway this spring, but several other tasks have already been completed ...

21 Dec 2017

Maintaining inventory of Corps dams takes year-round effort

The Corps of Engineers District Operations and Dam Safety Sections are working year-round to ensure the 17 dams they oversee stay safe.

6 Oct 2017

Land surveying or reality modeling?

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District land surveying specialists are using modern technology fused together through some very creative “MacGyver-ing” to cut labor costs, improve data quality for numerous engineering disciplines, access otherwise impossible spots and keep surveyors safe from entering potentially dangerous locations.

28 Sep 2017

Corps helps return Native American remains

A team of experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently helped return the remains of two children to their Northern Arapaho tribe. The children had died at Carlisle Indian industrial School in the 1880s and were buried in a cemetery on what is now Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania.

28 Sep 2017

Sacramento District helps develop efficient regional-based permitting for the future

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory team has worked with civic leaders, federal and state agencies, and conservationists to help shape development and ecosystem preservation for perhaps the next 50 years in a huge piece of California’s Central Valley.

2 Aug 2017

The “Can-Do Team” of Bryte Yard

When staff in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District need quick, professional assistance with a task that seems way outside the box, who do they call? Bryte Yard!