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  • May

    From left to right are Rudy and Sonia Delizo with daughter Monina Isaac.

    Monina’s Army

    ‘Army’ and ‘family’ are two words that share a single significant feeling for the Delizo family, Filipino-Americans in Elk Grove whose roots in America and the U.S. Army began in World War II.

  • April

    Learning about a commercial biodiversity mitigation site in Galt, California, an interagency team visits a 495-acre project operated by Westervelt Ecological Services. From left to right are Matt Gause, Westervelt senior ecologist; Sophie Menard, University of Versailles, France; Travis Hemmen, Westervelt market development specialist; Melissa France and Kaitlyn Pascus, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory specialists; and Ali Dunn, California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

    French grad student studies California biodiversity

    When a doctoral student from the University of Versailles needed to understand how America balances urban development with natural preservation, she visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.
  • Karl Mai stands on the same beach from which he left Vietnam in 1981 as one of the fleeing “Boat People.” Behind him is a bamboo fishing boat like the one he and 18 others crowded into for the nighttime escape to Hong Kong. This photo was taken in August 2012 when Mai and his family revisited Vietnam.

    Sacramento engineer came to America among Vietnam’s “Boat People”

    More than 30 years ago, 19 villagers escaped Vietnam at night aboard a 19-foot bamboo fishing boat and headed into the open ocean toward Hong Kong. Karl Mai, a 17-year-old high school senior, and a few of his classmates were in that boat – leaving behind everyone and everything they knew for the hope of freedom and a better life.

  • March

    West Sacramento levee road ready for action

    On the surface, South River Road may look like any other newly-paved thoroughfare along the riverfront in West Sacramento, California. But when you look deeper, this two-lane, 2,200-foot stretch of road, separating the Sacramento River from residential neighborhoods, serves a greater purpose other than catering to riverine travelers—it has the potential to save thousands of lives during a high water event.
  • Shauna England Weinmann (right) and Richard Marmolejo with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversee painting of one of three Tainter gates March 3, 2015, at the district's 52-year-old dam at New Hogan Lake in Valley Springs, California. A $6.7 million project will replace nearly every moving part except the large, curved panels of the Tainter gates themselves— including additions such as environmentally-friendly paint and lighting, new water seals, and an electric hoist system.

    New gates for Corps' New Hogan Dam spillway

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is in the process of refurbishing three Tainter gates at New Hogan Dam in Valley Springs, California.