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  • July

    Splitting a levee to make it stronger: Installing cutoff walls

    By now, just about everyone in the Sacramento & Natomas regions should know they’re living in one of the most at-risk areas in the nation for flooding. The region is literally ringed with levees that prevent neighborhoods from becoming Venice without the gondolas.The potential for catastrophic flooding is why U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento
  • May

    The Army’s recreation mission goes back further than you think

    It might surprise you to hear the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the largest providers of outdoor recreation in the Nation. If it doesn’t, you must be one of the 260 million folks who visit USACE recreation areas every year. But why would the Army have any recreation mission at all? The Army’s involvement in the Nation’s legacy of
  • Service with a smile

    Bob Stout's career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers technically ended in 2007, but he continues to support the mission he loves.
  • August

    Sacramento musician entertains, regains first love

    Maybe he’s living inside a familiar Hollywood script: boy finds love, loses love, survives sobering wakeup call and regains love. On most weekends, this red-haired whirlwind can be seen playing red-hot fiddle tunes in the Sacramento Celtic rock band One Eyed Reilly. Watching him perform, it’s hard to believe St. John Fraser’s sobering wakeup call came in the form of a cancerous brain tumor detected four years ago.