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  • December

    Charles Jeung, Engineer for Dam Safety for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District and Randle Goss, Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor for Black Butte Dam work to reseat the bulkhead gate after inspecting it.

    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.

  • November

    image - Bonny Croco

    Mommy works in the castle

    Anyone who gets email in the Sacramento District should recognize the name Bonny Croco. Anytime there is a problem with the Corps’ financial management system, CEFMS, Croco is the first to sound an email alert. She’s also the go-to resource for folks trying to learn the ins and outs of CEFMS.

  • October

    Children fishing in the distance during a free fishing event.

    The amazing power of fourth grade: FREE parks passes

    Fourth-graders can have FREE access to all federal parks and lands for one year

  • 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.

  • September

    Grave markers located at the cemetery on Carlisle Barracks show where the remains of two Arapaho children were located and disinterred in August 2017. The marked area around the buried remains represents the excavation area.

    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.