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unusual facts about Army Corps of Engineers



1959 Yellowstone earthquake

Fearing that the pressure caused by the rising water would result in a catastrophic flood, the Army Corps of Engineers began to cut a 250 ft (76.2 m) wide and 14 ft (4.3 m) deep channel into the slide.

Arch Creek

The Army Corps of Engineers wanted to blow up the bridge, or re-route the creek.

Ashbritt

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded AshBritt a contract worth $850 million to remove Hurricane Katrina debris in Mississippi, with an option to increase the dollar amount to one billion dollars.

Biloxi Wade-Ins

Before the beaches were desegregated homeowners claimed the beaches as private property, and despite the fact the beaches were built by the Army Corps of Engineers using taxpayer funds, African Americans were restricted to designated areas of the beachfront.

Carnobacterium pleistocenium

These bacterial cells were discovered in a tunnel dug by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s in order to allow scientists to study the permafrost in preparation for the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation

Because of this the Army Corps of Engineers reported to the Congress about the most feasible plans to use all of the waters afforded to it by the 1950 treaty.

Ferdinand P. Beer

His work in this field included support by Boeing, NASA, the Chemical Corps of the U.S. Army, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Frank Padavan

Padavan spent 30 years as a reserve member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, attaining the rank of Colonel.

Frederick E. Humphreys

After graduation and commissioning, he was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers and sent to Fort Riley, Kansas where he worked in bridge construction.

G.L. Christian and associates v. US

The Army Corps of Engineers signed a contract with G.L. Christian and Associates to build 2,000 housing units for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana, under the "Capehart Act".

Gary Pihl

The concert was to raise awareness and funds to stop the Army Corps of Engineers construction of the Lake Sonoma Dam project in Geyserville's Dry Creek Valley.

Godiva's Hymn

It was originally created by the Army Corps of Engineers

Great Bridge Bridge

It was constructed in 2004 by the Army Corps of Engineers and operated by the City of Chesapeake.

Hatteras, North Carolina

The tear was subsequently repaired and restored by sand dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Hemet-Ryan Airport

The airport was inactivated in December 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program, the airfield was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers.

Henry Peter Bosse

By the 1880s Bosse is employed as a draughtsman and cartographer with the Army Corps of Engineers at Rock Island, Illinois.

Hocking River

There are currently river access points for fishing and for canoes and kayaks at Logan, Ohio, at Hocking College at Nelsonville, Ohio, on Hamley Run Road northwest of The Plains, Ohio, at West State Street Park in Athens, Ohio, at County Road 24A near Canaanville, Ohio, and at the Army Corps of Engineers' Belleville Locks and Dam recreational access point on Frost Road near Coolville, Ohio.

Kooskia National Fish Hatchery

Construction began in 1966 by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Lake Placid: The Final Chapter

Clear Lake is being corralled by the Army Corps of Engineers, with a 10,000 voltages electric barrier quarantine to lock the crocodiles in the lake, purposing to let the crocodiles starve and die off, in spite of that fact that world's population of crocodiles is decreasing day by day.

Louisville and Portland Canal

Radical Republican control of Congress meant that the Army Corps of Engineers was finally allowed to take over improvements for the canal in 1867.

Mount Hope Bay

Mount Hope Bay contains a 35 foot deep shipping channel maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of their Fall River Harbor project.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

Later used by Army Corps of Engineers in the Great Lakes.

Norfleet Giddings Bone

Upon leaving the Army for a second time in 1932, Bone continued to work in the fields of landscape design and civil engineering for the National Park Service (NPS), the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Texas State Parks Board (now the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department).

North American AJ Savage

Both squadrons frequently provided photographic mapping for agencies outside the Navy like the Army Map Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Agriculture.

Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building

It houses offices of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Contract Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Peace Corps, Railroad Retirement Board and Social Security Administration.

Port of Kansas City

The Army Corps of Engineers is supposed to have a shipping channel of at least 6 ft.

Portland Rose Festival

During Fleet Week, ships from United States Navy, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and the Royal Canadian Navy dock along the seawall of Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Berry and Meatyard's book was a major contribution to saving the gorge from destruction by a proposed Army Corps of Engineers dam.

Richard Woolsey

Prior to taking his position in the NID, Woolsey was lead counsel for the Army Corps of Engineers and later sat on the Defense Policy Board.

Robertsville, Tennessee

In the 1930s Cross Spring was dammed by a local farmer to form a small lake that the Army Corps of Engineers lined with concrete during World War II to convert it to a large swimming pool.

Roger R. Bate

He served with the US Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star.

Rosemont Copper

As of April 2013, the final permit before mining operations can begin is the Clean Water Act Section 404 permit, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, which is expected as part of the Forest Service's Record of Decision.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, State Historic Preservation Office, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Forest Service Southwestern Regional Office are still completing their analysis.

S-mine

During the military occupation of Germany and the postwar rebuilding of Europe, the American Army Corps of Engineers, the newly established French government, and the British Ministry of Defence engaged in one of the most prolonged and successful mine-clearing operations throughout Western Europe.

U.S. Route 6 in Connecticut

The Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, and Federal Highway Administration favored a southerly alignment (Alternative 133 18/25) that would cut through residential and commercial areas as well as the Hop River's adjoining wetlands.

W. R. Byron Airport

It was inactivated on August 4, 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program, then declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945.

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

Willamette Falls

The locks were sold by the Willamette Falls Canal and Locks Company to the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1915.


see also

Frederick Clarke

Frederick J. Clarke (1915–2002), civil and military engineer with the United States Army Corps of Engineers

George Wackenhut

He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and witnessed the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Inflatable boat

In 1848 General George Cullum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.

Kanaskat, Washington

This lasted until 1959, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were forced to build the Northern Pacific yet another station directly northwest of its postwar structure (due to the line change caused by the Corps of Engineer's Howard A. Hanson Dam at Eagle Gorge).

Oologah, Oklahoma

In 1963, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the fist phase of Oologah Lake.

Sheyenne River

US Army Corps of Engineers officials stated that Lisbon was forced to hire contractors from Willmar, Minnesota, some five hours away, due to the lack of availability of local equipment.

SORBA

Currently SORBA Woodstock has relationships with local land managers such as the City of Woodstock, City of Canton, Cherokee Recreation and Parks Authority, Department of Natural Resources, Boy Scouts of America, Cherokee County Water Authority, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Allatoona.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

The Flood Control Act of 1965 (FCA 1965), enacted after Hurricane Betsy flooded large sections of New Orleans, mandated the US Army Corps of Engineers as the Federal agency responsible for levee design and construction.