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89 unusual facts about United States 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.

1969 in the Vietnam War

Operation Camden was an Australian Army military operation in support of the 501 Land Clearing Company, United States Army Corps of Engineers who were undertaking land clearing operations in the Hat Dich Area.

Afghan National Police

The United States Army Corps of Engineers is building nearly 200 modern police stations for the Afghan National Police.

Alan Handley

His acting career came to an end with the advent of World War II, during which he served in the Army Engineers.

Arch Creek

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

Arden L. Bement, Jr.

Bement is also a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

Following Hurricane Katrina in August 2009, as the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Advanced Contracting Initiative (ACI) contractor for U.S. Region 3, AshBritt was the Initial Response contractor for both Louisiana and Mississippi.

Battle of Noemfoor

Allied airfield repair and construction work by the RAAF and U.S. Army Engineers began on 2 July.

Blinder

The term "navigational blinders" refers to the United States Army Corps of Engineers policy which prohibited the Corps from considering environmental, health and safety, or any other features when deciding on whether to issue a permit, subject to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Sections 9 and 10.

Cal Holman

He then served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Carl Garner

His second wife, Ima Jean "Jean" Reedy, also worked for the Corps of Engineers.

During Carl Garner's over 57 years of public service working for the Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, he headed preparations for the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy and introduced innumerable families to the outdoors.

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.

Choluteca, Choluteca

The bridge, built in the 1930s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, survived the severe Hurricane Mitch of 1998, although the road it was connected to did not.

Construction Management Association of America

The Leadership Forum is designed for construction owners, both federal owners, such as the General Services Administration or United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and private owners, such as universities or commercial construction owners.

Cooperating Associations

The US Army Corps of Engineers currently works with 3 cooperating agreements.

Effects of Hurricane Georges in Puerto Rico

The United States Army Corps of Engineers purchased 1 million pounds of ice and gallons of water for distribution.

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.

Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project to manage and cleanup environmental contamination that resulted from early United States Atomic Energy Commission activities.

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.

Fund for Peace

The Fund for Peace has also partnered with Logos Technologies, the United States Institute of Peace, the United States Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, the U.S. State Department Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers to create a metrics framework for peacekeeping.

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.

General Survey Act

The president assigned responsibility for the surveys to the Corps of Engineers (USACE).

George Dern

The army's Corps of Engineers also began several important public works

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.

Grumman Gulfstream I

United States Army - The United States Army Corps of Engineers operated a single Gulfstream I (with a civilian colour scheme and registration) between 1961 and 1981.

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.

Hobbs Army Airfield

Other military representatives soon followed, including those of the Army Corps of Engineers who would be involved in construction.

Hurricane recovery in North Carolina

The installation or removal along the beach require approval from CAMA and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

J. George Stewart

He was special engineer to the lands division of the United States Department of Justice and Corps of Engineers in 1952/1953, and was a civil engineer in Hollywood, Florida in 1954.

Jack Frye

Frye enlisted in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1921, and was discharged as a corporal in 1922.

Jack Keahey

Keahey was a visible spokesman for his levee district operation, which earned repeated "Outstanding Maintenance Awards" from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Jones Inlet

Shifting sand bars and shallow waters have made the inlet treacherous for boaters to navigate, which prompted New York State to allocate $7.6 million of funding for the United States Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the inlet in 2008.

Kooskia National Fish Hatchery

Construction began in 1966 by the Army Corps of Engineers.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

Following the disaster, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the County of Los Angeles built a flood control system of catch basins and concrete storm drains, designed to prevent a repeat of the 1934 disaster.

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.

Lee A. Johnson

Upon graduating from KU, Johnson served two years on active duty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and then became an insurance salesman for his the family business.

Lee Tafanelli

Tafanelli joined the Kansas Army National Guard in 1980 and receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers through Army ROTC at Pittsburg State University in 1982.

LOGCAP

In support of a United States Third Army mission, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) used LOGCAP to contract for the construction and maintenance of two petroleum pipelines systems in Southwest Asia.

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.

Main Navy and Munitions Buildings

At the end of World War I, the Munitions Building housed technical branches, including the Quartermaster General, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Ordnance Corps,

McConnell Air Force Base

On 15 November the field was officially transferred to the District Engineer, Seventh Service Command at Omaha, Nebraska who assumed jurisdiction over the field, pending disposition, while the 4156th AAF Base Unit was discontinued on the same day.

Moriches Inlet

The United States Army Corps of Engineers took over the maintenance of the inlets and jetties in the 1980s.

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.

Mount Laguna Air Force Station

Receiving the Defense Secretary’s approval on July 21, the Air Force directed the United States Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

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

New Almaden

Some structures were built later by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and there is a memorial honoring the Civilian Conservation Corps firefighters who were stationed there for a time.

Norman Sakamoto

Sakamoto is a registered civil engineer and a licensed general contractor, and worked for the City and County of Los Angeles and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

Port of Kansas City

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

Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

EPA is responsible for issuing permits that regulate the disposal of materials at sea (except for dredged material disposal, for which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible).

Regulatory taking

In 1985, the Supreme Court applied its regulatory takings analysis to the Clean Water Act, which prohibits any discharge of dredged or fill materials into "navigable waters"--defined as the "waters of the United States"--unless authorized by a permit issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps).

Remembrances of the Mountain Meadows massacre

Prior to the digging, the area had been tested and examined by experts from Brigham Young University, the U.S. Forest Service and The Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) is a computerized model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the National Weather Service (NWS), to estimate storm surge depths resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes.

Seufert Park

Seufert County Park is a public park located just east of The Dalles, Oregon, United States, and is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Shinnecock Inlet

West Hampton Dunes was incorporated in 1993 specifically to have legal standing in the skirmishes with Corps of Engineers regarding the practice.

Shobal Vail Clevenger, Jr.

Returning soon after the beginning of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and served in the engineer corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant.

Sockeye salmon

As an early indication of the unexpectedly high sockeye run in 2010, on July 2, 2010, the United States Army Corps of Engineers reported over 300,000 sockeye had passed over Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.

Spruce 1

In 2005, the United States Army Corps of Engineers began reviewing the permit application by Hobet Mining, Inc. to construct this mine.

Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River

When a survey by the United States Army Corps of Engineers showed the harbor at Yaquina Bay to be deeper than had been supposed, interest in development of the area boomed.

Stewart, British Columbia

The area around the Portland Canal was again explored in 1896 by Captain D.D. Gaillard of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (after whom the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal was later named).

Surfside, California

Every few years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must work to replenish and rebuild the beach, dredging and refilling with millions of cubic yards of sand.

Surveylab

A major user of the ikeGPS is the United States Army Corps of Engineers who have deployed the ikeGPS across a range of applications, for example after the 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans – so that engineers could send back information about the scale of problems to be dealt with at different sites, and in Afghanistan and Iraq – for rapid mapping of infrastructure.

Trough Creek State Park

But Trough Creek State Park adjoins state forest land and land owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

Union Army Balloon Corps

Wise was, however, taken seriously enough by the Topographical Engineers to be asked to build a balloon.

United States military divers

Army Engineer Divers- Trained in underwater construction, salvage, demolitions, hydrographic survey, hyperbaric chamber operation, beach and river recon, bridge recon, underwater cutting and welding, side scan sonar operations, mine and countermine operations, search and recovery operations and ships husbandry operations.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense

Funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is handled by the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development

It is also responsible for the multi-billion dollar budget of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Interior Department's U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

USS LST-356

Beaching again on the 13th, the tank landing ship, helped by Army engineers, started to unload the remainder of her own cargo, and her crew completed the job on the 14th.

USS LST-987

She primarily performs maintenance dredging of federal navigation channels for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

White Sands Missile Range

1944, February: Major General Gladeon M Barnes, chief of the Technical Division of the Office of Chief of Ordnance in Washington, sent teams of the War Department and the Ordnance Department of the Corps of Engineers to look for a US site for missile research.

Willamette Falls

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

William F. Cercone

Cercone also served in a number of other public attorney positions: special deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, special assistant to the United States Attorney General, and attorney for the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

William T. Piper

Piper served in the Spanish-American War and World War I, in the latter as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.


Bathymetry

In the United States the United States Army Corps of Engineers performs or commissions most surveys of navigable inland waterways, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) performs the same role for ocean waterways.

Canadian River

In 1845 the river was explored by Lieutenants James William Abert and William G. Peck of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project is a video documentary that investigates the controversial Tocks Island Dam Project, a plan proposed in 1965 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a dam across the Delaware River six miles upstream from the Delaware Water Gap.

Donald H. Magnuson

He also served on the Public Works Committee with oversight over the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and the Atomic Energy Commission.

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.

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Jo-Ellen Darcy

During her seven years on the EPW Committee staff, she worked on the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the committee's oversight of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Everglades restoration.

Owl Woman

It was while at the fort in 1845 that topographical engineer Lieutenant James W. Abert asked Owl Woman to sit for him as the subject of a watercolor painting.

Pennsylvania Route 59

This highway also serves the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' Kinzua Dam and FirstEnergy's Seneca Pumped Storage Generating Station.

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.

The Flats

Early settlers included Lorenzo Carter, whose land holdings included much of what makes up today's East Bank entertainment district, including Whiskey Island, which was created when the mouth of the river was straightened by the Corps of Engineers.