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  • June

    Jeff Hunt a construction worker with Dakota Meyer Enterprises Inc., spreads and smooths dirt with a back hoe tractor to cover a waterline project at the Cheatham Lock and Dam June 16, 2014.

    Construction of new waterline nears completion at Cheatham Lock and Dam

    ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (June 16, 2014) – Construction on a project to replace the main water supply line to the Cheatham Lock and Dam facilities is near completion.
  • Maj. Brad Morgan (Right), Nashville District deputy commander, presents the “Clean Marina” flag to Hurricane Marina Owner Alan Seilbeck (Left) and Marina Manager Bill Sloan June 12, 2014.

    Hurricane Marina achieves 'Clean Marina status'

    SILVER POINT, Tenn. (June 12, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District designated Hurricane Marina at Center Hill Lake as a “Clean Marina” today during a ceremony recognizing the marina’s voluntary efforts to reduce water pollution and erosion in the Cumberland River watershed, and for promoting environmentally responsible marina and boating practices.
  • Casey Ehorn, a wetland biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Regulatory Branch, explains the Venus flytrap plant to kids at the Williamson County Junior Gardener Camp at the Agricultural Exposition Park June 3, 2014.

    Corps biologists help junior gardners grow

    FRANKLIN, Tenn. (June 4, 2013) – Several Corps employees shared their expertise today with kids participating in the 2014 Williamson County Junior Gardener Camp at the Agricultural Exposition Park.
  • Robert “Bob” Sneed, Chief of the Water Management Section, Hydrology and Hydraulics Branch, Engineering and Construction Division, is the Employee of the Month for April 2014.

    Sneed named Nashville District employee of the month for April 2014

    Bob Sneed, Commander, Corps , Corps of engineers, Chief of Water Management, Employee of the Month, Federal Service, John L. Hudson, LRN, Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, Sneed, Nashville District, Recognition, Tennessee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, USACE

  • May

    Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander(Left), and Jerry Breznican, Nashville District Emergency Management chief, brief participants of a New Madrid seismic zone rehearsal of concept exercise May 8, 2014 in Jackson, Tenn. The exercise, led by officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio river Division from Cincinnati, Ohio, provided local emergency personnel and Corps emergency managers the opportunity to walk through the mock scenario of a major earthquake in the region.

    Emergency managers map out New Madrid earthquake preparedness

    JACKSON, Tenn. (May 12, 2014) – Emergency management officials moved pictures and signs, much like game pieces on a large board game, on a 24-by-24 foot floor map of the New Madrid seismic zone May 8, 2014 at the National Guard Armory in Jackson, Tenn. The exercise simulated an emergency response in the event of a major earthquake.

  • April

    Park Rangers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and local volunteers from the Lake Cumberland pose with a group from the Wounded Warrior Outdoors program at Holcombs landing before going on a fishing trip on Lake Cumberland near Wolf Creek Dam.

    Wounded Warriors Outdoors find therapy in hunting, fishing at Lake Cumberland

    JAMESTOWN, Tenn. (April 28, 2014) – Park Rangers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and local volunteers from the Lake Cumberland area hosted a group from the Wounded Warrior Outdoors program for a fishing trip and wild turkey hunt at the Lake Cumberland State Park today.
  • Ben MacIntyre, a park ranger from J. Percy Priest Lake Resource Center and Mary Lewis, biologist, Customer Outreach and Silver Jackets coordinator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, talk with residents of the J. Percy Priest lake area at the 13th annual Nashville Earth Day Festival at Centennial Park April 19.

    Nashville District celebrates Earth Day festivities at Centennial Park

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 19, 2014) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District celebrated Earth Day with thousands of people today during the 13th annual Nashville Earth Day Festival at Centennial Park.
  • Lillian Ekem, a student from Martin Luther King high school in Nashville, explains the functions of a remote–controlled bot to Michael Zoccola, chief, geotechnical Branch at a STEM Expo sponsored by the Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub at the Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin on April 11, 2014. The bot car was developed to assist with Emergency First Responders and collect data in Combating House Fires. Zoccola and a group of technical experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District attended the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Science Expo and judged the event.

    Corps grades student projects at STEM Expo

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 14, 2014) – A group of technical experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District attended a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Science Expo as judges and also staffed an exhibit sponsored by the Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub at the Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin on April 11, 2014.
  • Mary Lewis, biologist, Customer Outreach and Silver Jackets coordinator at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Headquarters, is the Employee of the Month for February 2014.

    Lewis named February Nashville District Employee of the Month

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 4, 2014) – Mary Lewis, biologist, Customer Outreach and Silver Jackets coordinator at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Headquarters, is the Employee of the Month for February 2014.

  • March

    Nashville, TN - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Chief of Equal Employment Opportunity, Carol Haynes talks with Vanessa Web an engineering student from Texas Tech University. Web was attending the 40th annual National Society of Black Engineers Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn, March 26-29, 2014. Corporations from around the United States were represented at the conference.

    Army team interacts with STEM students at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention

    Nashville, Tenn. (March 31, 2014) - U.S. Army representatives networked with many college students at the 40th annual National Society of Black Engineers Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., March 26 - March 30, 2014.
  • Linda Adcock,Center Hill Dam project manager,from the Nashville District briefs U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' senior enlisted adviser Command Sgt. Maj. Karl J. Groninger on the foundation rehabilitation progress and construction on March 17, 2014 at the Center Hill dam resident managers office.

    USACE command sergeant major visits Nashville District

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' senior enlisted adviser Command Sgt. Maj. Karl J. Groninger visited the Nashville District March 17-18.
  • Medal of Honor recipient Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer (center) talks with participants during a break at the 3rd Annual Small Business Training Forum at the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus today in Nashville, Tenn. , March 13, 2014.Sgt. Meyer is currently the president of Dakota Meyer Enterprises, Incorporated and most recently received his first federal contract from the Corps of Engineers.

    Medal of Honor recipient motivates business leaders at Business Training Forum

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 13, 2013) – More than 266 business owners, managers and reps from as far away as California, and Texas gathered at the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus today to hear a Medal of Honor recipient speak, and to collect information on federal, state and local procurement systems during the 3rd Annual Small Business Training Forum.
  • Hydropower Plant Project Manager Randy Crabtree from the Old Hickory Dam looks on (left) and Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, Nashville District commander (Right) talks with Donovan Sohr,(center) a sophomore student from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn., during a tour at the Old Hickory dam in Hendersonville, Tenn., on Feb. 28, 2014.

    Prep student shadows Nashville District engineers for STEM experience

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 6, 2014) –A sophomore student from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn., participated in a engineer shadow program today with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Engineering Branch and shadowed Nashville District engineers.

  • February

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Park Ranger Arora Scott from the Lake Cumberland Resource center paints a boundarie line at the Wolf Creek Dam on Feb. 22, 2014.

    Corps rangers safeguarding lake boundaries through shoreline management

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 21, 2014) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Park Rangers at Old Hickory Lake and Lake Cumberland take pride in their work checking boundary markers, natural environmental protection areas and maintaining environmental wetlands around the Lake Cumberland and Old Hickory lakes.
  • A worker for the Bauer Foundation Corporation inspects a large clamshell excavator for maintenance at the ongoing foundation rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam.

    Center Hill Dam rehabilitation continues with barrier wall installation

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (Feb. 14, 2014) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s ongoing foundation rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam is making progress as work crews continue to drill deep into the main dam earthen embankment to install a subsurface concrete wall. The current efforts are the second of three major contracts from 2008 to 2017 that comprise ongoing efforts to rehabilitate Center Hill Dam.

  • January

    Army Spc. Kurt Phillip from the Operation Warfighter program at Fort Campbel places books on a shelf in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District libray on Jan. 29, 2013. Phillip works as a Library assistant and has severe arthritis resulting from multiple operations to his knees which will potentially cause him to be medically discharged. Operation Warfighter is the first professional transition program active wounded warriors can experience and USACE’s Nashville District is applying it on a group scale. Nashville District partnered with Fort Campbell office where district personnel initiated an active recruiting campaign, interviewing wounded warriors at the base’s WTU for OWF intern positions. (USACE Photo by Mark A. Rankin)

    Corps helps Wounded Warriors transition back into work

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 29, 2014) – Wounded Warriors from the Operation Warfighter Program employ job internships to ease their transition from military service to civilian life.

  • December

    US. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Park Ranger, Bobby Bartlett, a seasonal ranger at Dale Hollow Lake received the Exceptional Service Award from the Mayor of Clay County, Dale Reagan and a Water Safety Award from the Kentucky State Police at Trooper Island.

    Corps Ranger receives Water Safety Awards for service in Kentucky

    ALBANY, Ky. -- A U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Nashville District Park Ranger received two awards for his volunteer service with youth in the corps Water Safety program at the Kentucky State Police Trooper Island Camp.
  • Lt. Col. John Hudson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents outgoing President Bryon Olsen a plaque after being installed as president of the Society of American Military Engineers Nashville Post during a meeting Dec. 18, 2013 in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tenn. (USACE photo by Mark Rankin)

    Hudson installed as SAME Nashville Post president

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 18, 2013)–The Nashville Post of the Society of American Military Engineers installed its new president today during an installation ceremony in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Park Ranger Sondra Carmen from Dale Hollow Lake teaches students about water safety at the Putnam County Family YMCA in Cookeville, Tenn. (USACE photo by Mark Rankin)

    YMCA, Corps teaches youth Water Safety

    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Dec 16, 2013) – A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville district park ranger at Dale Hollow Lake joined forces with the Putnam County Family YMCA today to teach second graders about water safety.

  • November

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 27, 2013) – Bonnie Jagoditz, assistant district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville Office of Counsel, is the district employee of the month for October 2013.

    Jagoditz named Nashville District Employee of the Month for October 2013

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 27, 2013) – Bonnie Jagoditz, assistant district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville Office of Counsel, is the district employee of the month for October 2013.