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  • June

    Melanie Leslie, geologist, Civil Design Branch Engineering Division for the Nashville District, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Employee of the Month for May 2015.

    Nashville District names Leslie employee of the month for May 2015

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June. 29, 2015) – Melanie Leslie, geologist in the Civil Design Branch and Engineering Division, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Employee of the Month for May 2015.

  • May

    A concrete barrier wall is being constructed in the Wolf Creek Dam embankment May 2, 2012.

    Nashville District highlights its notable projects leading into National Dam Safety Awareness Day

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 29, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has two notable engineering projects to its credit in recent years to stop seepage through the embankments of Wolf Creek Dam in Jamestown, Ky., and Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn. In conjunction with National Dam Safety Awareness Day May 31, 2015, the district is highlighting the major effort it took to construct concrete barrier walls deep into the foundations of these dams.
  • Linda Adcock (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Center Hill Dam Safety project manager assists Tennessee State Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver place a ceremonial concrete form into a small-scale model commemorating the completion of the Center Hill Dam Barrier Wall Project May 18, 2015 on the work platform of the dam.

    Ceremony marks completion of Center Hill Dam barrier wall

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (May 18, 2015) – Officials celebrated the completion of a barrier wall in the main dam embankment of Center Hill Dam during a ceremony today at the work platform on top of the dam. The $115 million foundation barrier wall is a key component of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Center Hill Dam Safety Remediation Project.

  • February

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb 27, 2015) – Jimmy Waddle, chief of Engineering and Construction Branch, Nashville District (right) talks with Michael Lee a sophomore student from Montgomery Bell Academy. Lee participated in an engineer shadow program with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District engineers to learn more about the jobs and educational requirements of the career field.

    Prep student shadows Nashville District engineers

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2015) – A local high school sophomore shadowed a number of very experienced engineers today at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to learn more about the jobs and educational requirements of the career field.

  • November

    Center Hill Power Plant Superintendent Jody Craig, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, (right) leads the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, Brig. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser (center) and Lt. Col. John L. Hudson Nashville District commander,(left)on a tour of the Center Hill Dam Power Plant Nov. 19, 2014. This was Kaiser's first visit to the district since taking command September 2014. He also toured the Kentucky Lock Addition Project in Grand Rivers, Ky and the Nashville District Headquarters.

    Kaiser gets general overview of Nashville District construction projects

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 19, 2014) – The Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander visited two Nashville District projects for the first time today to interact with project managers and engineers, and to recognize Corps of Engineers employees for their professionalism and excellence.

  • October

    Corps of Engineers officials witness the testing of the model hydropower turbine Oct. 8, 2014 at a Voith Hydro laboratory in York, Pa., to ensure it meets required specifications before the manufacturing process and work to modernize the power house begins at Center Hill Dam in Lancaster, Tenn.

    Hydropower model tests generate positive results for Center Hill rehab project

    YORK, Pa. (Oct. 10, 2014) – Corps experts witnessed a series of tests this week on a “small-scale” turbine model in a laboratory at Voith Hydro Inc. The tests were completely successful and the positive results will keep the Center Hill Hydropower Rehabilitation Project schedule on track.

  • July

    Adam Walker, Project Manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition briefs a tour group about the construction during a visit to the Kentucky Lock Addition construction site on July 22, 2014. The group is attending the HydroVision conference in Nashville, Tenn., at the Music City Center. The four-day event, which has been held for two decades, highlights the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Nashville District showcases its projects for world’s hydropower experts

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 24, 2014) – During HydroVision International, the world’s largest hydro event, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District showcased its projects in Tennessee and Kentucky, which supported the professional development of conference attendees.
  • Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander and chief of engineers, speaks July 22, 2014 to more than 3,000 hydro experts from over 50 countries attending HydroVision International, the world's largest hydro event at Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)

    Chief of engineers highlights world’s largest hydro event

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 24, 2014) – Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander and 53rd chief of engineers, energized more than 3,000 people from over 50 countries during the keynote session of the world’s largest hydro event at Music City Center July 22.

  • September

    Park Ranger Gary Bruce, a conservation biologist at Center Hill Lake, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for April 2013.

    Bruce named Nashville District Employee of the Month for July 2013

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 11, 2013) – A conservation biologist at Center Hill Lake is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for July 2013.

  • August

    Bjoern Hoffman, left, Bauer Foundation Corporation project manager explains the Bauer MC 128 Hydrocutter to Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, center, deputy commanding general, Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during his July 31, 2013 visit to Nashville District’s Center Hill Dam. Jimmy Waddle, District Engineering and Construction Division chief is at right. The Hydrocutter, largest of its type in the world, which Bauer built specifically for the Center Hill Dam Seepage Rehabilitation project, cuts an approximate 10.5 X 7.25-foot element for the encasement wall in the embankment. Bauer will drill down 300 feet from the top of the earthen portion of the dam, through the encasement wall and up 130 feet into rock and construct concrete piles and panels to form the barrier over the next two years, according to Linda Adcock, Nashville District project manager. (USACE photo by Fred Tucker)

    MG Michael Walsh visits Nashville District

    Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, deputy commanding general for Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was “quite impressed” with his visit to Nashville District July 31, and Aug. 1.

  • February

    Members of the 2012-2013 Leadership Development Program Tier 3 class of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division pause for a photo prior to touring Nashville District’s Center Hill Hydropower Plant Feb. 27, 2013. From left, Christopher Johnson, Pittsburgh; Charles Uhlarik, Detroit; Sharon Raque, Louisville; Shane Hall, Huntington; John Groboski, Chicago; Crystal Adkins, Huntington; Joanne Mann, Nashville; Mike Greer, Buffalo; Suzanne Chubb, LRD Cincinnati; Tim Dunn, Nashville; and Patty Coffey, assistant chief of operations, Nashville District.

    Leadership Development Program Tier 3 class visits Nashville District Feb. 27-28

    Nashville, Tenn., (Feb. 28, 2013)—Ten members of the 2012-2013 Leadership Development Program Tier 3 Class of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division were welcomed to Nashville District Feb. 27, 2013 and briefed by Lt. Col. James A. DeLapp, district commander and his senior leaders.

  • October

    Danny Bryan, assistant professor in biology at Cumberland University, and Chris Simpson, wildlife diversity coordinator for region three with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, tracks a 51 inch timber rattlesnake fitted with a transmitter through radio telemetry at the Center Hill Lake saddle dam seepage rehabilitation project area Oct. 4, 2012. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Corps environmental assessment underway at Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s ongoing major rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam recently passed an important milestone with the completion of an environmental assessment public and agency review period for the project’s next phase located below the saddle dam.

  • August

    Lt. Col. James A. DeLapp, Nashville District commander, honors Curtis Ferguson, civilian, with a certificate of appreciation and a gold commander’s medallion at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building Sept. 17, 2012. Ferguson heroically pulled two people from the hazardous waters directly downstream of Center Hill Dam after their boat swamped and capsized by the strong current generated by the sluice gates Aug. 16, 2012. Ferguson was joined (left to right) by his wife Meagan Ferguson, Tricia Ferguson, mother, Scott Ferguson, father, and Casey Ferguson, sister. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Quick thinking, experience, teamwork aid in rescue of two below Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. -- Quick-thinking, experience and teamwork of individuals at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Center Hill Dam aided in the rescue of two people Aug. 16, 2012 after their boat capsized while fishing in turbulent tail waters during sluice gate releases.

  • July

    Two members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2011 Post-Flood Performance Assessment team watch sluicing operations at Center Hill Dam July 24, 2012. The team visited several Nashville District project sites this week to observe how water management operations within the Cumberland River Basin affected flood operations on the Mississippi River in the spring of 2011. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)

    Higher headquarters observes how Cumberland River Basin supported Greater Mississippi River System during 2011 flood fight

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 27, 2012) – When the lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers experienced a flood of record in the spring of 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District supported the flood fight by holding back water at its dams in the Cumberland River Basin reservoir system.
  • Tim Dunn, right, operations project manager for the mid-Cumberland area, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, explains why the Corps is having guided tours of the Center Hill Lake power plant during an interview with NBC News Channel 4 reporter and videographer Forrest Sanders July 21, 2012. (USACE photo by Fred Tucker)

    Center Hill Lake open house, power plant tours draw young, elderly visitors

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (July 21, 2012) – The first tours of the Center Hill Lake Power Plant since Sept. 11, 2001 drew the young and the elderly here today. Visitors ranged from an 83-year-old gentleman who worked on construction of the dam to a nine-year-old boy whose late great-grandfather’s property was reduced by approximately 100 acres, but who also worked on construction of the dam.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District project manager Linda Adcock stands by a Bauer Foundation Corporation drill rig July 11, 2012 that made the first excavation in the earthen portion of Center Hill Dam to install a concrete barrier wall which is the main feature of the Dam Seepage Rehabilitation project. (USACE photo by Fred Tucker)

    Construction begins with ‘first bite’ on foundation barrier wall at Center Hill Dam

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (July 11, 2012) – The “first bite” of a $106 million drilling project to stabilize the earthen portion of the Center Hill Dam with a barrier wall was taken today by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and its contractor, Bauer Foundation Corporation, as the auger of a giant drill rig turned up the first dirt to the cheers of spectators.

  • May

    (Left to right) David Loyd, Center Hill Dam Foundation Remediation Project resident engineer, U.S. Rep. Diane Black, Tennessee District 6, Linda Adcock, project manager, stand in front of Center Hill Dam, which is undergoing a $292 million rehabilitation to fix seepage problems. It is Black’s first visit to the project. (USACE photo by Bill Peoples)

    Black visits Center Hill Dam Foundation Remediation Project

    LANCASTER, Tenn. (May 3, 2012) – U.S. Rep. Diane Black visited Center Hill Dam today to see firsthand the ongoing foundation remediation project and to receive updates from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District personnel overseeing the work.

  • March

    Drill Rig Operator John Blackson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, works on a rig near the Saddle Dam at Center Hill Lake in Silver Point, Tenn., March 14, 2012. The Baltimore District is supporting the Nashville District with exploratory drilling capabilities. The Nashville District's geologists are working alongside the drill rig to analyze core samples. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Exploratory drilling brings out benefits of partnership between districts

    SILVER POINT, Tenn. (March 14, 2012) – A drill rig crew from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District extracted core samples here today that are being closely examined by Nashville District geologists at Center Hill Lake near what is known as the Saddle Dam. However, the exploratory drilling is revealing more than just the condition of rock formations; it’s also bringing out the benefits of the two districts partnering together to explore the movement of water seepage through the karst geology in the area.

  • September

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards Center Hill Dam barrier wall construction contract

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 22, 2011) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District announces today the award of a $106 million contract to Bauer Foundation Corporation to install a barrier wall at Center Hill Dam, which was officially awarded late yesterday.