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    Lt. Col. Cullen Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, welcomes Corps employees and state emergency managers present for a water management tabletop exercise Feb. 27, 2018 at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District holds high water tabletop exercise

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2018) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Crisis Management Team held a water management tabletop exercise today to walk through a simulated high-water event within the Cumberland River Basin in Middle Tennessee.
  • Lisa Morris, environmental engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Regulatory Division, is the employee of the month for January 2018. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Morris named Nashville District Employee of the Month for January 2018

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 26, 2017) – Lisa Morris, environmental engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Regulatory Division, is the employee of the month for January 2018.
  • Lt. Col. Cullen Jones (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents the Hedgehog Award to a team credited with ensuring a construction project for the U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, Tenn., finished on time and $5 million under budget. The award is given quarterly by the Nashville District to individuals or team of employees to recognize excellence at the district’s headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Those present at the presentation are (Left to Right) Barry Cunningham, Isaac Taylor, Bonnie Jagoditz, Jason Phillips, Jacqueline Huff, Joe Duncan, Brian Whitus, and Jones. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Oak Ridge project team earns Nashville District’s Hedgehog Award

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 15, 2017) – A team of employees received the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Hedgehog Award today in recognition of efforts that ensured a construction project for the U.S. Department of Energy finished on time and $5 million under budget.
  • Lock 1 on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tenn., is shown under construction Nov. 18, 1893. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District constructed the lock and dam to establish a navigation channel. This lock and dam was replaced by today's modern dam system. (USACE Photo)

    Nashville District tames Cumberland River with the 'Old Locks'

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 14, 2018) – Using wood coffer dams, primitive hand tools, A-frames and even animals to haul in supplies and stone blocks on tracks from nearby rock quarries, Army engineers constructed 15 navigation locks in the late 1800s and early 1900s to tame the Cumberland River for steamboats moving people and commerce throughout the region a century ago.
  • Tony Bivens, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Middle Tennessee Area manager, leads first responders across the upper gates at Old Hickory Lock in Old Hickory, Tenn., during First Responders Day Feb. 1, 2018. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District hosts ‘First Responders Day’ at Old Hickory Dam

    OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (Feb. 1, 2018) – What would happen if a towboat and barge were commandeered and its hijackers threatened public safety while inside a Corps of Engineers navigation lock? First responders wrestled with this potential scenario during a tabletop exercise at Old Hickory Dam today.