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  • August

    The Artist Muneer Gonsalves poses by the Life Jacket Loaner Board at J. Percy Priest Lake’s Cook Recreation Area in Hermitage, Tennessee, Aug. 26, 2022, while partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to promote water safety. He encouraged Corps Lakes visitors to wear life jackets, make good decisions, and keep a close eye on children. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Raptivist Muneer says it takes wearing a life jacket to ‘Be Alright’

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 31, 2022) – In a public service announcement featuring his new song “Be Alright,” the Artist and Raptivist Muneer Gonsalves tells fans that wearing a life jacket when boating or recreating in the water will help keep them afloat and safe when visiting Corps Lakes.
  • Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander; and Stephanie Hall (Second from Left), Nashville District deputy district engineer; pose Aug. 24, 2022, with Retiree Linda Adcock and her husband Ricky after unveiling a nameplate honoring Adcock as a recipient of the 2022 Nashville District Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award at the headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Adcock receives Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 24, 2022) – Linda Adcock, who managed the Center Hill Dam Safety Rehabilitation Project before retiring in 2019, received the Distinguished Civilian Employee Recognition Award today highlighting exceptional achievements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.
  • Elizabeth R. Boeglin, civil engineer in the Engineering and Construction Division, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for June 2022. She is being lauded for plan development and design work in support of the Wolf Creek Dam Dissolved Oxygen Project. She is seen here working on plans and specifications Aug. 23, 2022, at the Nashville District Headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Civil engineer lauded for plan development on dissolved oxygen project

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 23, 2022) – Elizabeth R. Boeglin, civil engineer in the Engineering and Construction Division, is the Nashville District Employee of the Month for June 2022 for plan development and design work in support of the Wolf Creek Dissolved Oxygen Improvement Project.
  • Nathan Alford, engineer technician and construction representative in the Nashville District’s Eastern Tennessee Resident Office in Knoxville; and Sue Nan Jehlen, Mountain Home National Cemetery director, pose by the expansion project sign during a site visit at the cemetery annex in Johnson, City, Tennessee, Aug. 10, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District constructing Mountain Home National Cemetery expansion

    JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 17, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is providing technical services and managing construction of the Mountain Home National Cemetery Expansion Project, which will add 6,365 burial and cremation plots, plus eight columbarium units with 3,140 niches for veteran internments.
  • Lake Cumberland Resource Manager Jon Friedman and Stacey Bell pose Aug. 5, 2022, next to the new “Sid Bell Falls” sign on the shoreline of the lake in Watauga, Kentucky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District officially named the landmark after her grandfather Sid Bell who owned the land and operated a gristmill before the Corps of Engineers purchased the property when constructing Wolf Creek Dam. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Lake Cumberland landmark officially named ‘Sid Bell Falls’

    WATAUGA, Ky. (Aug. 12, 2022) – A popular landmark on the shoreline of Lake Cumberland will forever be known as “Sid Bell Falls,” the namesake of its landowner when the Corps of Engineers purchased it during construction of Wolf Creek Dam in 1943.
  • Attorney Sanja Bogdanovic (Right) and Notary Cindy Clark (Background) assist Sandra Engle, resident of Loyall, Kentucky, with processing an easement at Loyall City Hall July 21, 2022. This is the first easement closing that took place for the Loyall Flow-Through Ponding Project. (USACE Photo)

    Team closes record 49 easements for Loyall Flow-Through Ponding Project

    Nashville, Tenn. (Aug. 8, 2022) – A team of realty specialists, an attorney and engineers recently set a record with the acquisition of 49 easements supporting the flow-through ponding project in Loyall, Kentucky.
  • Resource Manager Jonathan Friedman operates the lake staff’s new patrol boat on Lake Cumberland in Albany, Kentucky while patrolling Aug. 5, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    New patrol boat enhances Lake Cumberland visitor assistance

    LAKE CUMBERLAND, Ky. – (Aug. 8, 2022) – Park rangers at Lake Cumberland are better equipped to assist and educate visitors and enforce regulations with the purchase of a new patrol boat with enhanced capabilities.
  • Safety Officer John Schnebelen Sr. and his grandson Zander Poulton pose together June 9, 2018, after completing leg 22 of a team building voyage of the Cumberland River. Employees and family members cruised their way in canoes, kayaks, and boats downriver over 650 of 694 miles of the waterway. Schnebelen wrote a poem about the magnificence of the Cumberland River voyage in the trip logbook. (USACE Photo)

    Poem chronicles magnificence of historic Cumberland River voyage

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 1, 2022) – A poem inscribed in a trip logbook five years ago has newfound attention for how it chronicles the magnificence of the Cumberland River.

  • July

    Andrew J. Brimm, senior operator at Cordell Hull Dam Powerplant, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for May 2022. He is being lauded for actions taken to avert a power outage in several rural communities while operating Dale Hollow Dam Powerplant remotely April 25, 2022. (USACE Photo)

    Actions to avert power outage generates recognition for senior operator

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 29, 2022) – The senior operator at Cordell Hull Dam Powerplant is the Nashville District Employee of the Month for May 2022 for actions taken to avert power outages in several rural communities in Kentucky and Tennessee.
  • Shonka Dukureh (Left), performs the National Anthem July 13, 2001, during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Change of Command Ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee. The singer and actress in the recently released movie Elvis passed away July 21, 2022, at the age of 44. The Nashville District is remembering her time as a public servant (USACE Photo)

    Shonka Dukureh remembered as ‘spirited’ public servant

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 22, 2022) – With breaking news of singer and actress Shonka Dukureh’s passing in Music City yesterday at the age of 44, the former Nashville District student aid is being remembered for her spirited work as a public servant in the Equal Employment Opportunity Office.

  • June

    Storage reservoirs in the Cumberland River Basin like J. Percy Priest in Nashville, Tennessee, provide a reliable source of water supply source for municipal and industrial users, as well as hundreds of private users. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District balances demands for water with the authorized purposes of the reservoirs when determining allocations for water storage. This is J. Percy Priest Dam June 30, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Storage reservoirs reliable source of water supply

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 30, 2022) – The system of dams and reservoirs in the Cumberland River Basin provide flood risk reduction, hydropower generation, navigation channels, and recreation benefits. It also provides a reliable water supply source for over 70 municipal and industrial users, as well as hundreds of private users.
  • Sarah Pedrick, biologist in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Water Management Section, collects water samples at Lake Cumberland in Kentucky May 25, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Team explains how it surveys Lake Cumberland’s water quality

    LAKE CUMBERLAND, Ky. (June 3, 2022) – A water quality team onboard a survey boat collected water samples last week from Wolf Creek Dam’s tailwater along with 12 more stations in the reservoir and major tributaries of Lake Cumberland.

  • May

    Singer and Songwriter Delnora Reed joins Park Ranger Ashley Webster (Left) and Sondra Carmen at Center Hill Lake’s Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area in Smithville, Tennessee, May 12, 2022, to partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to promote water safety. She said she is thankful for her life jacket when visiting Corps lakes. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Delnora asks music fans to wear life jackets at Corps Lakes

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 26, 2022) – In a public service announcement featuring her new song “Thankful,” singer and songwriter Delnora Reed is encouraging music fans to wear a life jacket when recreating and boating, which is the number one thing anyone can do to stay safe on the water.
  • Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents the Meritorious Service Medal to Lt. Col. Nathan Branen, Nashville District deputy commander, during a ceremony at the district headquarters May 13, 2022. Sahl made the presentation on behalf of Col. Kimberly A. Peeples, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander. The medal recognizes Branen’s extraordinary leadership and tireless work ethic that ensured the district’s success across its diverse and complex missions. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District bids farewell to its deputy commander

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 13, 2022) – Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District bid farewell to the deputy commander during a ceremony today at the district headquarters.

  • April

    Ryan Wigner (Right), technical lead for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, presents the completed Floodplain Management Services Study for Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, to Mayor Neal Pucciarelli at the city courthouse April 7, 2022. (USACE Photo by Aras Barzanji)

    Corps completes Cumberland Gap Flood Plain Management Services Study

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 29, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently completed a Flood Plain Management Services Special Study of the Gap Creek Watershed for the city of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
  • Gate City Mayor Bob Richards meets with Mark Veasey, technical lead engineer, on February 2, 2022, for a formal handover of the FPMS project report in Gate City, Virginia.

    Nashville District completes Gate City Floodplain Management Services Study

    GATE CITY, Va. (April 19, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently completed a Floodplain Management Services Special Study of Little Moccasin Creek and Big Moccasin Creek, which evaluated the continual flooding of surrounding areas of Grogan Park and Old Nickelsville Highway in Gate City, Virginia.
  • Lt. Col. Nathan Branen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District deputy commander, thanks the district’s administrative professionals for participating in “Educational Seminar and Conference for Administrative Professional’s Enrichment” April 1, 2022, at the Tennessee National Guard Training Facility in Smyrna, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Administrative professionals ESCAPE for training

    SMYRNA, Tenn. (April 5, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District provided an “ESCAPE” last week for employees called upon to answer phones, complete personnel actions, update training records, manage equipment accounts, purchase supplies, coordinate travel, input time and attendance, and other administrative tasks in their work centers.

  • March

    (Left to Right) Ben MacIntyre, biologist in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Regulatory Division’s Western Branch, Sammy Iskrzycki, biologist in the Regulatory Division Western Branch, Katie Alston, biologist in the Regulatory Division Technical Services Branch, and Mark G. McIntosh, project manager in the Regulatory Division Technical Services Branch, check for hydrology indicators at a soil point on a vegetation plot March 18, 2022, while training near J. Percy Priest Lake in Nashville, Tennessee. They support regulatory permitting actions at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Regulatory Division. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Regulatory Program facilitates environmental stewardship

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 24, 2022) – Ever wonder what federal agency provides regulatory oversight of commercial and private development affecting wetlands and waterways? The answer is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which facilitates environmental stewardship through its Regulatory Program.
  • Jonathan Friedman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s resource manager at Lake Cumberland and Laurel River Lake in Kentucky, is the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Water Safety Employee of the Year for his work promoting water safety. He is seen here operating a patrol boat on Lake Cumberland. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Resource manager recognized for promoting water safety

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 2, 2022) – The resource manager at Lake Cumberland and Laurel River Lake in Kentucky is recognized for promoting water safety, spearheading public outreach activities and several marketing campaigns that reached more than two million people in eastern Kentucky.

  • February

    Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, and Ben Rohrbach, Nashville District Engineering and Construction Division chief, recognize the newest licensed professionals affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board Feb. 23, 2022, at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Newest licensed professionals celebrated for National Engineers Week

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 23, 2022) – To recognize the Nashville District’s newest licensed professionals during National Engineers Week, six nameplates have been affixed onto the “Registered Professional Personnel” board as a record of achievement for all to see in the district headquarters.