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  • March

    Power Project Operator Olga Beddingfield at Old Hickory Dam explains how the dam and its hydropower is operated and controlled March to MBA students Will Singer (Middle) and D.J. Mott during a project tour March 9, 2012. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Prep students shadow Nashville District engineers

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 9, 2012) – Experiencing the “day in the life” of an engineer, two sophomores from Montgomery Bell Academy participated in a shadow program today with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Engineering Branch.
  • Roy Rossignol (Left), chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Business Office, talks with a participant at a Small Business Training Forum, March 8, 2012, at the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus in Nashville, Tenn. The Nashville District participated and the TSU Development Center and Society of American Military Engineers along with many other sponsors helped organize the event.

    Nashville District gets down to business

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 8, 2012) – More than 200 business owners and reps from as far away as California traveled to the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus today to garner information on federal, state and local procurement systems. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District small business, contracting, engineering and operations experts got down to business, using the event to explain Corps project opportunities to participants of the Small Business Training Forum.

  • February

    (Left to Right) Bristol, Tenn., City Manager Jeff Broughton; John Gillenwater, project organizer; Jery Goodpasture, project organizer; Anne Gillenwater, project organizer; Lt. Col. James A. DeLapp, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander; Bristol, Va., Mayor Edward K. Harlow; and Bristol, Tenn., Mayor David Shumaker officiall break ground on the Beaver Creek Flood Risk Reduction Project Feb. 7, 2012 on the project site Feb. 7, 2012. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)

    Corps, cities of Bristol break ground on flood risk reduction project

    BRISTOL, Tenn. (Feb. 7, 2012) – Equipped with ceremonial golden shovels, a select group of officials broke ground here today on the Beaver Creek Flood Risk Reduction Project.