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  • March

    Lt. Col. Joseph Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, leads a group of stakeholders on a tour of Kentucky Lock and the Kentucky Lock Addition Project March 22, 2023, on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. He is having a conversation with Cmdr. Jennifer Andrew, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Paducah, as the group walked on the coffer dam and future downstream approach wall during the tour. A vessel and barges approach the downstream active lock on the left of the photo and construction of the new lock chamber can be seen on the right of the photo. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Roundtables serve stakeholders mega project update

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 24, 2023) – Nashville District leaders, engineers and project managers hosted stakeholder roundtables this week to provide updates and an opportunity to visit the district’s two mega construction projects.
  • Nashville District Park Rangers attended the 2023 Park Ranger Workshop at the Wilson County Schools Admin and Training Complex in Lebanon, Tennessee, March 7-9, 2023. (Photo by: Misty Cunningham)

    Park Ranger Workshop prepares Corps Rangers for upcoming recreation season

    LEBANON, Tenn. (March 15, 2023)— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District held this year’s Nashville District Park Ranger Workshop March 7 – 9 at the Wilson County Schools Admin and Training Complex in Lebanon to plan for the 2023 recreation season.
  • Kentucky Lock and Dam Operator and Maintenance Mechanic Adam Halcom welds mooring cells March 8, 2023, while repairing the rings for future use by vessels waiting to lock through Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. (USACE Photo by Misty Cunningham)

    Maintenance Support Team, Lock engineers tackle tough jobs

    GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (March 10, 2023) – Nashville District Maintenance Support Team and Kentucky Lock engineers onboard the Motor Vessel Iroquois repaired a mooring cell and replaced broken and outdated parts this week just upstream of Kentucky Lock on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Kentucky.
  • Dellaria Martin (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District contracting officer, answers questions and provides information to Allie Williamson (Right), chief executive diva for Southern Domestic Diva, and Laina Kimbro, sales executive assistant, during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Small Business Industry Day March 6, 2023, at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Small Business Industry Day highlights women-owned small business

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 9, 2023) – Nearly 300 business owners and managers received extensive information about small business opportunities within the federal, state and local procurement systems during the Small Business Industry Day March 6, 2023, at the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus.
  • Lock Operator Kenneth Hammock monitors a recreational sailboat as it moves barges into Chickamauga Lock March 2, 2023. He works to safeguard navigators at the active lock on the Tennessee River, which is very close to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District construction project to build a new 600-foot-long by 110-foot-wide lock. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Lock operators work super safely near mega construction projects

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 8, 2023) – Operators at navigation locks could easily wear capes for the super work they do to ensure the safety of the public, not to mention employees that maintain these projects in the Cumberland and Tennessee River systems. At Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Kentucky, and Chickamauga Lock in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ongoing mega construction projects to build larger new locks pose additional hazards for these vigilant protectors of people and resources.
  • Kathleen Miller is pictured in front of a blue backdrop.

    Nashville District names Miller Employee of the Month for December 2022

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mar. 7, 2023) – Kathleen Miller, assistant district counsel with the District Office of Counsel, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for December 2022. She is recognized primarily for taking on additional workloads in the month of December to ensure critical contracting milestones were met.

  • February

    Operations Officer 1st Lt. Conor Kane greets potential hire, Navy Civil Engineer Dustin Burkett at the Nashville District job fair at J. Percy Priest Lake visitor center on February 23, 2023.

    Nashville Corps first job fair offers tentative jobs on the spot

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2023)—The Nashville District Corps of Engineers hosted the first Nashville District job fair. Six qualified applicants received tentative job offers by the end of their interview.
  • The business of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is preparedness. A dedicated emergency management team plays an important role in the administration and execution of the program, and supporting personnel that are called to deploy. This is Cullum Miller, Nashville District Technical Services Section chief and quality assurance supervisor, reviewing a completed blue roof installation in Marathon, Florida, while on deployment Oct. 25, 2017. Miller volunteered to support Operation Blue Roof following Hurricane Irma. (USACE Photo by Patrick Moes)

    Emergency Management in business of preparedness

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 16, 2023) – When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District stands ready to join an immediate response to help people and communities recover.
  • Park Ranger Judy Daulton stands in front of the shoreline of Lake Cumberland.

    Nashville District names Daulton Employee of the Month for November 2022

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (February 6, 2023) – Judy Daulton, a park ranger at Lake Cumberland, Wolf Creek Resources in the Operations Division is named U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for November 2022. She is recognized primarily for her quick thinking and conflict resolution skills leading to the de-escalation of an argument between a contractor and visitor of Kendall Recreation Area.
  • Government officials, stakeholders and citizens cut a ribbon to dedicate the completion of the North Murfreesboro Greenway Project Jan. 31, 2023, at the Walter Hill Trailhead in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The event recognized the completion of work by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District on two additional miles of paved pedestrian trails and improvements to the popular 18-mile Twin Forks Equestrian Trail. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Officials dedicate North Murfreesboro Greenway extension

    MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (Feb. 2, 2023) – Officials dedicated two additional miles of paved pedestrian trails along the North Murfreesboro Greenway Jan. 31, bringing the total to five miles of greenway space constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District for public recreation in the community.

  • January

    Greg Bishop (Right), senior Interagency and International Services (IIS) project manager and acting program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, and Kenny Gilreath, chief of Facility Management for the Big South Fork National River Recreation Area, Obed National Wild and Scenic River, and Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, discuss the way forward for a wastewater construction project at the National Park Service Blue Heron Mine at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Stearns, Kentucky. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    National Park Service wastewater project underway

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 26, 2023) – A long overdue wastewater project is underway to provide a sanitary upgrade for the National Park Service Blue Heron Mine Area at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area near Stearns, Kentucky.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Maintenance Support Team onboard the Motor Vessel Iroquois is positioned on the downstream side of Watts Bar Lock on the Tennessee River in Decatur, Tennessee, to repair the needle-dam-girder beam slot Jan. 19, 2023. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Maintenance Support Team repairing slot at Watts Bar Lock

    DECATUR, Tenn. (Jan. 24, 2023) – The Nashville District’s Maintenance Support Team onboard the Motor Vessel Iroquois is repairing the needle-dam-girder beam slot on the downstream end of Watts Bar Lock on the Tennessee River.
  • Cierra Vega stands in front of USACE banner

    Nashville District names Vega Employee of the Month for October 2022

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 23, 2023) – Cierra Vega, contract specialist in the Contracting Division, is named U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for October 2022. She is recognized primarily for executing a short-notice contract in support of Ft. Campbell in a record-setting 12 days.
  • Wolf Creek Dam Russell County, Kentucky, 2019. USACE Photo

    Flood Risk Management: Protecting people from water

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 13, 2023)— USACE's Flood Risk Management Program is designed to reduce overall flood risk through policies, programs, and expertise. By using structures like flood control storage dams and implementing preventative planning measures which can reduce loss of life, and economic damages or improve the natural environment, the Nashville District is helping to prevent flood risk damages.
  • Wolf Creek Dam at Cumberland River mile 460.9 in Jamestown, Kentucky, forms Lake Cumberland. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the project, which provides enormous flood risk management benefits. The dam is seen here the early morning of Jan. 10, 2023. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Wolf Creek Dam provides enormous flood risk management benefits

    JAMESTOWN, Ky. (Jan. 13, 2023) – When the Cumberland River Basin in southeastern Kentucky experiences storms and waters rise, Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River provides enormous flood risk management benefits.
  • Andrew Harrell stands in front of the beach area at Cook Recreation area holding two life jackets.

    Nashville District names Harrell Employee of the Month for September 2022

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 9, 2023) – Park Ranger Andrew Harrell, natural resource specialist intern at J. Percy Priest Lake, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for September 2022. He is recognized for his quick thinking, leading to the rescue of two swimmers in distress at Cook Recreation Area.
  • Park Rangers John Poston and Chee Hill from Old Hickory Lake assist visitors to the Nashville Boat Show at Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Jan. 5, 2023. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is promoting water and boating safety and providing information about recreation at the event. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Boaters encouraged to visit Corps of Engineers booth at Nashville Boat Show

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 6, 2023) – Boaters are invited to visit booth 002 at the Nashville Boat Show in Music City Center to meet with park rangers who are familiar with Corps of Engineers lakes, dams, locks, recreation areas and campgrounds in the Cumberland River Basin.