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District Honored With Prestigious Awards

David McCullough (center) receives ACRA industry award at ceremony in September.Jacksonville District received two prestigious awards in September honoring outstanding achievements.

The Jacksonville District and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources were awarded the 2008 annual American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA) Industry Award for efforts to protect cultural resources. Archeologist David McCullough was instrumental in helping SAJ to receive the award. The project helped to preserve a site of international interest as a result of the construction of the Portugues Dam. Congratulations to David and Planning Division for their outstanding success!

A project engineered by the Jacksonville District has won the Australian-based International Riverfoundation’s International Thiess Riverprize for 2008. The river advocacy organization honored co-sponsors, the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) and the Corps’ Jacksonville District for the Upper St. Johns River Basin Project earlier this fall. Jacksonville District Deputy District Engineer for Project Management, David Hobbie, accepted the award for the Corps.

Regulatory Division Chief Dave Hobbie, presented St. Johns River Water Management Governing Board Chairman David Graham with a Commander’s Coin during their Oct. 14 governing board meeting in celebration of the partnership between the Corps and the SJRWMD for work on the Upper St. Johns River Basin Project. The project was awarded the International Thiess Riverprize for 2008. Maurice Sterling, director of the Division of Project Management,(center) and Hobbie traveled to Australia to accept the award. Photo courtesy of the St. Johns River Water Management District. (Mat O'Malley, photographer)

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Corps receives funds to develop holistic recommendation

Jacksonville District Commander Col. Paul Grosskruger accepted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a ceremonial check representing $1 million in funding from the Department of the Interior. The funding, and an agreement between the two agencies, will allow the Corps to immediately begin developing a comprehensive recommendation for ending the ecological damage caused by the 80-year-old Tamiami Trail.

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