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FAST FACTS ABOUT THE ALASKA DISTRICT

Mission: The Alaska District provides a full spectrum of quality engineering, technical, and construction support services in support of peacetime and contingency operations in Alaska and throughout the Pacific Region.

• The district was established on April 9, 1946.
• Our headquarters is located on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.
• We are responsible for the largest geographic area in the nation.
• 1/5th the size of America’s lower 48 states
• 33,904 miles of coastline
• 15 million miles of potentially navigable waterways
• 43 percent of state is wetlands
• 220 million acres of wetlands and other waters
• We are executing our largest program ever, which is one of the biggest within the Corps of Engineers.
• Our major programs focus on military construction, civil works and environmental cleanup.
• Military construction projects account for the largest portion of our workload.  This trend is the result of supporting Army Transformation, as well as Air Force realignments and re-stationing.
• Our civil works program operates and maintains 52 river and navigation projects along the coast of Alaska.  Of these projects, 36 are small boat harbors, 10 are channels, four are breakwaters and two are river projects.
• Our formerly-used defense sites (FUDS) program has identified 312 environmental cleanup and restoration projects within the state.  To date, 132 projects have been completed. 

We are committed to supporting the global war on terrorism by constructing quality facilities for service members and their families in Alaska.  In addition, more than 70 members of our workforce have volunteered for assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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