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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Solar arrays at the Sacramento State Fair Grounds here resemble the array now under construction at Fort Hunter Liggett. The new one-megawatt solar array will provide for 30 percent of the post
FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif. -- Representatives from the Department of the Army, U.S. Rep. Sam Farr
SPA Archaeologist Jeremy Decker records a piece of fire-cracked rock, one of a series of artifacts showing where prehistoric people built a hearth.
A U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sign guards public-restricted wetlands between the Sacramento River and private orchards in Hamilton City, Calif. The new setback levees will pass directly between these wetlands and the orchards.
A look upstream of the Sacramento River from a Hamilton City, Calif. shore. The rock pile (left) is from emergency levee repair circa 1995, said Jose Puente, Hamilton City Community Services District general manager.
The "J-levee" (left) severs the connection between the river and floodplain near Hamilton City, Calif. "The majority of the old levee will be removed in order to reconnect the river to the natural floodplain, and only areas of the old levee with significant environmental benefits will be left in place," Corps project manager Tom Karvonen said.
The current, degraded levee known as the "J levee," separates privately owned orchards (left) and natural flood plain (right) near Hamilton City, Calif. A mature elderberry plant on the far right is home to the valley elderberry longhorn beetle, which has been listed as a federally threatened species since 1980.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District construction operations division chief Mike Mahoney (left) and California Department of Boating and Waterways boating facilities division chief Steve Watanabe officially open a new boat ramp at Black Butte Lake in California.
A bald eagle is spotted in its nest at Lake Sonoma, Calif., tending to its two offspring.
ILLLINOIS — Tom Ruf (right), structural engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, inspects one of the four tainter gates on Carlyle Dam, Ill., in August 2011. To the left is Ropeworks technician Blake Dieste.
TENNESSEE — Steve Hobbs, structural engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District and Level I certified for rope access technician, prepares to inspect the top chords of the railroad truss at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee. The St. Louis District employs this unique technique to conduct inspections of bridges, dams and other structures in the Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies.
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