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Lt. Gen. Semonite visits Seattle District

Seattle District welcomed Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, yesterday. During his visit he held a town hall meeting with District employees where he discussed Corps topics and recognized outstanding performers.

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Corps team rescues white sturgeon at Chittenden Locks

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team rescued a 6-foot white sturgeon during the annual maintenance pump out at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks November 10. Each year, Corps natural resource staff, fish biologists, scientists and volunteers go on a fish-rescue mission when the locks are drained. To ensure Endangered Species Act listed fish are safe, the team must capture, haul them out of the 50-foot deep chamber and release them. The team doesn’t limit its efforts to ESA listed species and this year the rescue included an estimated 100-pound sturgeon.

White Sturgeon Rescued

Dredging begins at Grays Harbor

Maintenance and deepening dredging of the inner harbor at Grays Harbor has begun. The first bucket of dredged material pictured here, a 35-cubic-yard rehandling bucket, is flanked by American Construction's Aaron McMahill and Chris Raymond.

Commander participates in disaster preparedness town hall

Seattle District Commander Col. John Buck participates in a town hall on disaster preparedness Oct. 4 at Thomas Jefferson High School in Auburn, Washingt‎on. King County Emergency Management Deputy Director Jody Miller also participated and King County Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer hosted the event. ‎The public meeting provided an opportunity to remind citizens the importance of emergency and disaster preparedness.

USACE clears navigational hazards

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel pick up logs out of the Puget Sound near downtown Seattle, Oct. 3, 2016. The logs were potential threats to navigation. The Corps has patrolled the Puget Sound to find and remove navigational hazards for more than a century. The Puget's crew collects large pieces of drift, waterlogged pilings, logs considered a hazardous to navigation and other debris. The Puget’s crew pick up about 1,000 tons of debris each year and this represents about 2,000 hazards to navigation.

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Army Corps of Engineers repairing Lightning Creek Levee in Clark Fork, Idaho

1/11/2017
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be conducting repairs on a section of the Lightning Creek Levee in Clark Fork, Idaho, beginning January 17, 2017. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials will restore two sections of the levee that were damaged during flood events in December, 2015. The damaged sites are adjacent to the repairs constructed in 2008.