Los Angeles District News Releases https://www.spl.usace.army.mil Los Angeles District News Releases RSS Feed en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:51:00 GMT Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:32:51 GMT LA District, California Army National Guard to conduct flood-fighting demonstration Oct. 8 at Whittier Narrows Dam https://www.spl.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2372010/la-district-california-army-national-guard-to-conduct-flood-fighting-demonstrat/ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and the California National Guard are partnering to conduct a Super Sand Bag Placement functional exercise at the Whittier Narrows Dam in Montebello, California. The exercise will include the use of a U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter flown by a crew with the California National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility No. 1, based in Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. The California National Guard will conduct a sling-load operation that will place sandbags into a simulated breach of the levee system at Whittier Narrows Dam to demonstrate the joint flood-fighting capabilities of the Corps and the California National Guard. <br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2020/Oct/04/2002510948/115/75/0/200923-A-AB280-1031.JPG' alt='A U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter flown by a crew from the California National Guard&#39;s Army Aviation Support Facility #1 at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos' /> <br /> Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:51:00 GMT Press Operations https://www.spl.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2372010/la-district-california-army-national-guard-to-conduct-flood-fighting-demonstrat/ Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Disaster Response Emergency Operations U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division South Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alamo Dam sill replacement https://www.spl.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2281809/alamo-dam-sill-replacement/ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District will make lower-than-normal releases from Alamo Dam to facilitate contract divers as they begin repair work on the sill of the outlet works July 23.<br/> Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:00:00 GMT Press Operations https://www.spl.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2281809/alamo-dam-sill-replacement/ Civil Works