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  • June

    Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered the week of June 24 to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math. In this photo they are learning about how water flows within a watershed.

    Corps collaborates on teacher training to help promote STEM

    Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered the week of June 24 to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, in their classrooms.
  • COL. C. David Turner is the commander of the South Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

    Colonel C. David Turner assumes command of South Pacific Division, USACE

    Col. C. David Turner accepted Command of the South Pacific Division from the Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Tom Bostick during a ceremony Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at the Bay Model in Sausalito, Calif.

  • April

    Following “The Power of Partnerships” conference, Col. Mark Toy, commander of the Corps’ Los Angeles District, converses with (l to r) Phil Anthony, chair of SAWPA and a member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Water District, Mike Marcus, general manger of the Orange County Water District, and Celeste Cantu, general manager for SAWPA. The Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority sponsored the conference held April 11 in Costa Mesa, Calif.

    Partnerships bring recognition, success

    Several hundred watershed management professionals gathered April 11 in Costa Mesa, Calif., to discuss the benefits of consolidating efforts for maximum benefit in the present and anticipated times of fiscal limitations.
  • A crane lifts the last bucketfull of material from the Port of Los Angeles main channel April 3, marking the end of the Corps' 10-year project. The dredging project removed 15 million cubic yards of material in total, deepening the channel to a depth of 53 feet that will allow passage of "post-Panamax" ships.

    Final bucket marks completion of Port of LA channel deepening

    Standing on the fantail of the USS Iowa, dignitaries watched as a dredge lifted the final bucket of material from the water and emptied it into an adjacent barge, marking the end of a $370 million channel deepening project at the Port of Los Angeles April 3.

  • February

    From left to right: Janet Chin, representative from the office of Sen. Dr. Ed Hernandez; Lt. Col. Scott Peterson, commander of the Army’s Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion; Debra Mehndelson, a representative from LA supervisor Michael Antonovich’s office, Lt. Col. Alex Deraney, deputy commander of the LA District; Maj. Gen. Megan Tatu, Commanding General of the 79th Sustainment Support Command; and Navy Commander Michelle D. Carter, commanding officer of Navy Recruiting District Los Angeles, cut the ribbon commemorating the grand opening of the joint recruiting center in El Monte, Ca., Feb. 26.

    District helps improve LA-area recruiting efforts with new joint recruiting center

    The Los Angeles District helped open the doors to the newest joint recruiting center in LA county in a ceremony in El Monte Feb. 26. "This facility is an example of how the Corps of Engineers is ‘Building Strong and Taking Care of People,’ starting with our Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines, and our new recruits, who will play such a critical role in helping to maintain the strength of our Nation," said Lt. Col. Alex Deraney, deputy commander of the Los Angeles District, during the ceremony.
  • Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, speaks with Los Angeles District team members at the Arizona/Nevada Area Office during a lunch meeting held in the office Feb. 15. Bostick took time to answer questions from team members and give his vision for the direction of the Corps and how it relates to the local office.

    USACE commanding general visits Phoenix

    Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general, attended the Feb. 15 public meeting of the USACE Environmental Advisory Board and visited the USACE Los Angeles District Arizona/Nevada Area Office to meet with local team members.
  • PHOENIX - Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board and other USACE team members visit the flow-regulating wetlands at the Tres Rios Environmental Restoration Project Feb. 14. The EAB, hosted by the LA District's Arizona/Nevada Area Office team, visited Phoenix for two days to see environmentally-related projects throughout the valley in order to gain information to help them as they brief USACE leadership.

    LA District hosts USACE Environmental Advisory Board

    PHOENIX, Ariz. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Arizona-Nevada Area Office
  • (Left to right) San Fernando Valley Audubon Society President Dave Weeshof, Los Angeles District Commander Col. Mark Toy and SFVAS Conservation Chair Kris Ohlenkamp lead a group of Corps employees and local environmentalists on a nature walk Feb. 12 at the Sepulveda Dam Basin vegetation management area. (USACE photo by Jay Field)

    Corps to resume Sepulveda vegetation management operations

    During a nearly three-hour nature walk in the Sepulveda Dam Basin Feb. 12, Los Angeles District Commander Col. Mark Toy told representatives of local environmental groups that his operations and maintenance crews would soon resume the vegetation management work that began in December 2012.
  • Keynote speaker, Lowell Morgan speaks to the district’s work force attending the Black Employment Special Emphasis Program (BEP) Committee’s Black History Month kick-off, ceremony held at the district conference room, Feb. 4 in Los Angeles, Calif. The ceremony was held in the District’s 12th floor conference room-the site of all scheduled 2013 BHM events this month.

    District employees celebrate BHM at kick-off ceremony

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Black Employment Special Emphasis Program committee held its Black History Month observance kick-off ceremony at the District's headquarters Feb. 4.

  • January

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Black Employment Program honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a day of service by delivering more than 100 pounds of collected toiletries and toys to local shelters in the downtown Los Angeles community. Lashawn Richardson, Debra McCree, Matthews Turner and Arnecia Williams, offload donated items at the Downtown Women's Center. (USACE photo by Brooks O. Hubbard)

    District observes MLK holiday with day of service

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Black Employment Program honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday with a day of service by delivering more than 100 pounds of collected toiletries and toys to local shelters in the downtown Los Angeles community Jan. 22.
  • “Good vision and directing are the essence of leadership,” Col. Mark Toy tells Tier I and Tier II participants at the 2013 Leadership Development Program kickoff held Jan. 8 at the Los Angeles District headquarters.

    Future leaders kick off 2013 program

    “The most important qualities for a leader are to have a vision and to show people you care,” Col. Mark Toy said to 20 Tier I and Tier II members of Los Angeles District Leadership Development Program during the kick-off meeting held Jan. 8 at the District’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
  • Trash in the vegetative management area south of Burbank Boulevard. The five-year vegetation management plan is restricted to the 48 acres south of the boulevard and will reintroduce diverse, sustainable native species while maintaining the basin's primary function flood risk management.

    Work halts on Sepulveda Basin vegetation management project

    Work on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's five-year vegetation management project for the Sepulveda Dam Flood Control Basin has been halted to host further discussion with the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society, Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Steering Committee and other stakeholders.

  • December

    PHOENIX - Bill Miller, a senior project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Regulatory Department in the Arizona-Nevada Area Office, speaks with a group of USACE tribal liaisons during the 9th Annual Tribal Nations Community of Practice meeting which ran from Dec. 5-7 at the Area Office. Meeting participants spoke on several topics including impediments to working with tribes, a discussion with USACE headquarters Office of Counsel on legal issues, regulatory issues and a presentation on Gregory Canyon

    LA District hosts meetings with tribal representatives, Corps tribal liaisons

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District hosted a series of meetings and training sessions the week of Dec. 3 to Dec. 7. Training included discussion from seasoned tribal liaisons and marked the first time the Corps brought together a Tribal Panel of tribal representatives who shared their ideas on how the Corps of Engineers can improve the way it participates with tribes.
  • Rep. Ken Calvert, center right, takes part in ground breaking ceremonies Dec. 8 for March Air Reserve Base's new 16,000 sq. foot airfield traffic control tower and base operations facility. Joining him are, from the left, Col. Tim McCoy, contract partner David Parkes, Col. Bo Mahaney, Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart and David Van Dorpe, District deputy engineer for programs and project management.

    March ARB breaks ground on new airfield traffic control tower and base operations facility

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined community leaders Dec. 8 to break ground for the new March Air Reserve Base's nearly 16,000 sq. foot airfield traffic control tower and base operations facility.

  • November

    TUCSON, Ariz.- Col. Mark Toy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander, ceremonially completes the project at the Nov. 2 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Tucson Arroyo Project Phase II B Park Avenue Basins project while a group of students from the nearby Highland Free School cut the ribbon with Ramon Valadez, the Pima County Board of Supervisors chairman. The project, developed in partnership with the Pima County Regional Flood Control District; the City of Tucson; the Tucson Unified School District and the Corps of Engineers is designed to provide for flood risk management and ecosystem restoration along the Tucson Arroyo within the Arroyo Chico watershed.

    District helps dedicate Tucson project

    Members of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District were on hand Nov. 2 for a dedication ceremony of the Arroyo Chico Tucson Arroyo Project Phase II B Park Ave. Basins. The project provides flood risk management in the area and it is also an ecosystem restoration project. The project runs along the Tucson Arroyo in the Arroyo Chico watershed.
  • PHOENIX - Rich Fontanilla, the Area Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Arizona-Nevada Area Office, receives the Chief of Engineers Award of Excellence for Environmental Design Nov. 1 from Col. Mark Toy, the LA District commander, for work done at the Tres Rios Environmental Restoration Project, Phase II Flow Regulating and Overbank Wetlands while U.S. Representative Ed Pastor and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton look on. In partnership with the City of Phoenix and Archer-Western Contractors, Ltd., and Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.the Corps' project "does an outstanding job of natural treatment for wastewater effluent while providing valuable wetland habitat," according to the write up for the award.

    District project earns environmental design award

    Col. Mark Toy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander, presented the Chief of Engineers Award of Excellence for Environmental Design to the City of Phoenix and representatives from the District’s Arizona-Nevada Area Office, Archer-Western Contractors, Ltd., and Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., for work done at the Tres Rios Environmental Restoration project, Phase II Flow Regulating and Overbank Wetlands, during a ceremony held Nov. 1 at Phoenix City Hall.

  • October

    PHOENIX - Ann Palaruan, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, talks with a young attendee during the Tres Rios Nature and Earth Festival held Oct. 27. The Corps joined with other exhibitors for the one-day event to celebrate the project and raise awareness of the recreation opportunities available.

    LA District participates in Tres Rios festival

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined with exhibitors and vendors at the Tres Rios Nature and Earth Festival held Oct. 27 at the Base Meridian Wildlife Area. The festival celebrates the recreational and educational opportunities available in Phoenix's West Valley and throughout the area.
  • Lindsay Gordon, a pharmacy resident with the Los Angeles Medical Center, was the keynote speaker Oct. 24 for the Los Angeles District Special Emphasis Committee’s Disabilities Awareness Month program. Gordon’s topic was the alarming trend in Americans, especially our young people concerning diabetes.

    District Disabilities Awareness Month: Focus On Diabetes

    The CDC notes that if the current trend continues, one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050.
  • PHOENIX - Kevin Thomas (left), chief of the Construction Support Branch at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Arizona/Nevada Area office in Phoenix and Nick Erwin, a District intern, speak with high school students about opportunities with the Corps during the 2012 Arizona Construction Career Days held Oct. 4 at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. The District joined area construction firms and schools to give students information on educational and career opportunities in the construction field.

    District participates in Arizona Construction Career Days

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined with construction firms, schools and other exhibitors to be a part of the Association for Construction Career Development to participate in the 2012 Arizona Construction Career Days held Oct. 4 at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix.
  • PHOENIX - The Tres Rios Phase III Flow Regulating Wetlands, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, received the 2012 Crescordia award from the Valley Forward Association in the Site Development and Landscape: Public Sector category. As part of Phase III, the District removed invasive plants along the river in order to help bring back a riparian corridor populated by more native vegetation.

    Tres Rios project wins Valley Forward award

    The Tres Rios Phase III Flow Regulating Wetlands received the 2012 Crescordia award from the Valley Forward Association in the Site Development and Landscape: Public Sector category. The awards program is the benchmark in Phoenix for promoting livability, conserving natural resources and sustaining the valley's desert environment for future generations.