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  • October

    Maj. Gen. Kimberly Colloton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations receives a description of details going into a Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System patient bathing room Oct. 12 in Long Beach, Calif.

    Corps general tours, receives updates on VA Long Beach mega project

    Maj. Gen. Kimberly Colloton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations – and a former LA District commander – was one of several distinguished visitors who received an update on Corps’ projects at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System.

  • August

    Attendees salute the flag during the singing of the National Anthem at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the JTFB Los Alamitos Energy Resilience Project Aug. 11 at Los Alamitos, Calif.

    Solar energy to power JTFB Los Alamitos and beyond

    Commander Col. Andrew Baker and leaders of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Energy Resilience Project, Aug. 11, at Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, California. The project was joint effort, involving the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy & Environment), California Military Department, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bright Canyon Energy.

  • June

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Rivers & Channels project manager Trevor Snyder holds an infographic board as Los Angeles River Restoration project manager Priyanka Wadhawan answers a question about the restoration engineering

    Korean engineers, officials visit Corps’ LA River restoration project

    A South Korean delegation of 20 engineers and Gyeongbuk province river-sector officials learned about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District restoration project June 6 on the bank of the Los Angeles River at Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park.

  • August

    Women demonstrate outside of President Woodrow Wilson's White House for passage of the 19th Amendment giving them the right to vote. National Archives photo

    Women’s Equality Day 2022 provides healing and hope

    The Army recognizes not only the significance of women’s contributions, but also the value of diversity and inclusivity of women to our fighting force.

  • April

    Vanessa Navarro and Thad Fukushiga, Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, examine model bridges built by STEM and JROTC students at Stephen White Middle School, March 25, 2022, in Carson, California.

    Corps' team builds bridges with STEAM

    Future Army officers were joined by a team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District to bring awareness to science, technology, engineering, arts and math March 23 at Stephen White Middle School in Carson, California.

  • May

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Park Ranger Mary Carmona secures the gate at the Deep Creek road entrance May 17. Vandals have continually cut the locks and removed the chains that secure that gate at several of the Corps Mojave River Dam basins entrances in the County of San Bernardino. The area also known as the “Deep Creek Spillway” is located on federal property and is restricted to authorized motor vehicles and personnel.

    District park rangers want public to know recreating at Mojave River Dam is not authorized

    LOS ANGELES – As COVID19 state and local government shelter-in-place restrictions loosen, local high desert residents may be for sure heading to their favorite watering hole, known to local residents as the “Deep Creek Spillway” this Memorial Day weekend.

  • December

    Troy Morris (center), project manager, briefs Col. Kirk Gibbs, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Dec. 7. Morris guided Gibbs and Shari Brandt, resident engineer for the Tucson Resident Office, through the newly completed 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group hangar, a 76,746-square-foot facility that features a two-story administration section housing a technical order library, records storage, tool cribs, equipment storage and an observation deck overlooking the hangar floor.

    New hangar unveiled at Davis-Monthan

    Col. Kirk Gibbs, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined Brig. Gen. Steven J. Bleymaier, commander, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and Tim Gray, deputy director, 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, to cut the ribbon officially opening the 309 AMARG hangar at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Dec. 7.

  • September

    KEARNEY, ARIZ. – Mike Langley, A senior project manager in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Arizona-Nevada Area Office’s Regulatory Division, discusses options during a public meeting held Sept. 24 for the proposed new tailings facility for Asarco’s Ray Mine. Langley is working on drafting an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed facility and held the meeting to set forth the plan the District is working on during the course of the study.

    Corps holds two public meetings on proposed Ray Mine changes

    Members of the Regulatory Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Arizona-Nevada Area Office held public scoping meetings on Sept. 24 and 25 in Kearney and Apache Junction, Ariz., to discuss a proposal for a new tailing facility for the Ray Mine in Pinal County.

  • May

    KINGMAN, Ariz. - Workers excavate soil around a home Apr. 19 during cleanup work being done by the US Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District at a Formerly Used Defense Site just outside Kingman, Ariz. The work being done by the District and its contractor, Eco & Associates, is part of the Time Critical Removal Action for the former Skeet Range, which is referred to as Munitions Response Site 03 of the former Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range.

    LA District cleaning up FUDS in Kingman

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District team is moving along with its clean-up work at the Formerly Used Defense Site just outside of Kingman, Ariz. which began Apr. 15. The work being done by the district and its contractor is part of the time-critical removal action for the site, which is referred to as Munitions Response Site 03 of the former Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range. The site was used as a skeet range for military training during World War II.

  • November

    WHY, Ariz. -- Shari Brandt, resident engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Tucson Resident Office, accepts a plaque of appreciation for the work done by the Corps from Jack Jeffreys, U.S. Customs and Border Protection patrol agent in charge of the Ajo Station, during a Nov. 27 ribbon-cutting ceremony at the station. The District served as the managing agent during construction of the new facility.

    USACE completes Ajo Border Patrol Station

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District participated in a ceremony Nov. 27 to cut the ribbon at the new Customs and Border Patrol Agency's Ajo Station. The facility covers more than 30 acres and contains more than 54,000 sq feet of working space. The new $30 million project is designed to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver standard.

  • District helps clean up Papago Park Military Reservation

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is helping clean up the remnants from a decades-old underground fuel tank at Papago Park Military Reservation. The District is working with a contractor on the site to operate and monitor a dual-phase soil vapor extraction system which is designed to remove hydrocarbon vapors from the ground while pumping out contaminated groundwater.

  • June

    LAS VEGAS -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Nellis Resident Office is working on an addition and improvement for the F-35 422 Evaluation Squadron Facility at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. The renovations will add a 16,000 square foot building and improve 4,000 square feet inside the existing facility.

    District keeps projects moving along in Las Vegas area

    LAS VEGAS – It’s been said that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is working on military construction projects in and around the Las Vegas area that will have effects across the country and around the world. One project at Nellis Air Force Base is the addition and renovation at the 422 Test Evaluation Squadron building. “The project will add a 16,000 square feet facility and there will be renovation of 4,000 square feet of the existing building,” said Mark Porterfield, project engineer at the District’s Nellis Resident Office. “Construction began in early June and the project is due in March 2013”