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    Catherine Guilhur and Willow Eichler watch as Corps intern AJ Moore tests the spaghetti bridge constructed by Guilhur and Eichler as one of the design challenges during the 21st Annual Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program held at the district offices in Los Angeles April 24. Nearly two dozen children of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District employees participated in the event.

    Plant a seed, grow a future; Corps employees take their children to work

    Nearly two dozen children of Los Angeles District employees participated in the 21st Annual Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program held at the district offices here April 24. The children, ranging in ages from 5 to 18 years old, took part in a variety of activities designed to expand opportunities and transform lives.
  • Workers with West Point Contractors, Inc., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Los Angeles District’s contractor, clear rocks and vegetation Apr. 9 as they prepare to construct a bridge across the Chula Vista Wash in Nogales, Ariz. The $4M project will consist of constructing a two-span, I-girder concrete bridge, install associated road base and approach slabs, and placing grouted riprap both upstream and downstream of the project in the channel.

    Nogales Wash bridge project back underway

    There’s a new $4M bridge being built here and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is overseeing its construction, which began March 30.The project will consist of constructing a two-span, I-girder concrete bridge, install associated road base and approach slabs, and placing grouted riprap both upstream and downstream of the project in the channel.
  • A member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s team inspects the potential alignment of the possible location of a diversion levee in Mount Charleston, Nev. during a mission to the area March 11. The District sent a team consisting of members from the Hydrology and Hydraulics, Design, Geotech and Regulatory branches to make an assessment of the danger to life and property to a community downhill from a fire-burned slope after receiving a request for assistance from representatives of the State of Nevada.

    LA District undertakes special mission to Nevada

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District undertook a different kind of mission recently when they went to Mount Charleston, Nev. Mar. 11 and 12. For the first time in more than a decade, the LA District received approval for “Advance Measures” technical and direct assistance for the State of Nevada.