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    Joaquin Mujica, deputy chief of Operations Division, New Orleans District, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for 30 years or more of service and commitment to STEM at the 27th Annual HENAAC Conference held in Pasadena, California, Oct. 14-18.

    Corps employees honored at STEM conference

    The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation recognized three U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees at their 27th annual conference here Oct. 14-18.
  • The phase separator of the mechanical evaporator located on the right of side of the photo is the third stage of the purification process. The project is the design-build of a six million gallon per day water treatment plant. The new plant will use a three-stage, electro-dialysis reversal (EDR) water treatment plant that treats all contaminants found in Fort Irwin's ground water in accordance with federal and state requirements. The plant will include: an electro-dialysis reversal (EDR) primary treatment, lime softening clarifiers, lime solids thickeners, lime sludge lagoons, reverse osmosis (RO) filters, brine treatment facility, concentrate equalization basins and a mechanical evaporator tower and feed tank, and three evaporation ponds to achieve the post’s 99 percent water recovery rate. The project also includes water system improvement and supporting utilities and infrastructure upgrades

    Fort Irwin water treatment plant reaches construction milestone

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and Corps contractor CDM Constructors, Inc., of Rancho Cucamonga have reached a critical milestone in the construction of the new Fort Irwin Water Treatment Plant as it began to transition to the plants commissioning phase in September.
  • Adobe Dam and the Arizona Canal Diversion Channel built in the 1980s have done much to protect historic sites and metropolitan Phoenix. The dam in northwest metro was built near Skunk Creek and the Hedgpeth Hills. It is the present day home of Arizona State University’s Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve with art work dating from 700 years ago to roughly 7000 B.C.

    Adobe Dam and ACDC protect historic site

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and stakeholder Flood Control District of Maricopa County completed Adobe Dam in 1982 to protect local communities from storm flows along Skunk Creek, in northwest metro.
  • Members from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Congresswoman Napolitano’s Office, Los Angeles County Fire Department, Azuza Police Department and the City of Duarte discuss the problems in cleaning up the San Gabriel River near Sana Fe Dam Oct. 21.

    Forming San Gabriel River clean up plans

    A meeting was held Oct. 21 in the Duarte Historical Museum near the Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale, California, to discuss the complex issue of cleaning up the San Gabriel River before the rainy season gets here.
  • Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Norwalk; Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, USACE South Pacific Division commander; Brig. Gen. (CA) James Gabrielli, Youth and Community Programs Task Force commander; Col. Steven Buethe, chief of staff for the program sits with Cadets Dantayan Mitchell, Reise Rodriguez, Stephanie Molina and Aylin Camacho during a presentation from Lt. Col. Joel Armstrong, Sunburst Youth Academy Director at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base.

    California youth learn from the best

    Amongst the training of the U.S. military’s elite at the Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, a California Military Department base, the National Guard showed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a congresswoman on Oct. 13 how they help the state’s youth improve their lives with education.
  • Corps employees and contractors discuss the status of piling installation along a section of Reach 9 of the Santa Ana River just downstream from Prado Dam. The pilings are part of bank protection along the flood risk reduction project.

    Lower Santa Ana River receives flood management project of the year award

    The Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers presented its 2015 flood management project of the year award to the Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District for its Lower Santa Ana River Reach 9 Phase 2B project during ceremonies held Oct. 3 at The Proud Bird restaurant, adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport.
  • The Kino Environmental Restoration Project features a 2.2-mile paved path around the basin for walking, jogging, bicycling, and wildlife viewing. KERP and the Kino Sports Complex are also on "The Loop" with more than 100 miles of multi-use paths around Tucson.

    KERP and the Corps

    In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.