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  • April

    Working on Engineering a World Away

    When Project Manager Michael Fies joined the Corps in 2000, he told his wife, who is Japanese, that he would keep an eye open for an opportunity to do a tour of duty in Japan. Seven years later, a position came open in Pacific Ocean Division, Japan District (POJ).

  • March

    COCHITI LAKE, N.M. - Park Rangers Chris Schooley (left) and Nicholas Parks situate the Cochiti Lake Project’s boat in the dock.

    New Dock to Enable Park Rangers to Respond on Lake Faster

    The District completed the installation of a fully enclosed service dock at Cochiti Lake March 2, allowing the project’s patrol boat to be on the water at all times. It is an improvement the park rangers believe will have significant public safety benefits.
  • Workers fix a breach in the border fence along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

    District Oversees Maintenance of Border Fence Breaches

    Holes are cut and burrows are dug under the border fence between the United States and Mexico each and every day, and they never seem to end. Breaches are especially prevalent in February and March, during the harvest season for marijuana, in the Albuquerque District’s area of responsibility, necessitating the United States government to have maintenance contracts in place to repair them.

  • February

    Historically, the Gunnison sage grouse occupied southwestern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northwestern New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona. But, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, its range has been reduced to seven separate populations in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. Of the approximately 4,500 breeding Gunnison sage grouse, some 3,900 inhabit the Gunnison Basin in Colorado.

    Corps Helps Creek Regain Its Curves

    Approximately 50 years ago, a creek blew out during a storm on a Colorado man’s property in the San Luis Valley, just south of Poncha Pass, and started to realign itself. At the time, the landowner saw an opportunity to straighten about a mile of the creek, and he intervened. However, in a few years, the creek turned into a ditch and remained that way until recently.
  • WASHINGTON D.C., -- District employee MSG Lujan gets a photo with the President and First Lady after the 2012 State of the Union Address.

    Wounded Warrior Team Member Meets President Obama

    District employee MSG Lujan had the opportunity to meet the President after the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.
  • KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., -- In May 2011, Environmental Project Manager Walt Migdal accompanied District Commander Lt. Col. Williams (left) on a tour of a military construction project to remove and replace an aging bulk fuels facility.

    District Takes Environmental Project Management to Next Level

    Taking the environmental investigations and remediation work from about $20 million in fiscal year 2010 to $54 million in fiscal year 2011 was no miracle. It was customer responsiveness, plain and simple.

  • December

    The Corps installed 50, 20-foot-long log booms in the canyon portion of Cochiti Lake, a half mile upstream of the Tetilla boat ramp, to catch debris.

    Log Boom to Help Clear Lake of Debris

    In response to the large amount of debris that was flowing into the Corps’ Cochiti Lake from the aftermath of the Las Conchas Fire, the District decided to install 50, 20-foot-long log booms on Nov. 17 to help collect future debris.

  • October

    Pictured in Los Alamos are members of the District’s on-site team: (left to right) William Wadsworth, Richard Kridler, Glenn McMaken, Jason Woodruff and Milo Gerber. Not shown is Ragan Glandon.

    Corps Team Provides Expertise for Replacement Project—Per interagency agreement with National Nuclear Security Administration

    Based on an Interagency Agreement with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the District is executing a broad mission of engineering and construction related activities related to the Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Project in Los Alamos, N.M.

  • September

    Joseph Lopez and Roger Apodaca, District’s Abiquiu Lake equipment operators, narrowly escaped a flash flood while steadily maneuvering heavy equipment owned by the Corps to help clear debris from a flooded area of Santa Clara Canyon.

    Santa Clara Canyon Debris Removal Turns Perilous

    Abiquiu Lake Operations Manager Dave Dutton visited Santa Clara Canyon to see the progress made by Joseph Lopez and Roger Apodaca, District’s Abiquiu Lake equipment operators, and was astounded. He said there was absolutely no way the Santa Clara Pueblo would be as far up their canyon without the Corps’ help.

  • July

    Firefighters Bed Down at Corps’ Campground

    As of July 11, the Las Conchas fire continues to burn and has scarred nearly 150,000 acres of Santa Fe National Forest in Sandoval, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties in northern New Mexico and has caused eight injuries.