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  • August

    SANTA ROSA, N.M., -- A New Mexico State Parks ranger checks the fit of a life jacket on a Santa Rosa Elementary student. It's important to not only wear a life jacket, but to wear a properly fitting life jacket!

    The Albuquerque District Shares Water Safety Tips for Labor Day Holiday

    It’s almost time to say goodbye to summer. If you’ll be spending the weekend on or around the water this Labor Day, the Albuquerque District, USACE urges you to remember these safety tips.
  • PANAMA CANAL, PANAMA -- View of ships traveling through the Miraflores Locks, May 11, 2014.

    As Panama Canal Turns 100, District Employee Recalls Awesome Childhood in the Zone.

    To most people, the Panama Canal is a great engineering achievement that makes commerce and travel cheaper, easier, and faster. But to District employee Patricia Lewis, it was the setting for “an awesome childhood.”
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- The Contracting team of the Albuquerque District received the Excellence in Contracting Award PARC-Dallas for their outstanding performance in fiscal year 2013. Back row (l-r): Joseph Rael; Erica Talley; Monique Chisholm; Lt. Col. Joseph Davis; Linda Anderson, Kathleen Mayer; Madeline Livermore; Beverly Dodson; Karen Irving. Front row (l-r): Stephanie Parra; Francesca Luna; Leslie Molina; Diana Keeran; Kiera Robinson. Not pictured are Stuart Christianson and Glenda Kohlieber.

    District Contracting Team Selected for National USACE Contracting Award

    The District’s contracting team was selected for the 2013 Excellence in Contracting Award PARC-Dallas for their outstanding performance.

  • June

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Outgoing District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant (right) hands the Corps of Engineers flag to Brig. Gen. C. David Turner June 26, 2014, signifying the transfer of command responsibility to incoming commander Lt. Col. Patrick Dagon (left).

    Albuquerque District Welcomes 34th Commander

    Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Dagon assumed command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District June 26, 2014, during a formal change of command ceremony at the District headquarters.
  • COCHITI PUEBLO, N.M., -- Albuquerque District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant relinquishes land acquired by the Corps during the construction of Cochiti Dam over 50 years ago to Cochiti Governor Joseph Suina, June 5, 2014.

    Corps Returns Land to Cochiti Pueblo

    In a ceremony during a Corps-Pueblo de Cochiti partnership meeting June 5, 2014, the Corps relinquished land acquired during the construction of Cochiti Dam, returning it to the Pueblo.

  • May

    CONCHAS DAM, N.M., -- On May 17, 2014, 16 people and one canine participated in the “Ready, Set, Wear It!” event at the dam.

    Conchas Dam Wears It!

    On May 17, 2014, 16 people and one canine participated in the “Ready, Set, Wear It!” event at Conchas Dam.
  • EMBUDO, N.M., -- USGS Hydrologist George Seiber holds up two different instruments for measuring stream flow. The left one uses acoustics to measure; the instrument on the right is a traditional mechanical current meter.

    125 Years of Systematic Streamgaging

    As part of 2014’s Earth Day events, the District joined the USGS in a celebration for the 125th anniversary of the Embudo streamgage which was constructed as part of a training site for hydrographers and hydrologists to support irrigation in the desert southwest.

  • March

    SAN ACACIA, N.M., -- John D’Antonio, the District’s deputy district engineer and chief of Planning, Programs and Project Management Division, speaks about the flood control project while New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez; Derick Lente from the MRGCD; and N.M. Environmental Department Secretary Ryan Flynn look on, March 19, 2014.

    Middle Rio Grande Flood Protection Construction Gets Funding

    New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez announced the approval of $1 million in state Capital Outlay funds to help fund the first two phases of the Corps’ Rio Grande Floodway, San Acacia to Bosque del Apache, N.M., project.

  • February

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- The Rio Grande flows through the Bosque near Alameda Bridge, Nov. 3, 2013.

    Water, Weather and the Future

    In cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Labs, the Corps of Engineers recently issued the West-Wide Climate Risk Assessment: Upper Rio Grande Impact Assessment (URGIA), which investigates historic and future climate trends in the Rio Grande Basin.

  • Students Study STEM through Interactive Presentations

    Seventy students from two area schools gathered at the District’s main office to learn more about the importance of STEM and some of the various ways these subjects are essential in what the Corps of Engineers does on a daily basis.