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  • November

    Fiscal year 2012 began with Albuquerque District Deputy for Small Business Programs Daniel Curado’s selection as the Corps’ Small Business Specialist of the Year 2011 (shown with the award and Maj. Gen. Bo Temple) at the national Society of American Military Engineers Small Business Conference Nov. 30, 2011.

    District Far Exceeds Small Business Goals in Fiscal Year 2012

    Fiscal Year 2012 was a banner year for the Albuquerque District, as the District exceeded its goals for contracts to small businesses in several categories.
  • District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant and ESCAFCA Chairman Sal Reyes sign an agreement to study spoil bank levees along the east side of the Rio Grande near the Town of Bernalillo, N.M.

    District, ESCAFCA Sign Partnership Agreement

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District and the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Authority (ESCAFCA) signed an agreement Oct. 2 to partner on a geotechnical, hydrological, hydraulic, economic and environmental study of the existing spoil bank levees along the east side of the Rio Grande near the Town of Bernalillo, N.M.
  • CONCHAS DAM, N.M., -- Albuquerque District Ranger Michael Vollmer and Maintenance Worker Carl Latham endured mosquitoes and leeches while setting the turtle traps.

    Staff Conducts ‘Operation Turtle Eviction’ at Conchas Dam

    The Corps’ Conchas project will be busy with activity during the next few months, as maintenance work is performed on the stilling basin. It has been 40 years since the basin has been cleaned and inspected. However, before the de-watering takes place, rangers and maintenance personnel wanted to make a concerted effort to trap and relocate any amphibious residents living in the basin.
  • JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR, COLO., -- Volunteers Deborah West and her granddaughter Kyra Bierbaum pulled weeds and sunflowers on the south shore of John Martin Reservoir to help promote critical nesting habitat for the Piping Plover and Interior Least Tern at the 2012 National Public Lands Day event held at the reservoir.

    Volunteers Improve Lands Managed by the Corps

    Volunteers arrived at the Albuquerque District’s lake and dam locations to help with improvement projects as part of National Public Lands Day (NPLD) Sept. 29.

  • October

    Albuquerque District’s Ordnance and Explosive Safety Expert Steve Carpenter is called to look at some debris at the site. Carpenter is part of the Corps’ team on hand to monitor project activity.

    District Cleans Up Weapons Disposal Site at Kirtland

    The Air Force identifies old or unneeded munitions and small arms that need disposed of at sites like the 165-acre Open Burn and Open Detonation site on Kirtland Air Force Base, created in the 1950s. In 2010, when the Air Force decided to close the site, initiating a mandatory cleanup required by regulation, they turned to the Corps.
  • By signing the cost-sharing agreement, the Corps’ and MRGCD commit to a feasibility study to construct a 50-mile stretch of levees.

    District, MRGCD Sign Cost-Sharing Agreement

    At the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) board meeting Sept. 10, District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant presented a cost-share agreement to the board that was subsequently signed by her and MRGCD Vice-Chair Eugene Abeita.
  • Trinidad Dam

    District Assesses Dams for Risk Management, Safety

    In 2005, the Corps overhauled how it looks at dams from a solely standards-based approach to a dam safety portfolio risk management approach, according to Suzi Hess-Brittelle, geologist and the District’s dam safety program manager.
  • Duane Nelson, a Corps’ contractor at John Martin Dam and Reservoir, received the Rich G. Levad Award Aug. 25, 2012 from members of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) near Barr Lake, Colo.

    Corps’ Contractor Receives Rich G. Levad Award

    Duane Nelson, a Corps’ contractor at John Martin Dam and Reservoir, received the Rich G. Levad Award Aug. 25 from members of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) near Barr Lake, Colo.
  • Participants in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new dorm were (L to R): Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith, Airman 1st Class Samantha Crenshaw, Command Chief Master Sgt. Paul Henderson, Airman 1st Class Andrew Athanasiadis, and Airman 1st Class Kyle Riess.

    Corps Awards Contracts for Cannon Expansion

    District Project Manager Joe Almers and others attended a ground breaking ceremony for a new, 96-person dormitory at Cannon Air Force Base, in Clovis, N.M., Aug. 27, which is one of several Corps’ projects that are part of the base’s expansion. The increase in people and planes require new housing and new maintenance facilities, and the District awarded several contracts in fiscal year 2012 to accommodate those needs.
  • From L to R: District Project Manager Alicia Austin Johnson, District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Vice-Chair Eugene Abeita, and MRGCD Chief Engineer Subhas K. Shah accept the award for ecosystem revitalization work in the Rio Grande Bosque, providing foraging and nesting habitat for 80 percent of vertebrate species in the region.

    Bosque Project Earns Chief of Engineers Award of Excellence

    The Chief’s Awards of Excellence Program recognizes superior projects of innovation accomplished by the Corps and private sector design and construction community partners around the world. The District’s Ecosystem Restoration (Rt66) Project was selected for an Environmental Honor Award.