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  • April

    The Camino Real trail segments, known as the Los Alamitos Road, cross the Corps’ Galisteo Dam project. Portions of the road are still visible today downstream of the dam and also on private land north of the reservoir.

    Remnants of U.S.’s Oldest Highway Crosses Corps’ Galisteo Project

    Route 66 may have its kicks, but a dusty, mostly hidden and sporadic trail winding its way from Mexico City to Santa Fe, N.M. is still king, as the oldest of the Southwest highway systems. For 400 years, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the nation’s oldest and longest “highway,” was the only road into New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing thousands of settlers from Mexico and Spain into the region.
  • Navajo Artist Julius Badoni, a member of the Longest Walk team, creates a sign to be used on a truck accompanying walkers.

    Longest Walk 3 Participants Stay at Cochiti

    On the weekend of March 19, Cochiti Lake had the unique opportunity to play host to participants of “The Longest Walk 3, Reversing Diabetes.”
  • Corps biologist Michael Porter measures a Rio Grande Silvery Minnow during Spring 2010 monitoring activities.

    District Monitors Success One Fish at a Time

    If suitable habitat is built in the Middle Rio Grande, and river flows are adjusted to more closely mimic natural flows, will the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow become abundant once again?

  • March

    Lt. Col. Williams observed the progress of the well drilling on Kirtland Mar. 1.

    Corps Contributes to Investigatory Efforts at Base

    The Air Force, USACE, Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment and Shaw Energy and Environment have worked at a feverish pace to get the project initiated and begin meeting the deadlines imposed by the New Mexico Environment Department’s(NMED)Hazardous Waste Bureau.
  • During the conference, Seth Jones, planning lead, Galveston District, discusses Galveston’s projects that relate to the Rio Grande.

    District Hosts Meeting to Discuss Rio Grande

    More than 80 Rio Grande stakeholders met at the District headquarters Feb. 18 to discuss urbanization issues and possible projects associated with the Rio Grande, referred to by some as the “spine of New Mexico.”

  • January

    Contractors from Advanced Environmental Solutions, Inc. of Belen, N.M., wore personal protective equipment and performed the actual clean up at the Cochiti project.

    Cleaning up Cochiti

    While old transformers, antifreeze and aerosol cans aren’t significant archeological findings at the District’s Cochiti field project, they do signal that an environmental clean-up could be necessary.
  • The Bar-Cad multilevel groundwater monitoring system allows water samples to be taken from different depths.

    Corps Works at Former World War II Air Field

    In the early 1940s, the U.S. Department of Defense acquired approximately 1,000 acres near Fort Sumner, N.M., for an Army Air Field to train aircraft pilots during World War II.

  • December

    Field Office is Growing and Building Strong on the Border

    Despite dust, heat, tight deadlines and some remote, rural project locations, Albuquerque District’s El Paso Resident Office remains committed to Building Strong and strengthening the nation in the southern part of the District.