Environment

Workers from Chesapeake Geosystems, Inc., use a grout mixer. The grout produced will be pumped into a geothermal well site. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Ryan Scanlan

USACE Extols Benefits of Harnessing Ground Source Energy

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You don’t have to coax Dan Sirkis into talking about geothermal energy.

The chief of the Geo-Environmental Section in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Philadelphia District extols the …

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The desire to reduce America's reliance on foreign oil and explore alternative energy strategies is one of our great national challenges, and South Carolina appears to be a front-runner in the quest for offshore wind power. In 2009, the South Carolina Energy Office formed a Regulatory Task Force for Coastal Clean Energy to evaluate regulatory requirements facing any utility or entrepreneur who proposes to install wind turbines off the coast of South Carolina, similar to those pictured here, which are located off the coast of Denmark. Photo courtesy of Nuon.com

USACE Finds Wind Power Gaining Momentum as a Viable Energy Alternative The Army Corps of Engineers is committed to increased energy efficiency

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The development of alternative energy options is fast becoming a priority to many Americans and has emerged during the past several years as one of the nation’s great challenges. There …

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USACE's Regulatory Program protects waters of the United States, including navigable waters and federally delineated wetlands, like this one in central Florida. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Protection and Permission Mission

Meg Gaffney-Smith and the 1,300 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) regulators she oversees nationwide as the USACE Regulatory Program chief have a tough job on their hands. Every day, …

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Looking down stream at the Folsom Dam and Lake in Folsom, Calif. Granite construction company was awarded a $126 million contract in September 2010 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to build a new auxiliary spillway-control structure for Folsom Dam. USACE and California's Bureau of Reclamation, the dam's current owner and operator, will perform several upgrades to the dam and reduce the region's flood risk. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Michael Nevins

Dam Safety With a new dam safety regulation drafted and the National Risk Management Center up and running, USACE’s Dam Safety Program is reaching new milestones.

For the past five years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) put its portfolio of approximately 675 dams through the first level of rigor in its risk analysis methodology, …

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