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Army Corps Joins Students, Partners and Celebrate Environmental Day

4/30/2013
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District participated in Environmental Day, an annual event held at Elizabeth, New Jersey aimed at educating local students about the environment. On a perfect weather day for an outdoor classroom environment, the event was held April 24th adjacent to the Elizabeth Marina dock on the shore of the Arthur Kill Channel.

Army Corps helps support the Army Family through school construction

4/25/2013
The West Point community and Department of Defense continue to be committed to providing these children an education to take them into the 21st century, even in the current tough fiscal times.

Going Green: Corps builds largest induction solar wall in the country

4/24/2013
The Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Eastern Distribution Center in New Cumberland, Pa., provides critical supplies for the military stationed overseas. DLA needed an alternative, cost-saving way to provide heat for this massive warehouse.

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New England federal recreation areas to open

5/15/2013
Most recreation areas at the 31 federal flood risk management reservoirs in New England operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open to the public in mid-to-late May 2013. Some recreation areas in Connecticut will open in late April.

Army Corps to Conduct Public Information Session to Discuss Blasting in the Kill Van Kull off of Bayonne, NJ

4/18/2013
The Army Corps in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are improving the

New England federal recreation areas to open

4/15/2013
Most recreation areas at the 31 federal flood risk management reservoirs in New England operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open to the public in mid-to-late May 2013. Some recreation areas in Connecticut will open in late April.

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An aerial view of the vent shaft on Governors Island, NY, Nov. 5, shows one of three sites where dewatering operations are taking place on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, where 86 million gallons of water are being removed for the state of New York through FEMA by a joint operation by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and others. As of Nov. 6 pumping operations are complete at 7 of 14 critical locations in NY as determined by local officials.
To date, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has more than 38 FEMA Mission Assignments exceeding $134 million. Providing temporary emergency power to the nine buildings at the Redfern Housing Complex,in Far Rockaway, N.Y., as well as roughly 50 other buildings in six complexes throughout Far Rockaway, is one of those mission assignments. Some of the buildings, like four of the nine in the Redfern complex, must have water pumped out of the basements before power can be restored.
LEBANON TOWNSHIP, NJ – Ashley Kosmal (left), a Baltimore District project engineer, and Joe Hollshwander, a Baltimore District resident engineer, monitors a debris removal crew as they cut away fallen trees from power lines in preparation for power crews to begin to restore power to the area in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographs the Corps' dewatering operation Nov 3 in lower Manhattan. (U.S. Army photo by Mary Markos)
A generator is staged at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov. 3, before it departs to an area affected by Hurricane Sandy. USACE is working through FEMA to get needed supplies such as emergency power generators to areas throughout New York and New Jersey. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick Bloodgood)
NEW YORK -- A contractor hooks up an outflow line from a second pump dewatering the Hugh Carey Tunnel also known as the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. The Corps is has been tasked by FEMA to dewater the impacted infrastructure in the City (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
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