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  • May

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (USACE), Dredge MURDEN pumps sand and slurry materials during 24/7 dredge operations in Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 23, 2025. Dredge MURDEN is clearing critical shoaling by dredging areas that will maintain safe and efficient navigation conditions for military and commercial vessels in the harbor. (USACE Photo by Mark Rankin)

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers MURDEN Dredges Naval Station Guantanamo Bay

    GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (May 12, 2025)–Waterway Navigation is the U. S Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) earliest Civil Works mission. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, called upon the Wilmington District’s Dredge MURDEN for an innovative mission to help clear critical shoaling to maintain safe and efficient navigation conditions for military and commercial vessels in the harbor.

  • February

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District Economist Evan Jonson explains variables under consideration during the Charlotte County Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Study to a reporter from The Daily Sun, a Charlotte County publication.

    Teamwork makes the dream work: A South Atlantic Division “fab collab” addresses coastal storm risk management in Charlotte County

    JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Feb. 28, 2025) A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers multi-district team from the South Atlantic Division survey storm damages to Manasota Key, Fla. and host public meetings in partnership with Charlotte County Civil Works for the upcoming Charlotte County Coastal Storm Risk Management study.

  • July

    South Atlantic Division Commander, signs a memorandum of agreement for Guajataca Dam Permanent Repairs, the govenor of Puerto Rico and the Exec. Engineer of PREPA watch

    USACE signs MOA Agreement for Guajataca Dam Repairs

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Atlantic Division commander, Brigadier General Daniel Hibner, signed a Memorandum of Agreement on June 29, 2023, with the Puerto Rico Power Authority (PREPA), to initiate the permanent repairs of the Guajataca Dam in Isabela, Puerto Rico. The total estimated cost for this project is around $1 billion. The funds will be received from PREPA with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Recovery Funds. It is estimated that the permanent repairs will benefit 1,000 people that live directly downstream of the dam and another 250,000 that receive water from the filtration plants in Guajataca, Quebradillas, Isabela, and the mountains of Aguadilla. Governor Pedro Pierluisi was present during the signing ceremony.

  • October

    U.S. Army Col. James Booth, Jacksonville District commander, presents Cynthia B. Perez with the Department of the Army Certificate of Retirement for more than 32 years of outstanding and faithful service to the nation. The citation cited that her accomplishments are indicative of her humility, integrity, and hard work in representing the very best of civil service. (USACE photo by David Kimery)

    Perez culminates impactful career with Jacksonville District

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Oct. 24, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District commander U.S. Army Col. James Booth honored Cynthia B. Perez at a retirement ceremony Oct. 24, 2022 in her honor at the district’s headquarters at the Prudential Building downtown Jacksonville.   

  • August

    Hansler Bealyer (right), chief of the Real Estate Acquisition Branch, accompanies engineers Tony Smith (center) and Tim Gysan (left) on a River Acres site visit, to ensure real estate interests are appropriately addressed.

    Real estate plays important role in civil works and military projects

    More than a decade after leaving Jacksonville District as a realty specialist to assume an 18-month tour with the Installation Management Agency, Europe, Audrey Ormerod has come full circle, returning to the district as the Real Estate Division chief.
  • Portugués Dam (looking upstream) now fills the river valley as it nears completion near Ponce, Puerto Rico. Construction is expected to wrap up by the end of the year, with operational testing taking place for most of 2014.

    Portugués Dam nears completion

    Despite the threat from Tropical Storm Chantal, more than 30 residents from Ponce, Puerto Rico and surrounding areas attended a meeting July 9 to learn more about Jacksonville District’s Portugués Dam, which is nearing completion after several years of design and construction.

  • June

    Archaeologists Grady Caulk (left) and Wendy Weaver (right) conduct archaeological investigations at the 8.5 Square Mile project.

    Archaeologists help preserve the past, link to the future

    Archaeological evidence shows that the area that we now know as Florida has been occupied by man since around 12,000 B.C. Known as Paleo-indians, these inhabitants lived off of available plants and animals, including mega-fauna such as the mastodon or the 12-foot-tall giant ground sloth that once roamed Florida. Over time, Florida slowly evolved into what we see today, with climate and sea levels becoming more stabilized.

  • May

    Looking upstream to its source in the central mountains, the Río Puerto Nuevo basin drains 24 square miles of metropolitan San Juan, 75 percent of which is highly developed with a population of 250,000. The plan of improvements includes channels, high velocity channels, debris basins and modifications to bridges, in an effort to protect the population against a 100-year flood.

    An overview of projects and missions in the Antilles

    Puerto Rico, at its widest point, is 110 miles long from east to west and only 40 miles wide from north to south. The main mountain range, La Cordillera Central and the smaller cordilleras that run east-west through the center of the island are sparsely populated, but take up half of the available land. Most of the population lives in the narrow coastal band around the cordilleras. In the mountainous region above the city of Ponce in the south, slopes average 45 degrees and Cerro de Punta, the highest point of the island, at 4,393 feet, is only 14 miles from the coast.