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  • January

    Erica Janocha, Savannah District biologist, writes “Janocha Key” in the sand on the new Altamaha bird island.

    Savannah District, GA DNR create bird sanctuary on Altamaha River

    SAVANNAH, GA. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District have partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to use reclaimed dredge material from the Altamaha River to create a new bird island this month. The island will provide roosting and foraging grounds for sea and shore birds, spawning areas for horseshoe crabs, and protection of nearby salt marsh habitats.

  • December

    Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Georgia steams near Fort Jackson in the Savannah River Dec. 1862.

    USACE Savannah District completes CSS Georgia recovery

    SAVANNAH, GA. – After years of observation, recovery, and careful conservation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District completed the archaeological data recovery of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad gunboat scuttled in the Savannah River near Fort Jackson during the Civil War, this month.

  • October

    Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Blansett, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division, and Command Sgt. Maj. Darien Lawshea, U.S. Army Signal Regiment, tour the site of Fort Gordon's new U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence Sept. 29.

    Fort Gordon Cyber Center to enhance Army Cyber, Signal Corps readiness

    FORT GORDON, GA. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Blansett, U.S. Army Signal Regiment Command Sgt. Maj. Darien Lawshea, and USACE engineers Jan Bovier and Phil Payne toured the site of Fort Gordon's new U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence Sept. 29.

  • September

    Members of the 542nd Engineer Detachment, Forward Engineer Support Team—Advanced (FEST-A), pose for a group photo at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, Apr. 8, 2021. U.S. Army photo by Alfredo Barraza

    District welcomes 542nd FEST-A Team home

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District 542nd Engineer Detachment, Forward Engineering Support Team – Advanced (FEST-A) were welcomed back from deployment by family and friends at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport, Sept. 15.

  • August

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assists federal and state partners by providing temporary emergency power to critical public facilities in declared U.S. states, territories, and reservations when commercial power is interrupted by manmade or natural disasters.

    Temporary emergency power team readies for peak hurricane season

    SAVANNAH, GA. – More than 20 volunteers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District completed a 3-day virtual power response team training course Aug. 27.

  • May

    From right: Lt. Col. John Grabowski, deputy commander for cyber transformation at Fort Gordon, talks with Col. Daniel Hibner, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, and Ken Gray, chief of Construction Division at USACE Savannah District, at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, N.C., or MOTSU, following Hurricane Florence’s landfall in North Carolina Sept. 20, 2018. Photo by Russ Wicke, USACE Savannah District.

    Building success, one relationship at a time

    The buzz from Fort Gordon’s Cyber Center of Excellence campus is a little quieter this week -- not on account of a pause in construction, but because a key component of the massive, multiple-agency project is missing.
  • Hydro Survey Team

    Hydro Survey mission a key part of harbor operations

    The Brunswick and Savannah Harbors are essential to supporting the nation’s commerce. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District Hydro Survey section has responsibility for ensuring these and other waterways remain passable.

  • March

    Hear remarks by Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, specific to support by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the national Coronavirus response. These clips are excerpts from today's press conference in the Pentagon. The full event, including remarks by Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy; Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville; Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite; and Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle can also be viewed here: https://facebook.com/DeptofDefense/videos/2643688735757461/

    Army to help convert vacant buildings into hospitals as COVID-19 spreads

    Army leaders announced plans to quickly convert unused buildings into makeshift hospitals in multiple states, starting in New York, as hospitals brace for medical shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, construction is set to kick off as the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan will be refitted into a 1,000-bed hospital and an additional 1,800 field medical stations, officials said. Soldiers from the New York National Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and civilian employees will prepare the medical facility, slated to begin operating in a week to 10 days. The race against the virus is “an unbelievably complicated problem” that needs a simple solution, said Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, commanding general of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  • Memo from the Director of Contracting re: COVID-19

    For USACE Contractors, As the Director of Contracting for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, I wanted to personally reach out to all of you and let you know that we are actively monitoring the situation in regards to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Attached is the guidance we received on planning for potential Novel Coronavirus Contract Impacts.

  • February

    Drying material in DMCA 12A

    DMCAs – Savannah’s solution for placing dredged material

    The Corps of Engineers has been dredging sediment from the Savannah River since the 19th century. A crucial requirement for maintaining a deepened harbor is having a designated placement area for sediment. The Corps calls these designated areas “dredged material containment areas” (DMCA). And since the Corps must dredge miles of the Savannah River year after year, large containment areas are required.

  • January

    tree recycling at Thurmond lake

    Corps lakes offer Christmas trees a second chance

    Evergreen trees aren’t typically considered aquatic vegetation, but if they’re used as Christmas trees in the Savannah River Basin, chances are they’ll continue “bearing fruit” under water. Rather than have old Christmas trees go to the landfill, rangers with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs at Hartwell and J. Strom Thurmond lakes collect the trees in December and January each year to make fish habitats in the reservoirs.
  • FUDS Program cleanup

    Duds are preferred in FUDS

    If it goes BOOM, that's bad. If you think it might go boom, then your property might qualify for the FUDS Program. In the southeastern United States, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, the Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Program is overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Savannah District.

  • December

    The new $59.5 million hangar currently under construction at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., will support the new KC-46A Pegasus, a mid-air refueling tanker set to arrive at the installation in the summer of 2020.

    Corps constructs new hangar for Aerial Refueling Aircraft at Seymour Johnson AFB

    Work continues on a new $59.5 million state-of-the-art maintenance hangar at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The facility, under construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, will support the new KC-46A Pegasus, a mid-air refueling tanker set to arrive at the installation in the summer of 2020.

  • November

    CCoE update

    Cyber Center of Excellence update

    With more than $1.6 billion slated for construction, Fort Gordon now hosts the largest military
  • 2019 costume contest

    USACE – Savannah District Halloween costume contest

    It wasn't about candy. It wasn't about fright. It was all about having fun. And “it” wasn’t a clown

  • October

    Another interior view of the Thomas Koritz Clinic. Courtesy photo

    USACE clinic project recognized for excellence by the Air Force

    The $48 million Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Medical Clinic, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, earned the 2019 United States Air Force (USAF) Design Award for facility design.

  • September

    The Augusta Training Wall, indicted by the white line down the center of the river, runs from near Eighth Street in downtown to 1,800 feet past the Boathouse Community Center in Augusta, Georgia.

    Corps kicks off Augusta Training Wall Disposition Study

    AUGUSTA, Ga. – Geologists from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District began collecting soil samples from the bottom of the Savannah River recently as part of a disposition study to determine the cost and benefit of removing an old underwater training wall in the Savannah River.

  • August

    Aquatic plants into Russell Lake

    Aquatic plants give shelter to young fish

    Finding a quiet and safe place for a nursery tops the priorities for new parents, be they humans or
  • Soil Sample

    Identifying the presence of wetlands

    The Mission of the USACE Savannah District Regulatory Division is to protect the nation’s aquatic

  • July

    Twin Pines Mine Phase I

    Corps to accept public comments until Sept. 12 on mining near Okefenokee

    Twin Pines Minerals is proposing to construct and operate a sand derived heavy minerals mine in