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  • December

    131024-A-QP520-016 - District Purchasing Agent Ruth Johnson explains people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) or “brittle bone” disease like her are like everyone else – they experience childhood, have friends, travel, and do many things just like people that don’t have OI. They just do some things differently because of physical differences.

    Ruth Johnson shares noteworthy yet normal story at National Disability Awareness Month luncheon

    Walla Walla District purchasing agent Ruth Johnson was keynote speaker at the District’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month luncheon on Oct. 24. The theme was “Because we are EQUAL to the task.”

  • July

    Whitman County Emergency Management, Sheriff and vessel, and Public Health; Nez Perce County Sheriff and vessel; Asotin County Fire and Rescue and vessel; Washington Department of Ecology’s Spill Preparedness and Prevention response team, and Corps personnel and vessels from Lower Granit, Little Goose, and Clarkston participated in the June 26 oil spill training exercise.

    Corps holds multi-agency oil spill training exercise at Lower Granite Lock and Dam June 26

    As part of its environmental stewardship efforts, the Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expanded its 2013 annual oil spill training exercise at Lower Granite Lock and Dam on the lower Snake River. Several county agencies adjacent to the Lower Granite pool participated in this exercise in the first such collaborative training effort. Training with other agencies enhances each agency’s readiness.

  • June

    Sustainability - Hydroelectric power is clean, reliable, efficient, flexible and renewable

    Hydroelectric power is clean, reliable, efficient, flexible, renewable and sustainable. The Corps is the Nation’s largest producer of hydropower, and one of the largest in the world.

  • All American Al

    While most people are still sleeping at 3:30 a.m., Alford Orman, 79, is waving goodbye to his wife
  • Mill Creek Project Office

    Mill Creek team opens new, sustainable building

    Rainy weather couldn’t stop Mill Creek Dam and Bennington Lake’s grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony April 19 to celebrate the completion of their new office building, the Walla Walla District’s first civil works construction project built to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) sustainable-building standards.

  • May

    Life Jacket Loaner Board

    Life jacket loaner stations can save lives, if used

    Public safety is something the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) takes very seriously. From the project level up to headquarters, the Corps is constantly thinking of ways to better provide a friendly and safe experience for our visitors. The success of these innovative public safety campaigns and strategies can be seen in the reduction in fatalities on Corps projects in the past 40 years but, unfortunately, the number of fatalities has leveled off to an average of 164 per year for the past 14 years.

  • April

    Walla Walla District motorboat instructor, Paul Pence, showing District Office civil engineer, Arron Schuff, how to properly change a boat propeller at the District Motorboat Licensing course. All Corps of Engineers employees who operate USACE boats/vessels less than 26 feet in length are required to be trained, tested and licensed in accordance with recognized Federal, state and local laws and standards.

    Start the spring season right with a boat safety check

    You can outfit your boat with the required safety equipment and know how to use it.

  • March

    Walla Walla District - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    District, LDP marching toward a more sustainable future

    Members of Walla Walla’s Leadership Development Program (LDP) are helping the District march toward a more sustainable future.