Friday, May 21, 2021 is Wear Your Life Jacket at Work Day! This social media video was produced for current and future use in anticipation of National Safe Boating Week, May 22-28, 2021. Proposed copy: Did you remember to bring your life jacket to work? You just never know when that water is going to hit you, or you might hit the water. Comment below with photos of you or your coworkers for Wear Your Life Jacket at Work Day. #PleaseWearIt #USACE #LifeJacket #KnowTakeWear MORE INFO: https://rb.gy/2rpjfy (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

The campgrounds and recreational areas at East Branch Lake are reopening Memorial Day weekend. The Pittsburgh District will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by an open house event at the East Branch Clarion River Lake on May 27. The reopening celebrates the dam’s return to normal operations and its continued ability to reduce floods, improve downstream water quality and supports the environmental ecosystem. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret) MORE INFO: https://go.usa.gov/xHfZq

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District annual Commendatory Awards will recognize those employees/teams who were involved in specific acts or activities which contributed to the welfare and morale of co-workers or enhanced the reputation or mission of the Pittsburgh District. We will recognize award recipients at the Corps Day celebration. The District Awards Committee will recommend outstanding candidates who meet a high degree of excellence in the specific criteria from those nominations submitted. Multiple award recipients are possible in each category. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District has seen an increasing number of projects to help small and distressed communities meet their water-related infrastructure challenges. The oversees projects funded under the Water Resource Development Act of 1936. WRDA’s funds helps towns without a proper sewage system, where discharge flows into common drains. It helps townships and municipalities with aging waterlines that break frequently. It funds small cities lacking sufficient storm sewers to take floodwaters away from the streets. Small towns in western Pennsylvania, parts of West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, and New York face real infrastructure challenges and lack the tax revenue to cover repair costs long-term – this is where WRDA and the Army Corps of Engineers can help. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

Park rangers at Crooked Creek Lake hosted a volunteer tree-planting Earth Day event in Ford City, Pennsylvania, April 22, 2021. Approximately 20 volunteers attended the event to plant 200 tree saplings, which included Eastern White Pine and Swamp White Oak, donated by West Penn Power. Crooked Creek is one of 16 flood control reservoirs within the Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Several reservoirs and parks throughout the Pittsburgh district celebrated Earth Day by hosting either a volunteer cleanup or tree-planting day. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

Any time you drink a glass of water, do you wonder about the water you're drinking? What's in it? Who is polluting it? This social media video from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is intended to help you pause and think about how your actions impact the water you drink. If you litter the Earth, that waste will end up in the water. If you care about your body, take care of the waterways. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

Social Media Video: If you wouldn’t feed it to your kids, why throw trash into the waters your children drink? Starting this weekend (April 17, 201), the Pittsburgh District, US Army Corps of Engineers, will host several #EarthDay cleanup events at our various reservoirs and parks to #RestoreOurEarth #USACE Earth Day this year is April 22, 2021 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

After seven years of construction at the dam of East Branch Clarion River Lake, and more than a decade of lowered water levels, the reservoir and dam will reopen in late May with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an open house event. The dam was first built in 1952, but in 1957 a school-bus-sized void was discovered in the earthen dam. Some repairs took place in the years that followed, but the most recent construction projects at East Branch began in 2014. The corps lowered the lake’s water level by 20 feet in 2008 when they identified that the dam needed repairs. As a result of construction, the park’s campgrounds had closed, the boating seasons shortened, and other boating activities limited. Fishing remained open on the lake, but the ramp near the dam closed off during much of the project. Pittsburgh District will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on May 27, 2021. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)

#WaterSafetyWednesday: the Lower Mon project is going along smoothly! Kirk McWilliams, resident engineer at Charleroi Locks and Dams, shares an update on Feb. 17, 2021.