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A start-up meeting for the Upper Ohio Navigation Project was held at Montgomery Locks and Dam, Nov. 9.
Pittsburgh District holds start up meeting at Montgomery Lock and Dam
Gannett Fleming Project Team Members (Left to Right) Back Row; Jim James, Paul Hale, John Kovacs, Rob Yauger, Carl Jacklitch. Front Row; Chase Carulli, Elizabeth Landowski.
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New information campaign aimed at anglers.
East Branch Promotes Water Safety for Anglers
Recently, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District employees at East Branch Lake devised a new information campaign aimed at anglers. The campaign promotes water safety to anglers using an item that they already use – fishing lures. The spoon targets the “big ones” in the lake and is designed to provide an added layer of protection for anglers, even if on a subliminal level. Each time the angler reaches to use the East Branch Lake spoon, the message imprinted on it will remind them to don a life jacket and be safe out there. According to East Branch Lake staff, the lake is a productive fishery due to its healthy aquatic and terrestrial habitat factors.
United State Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District Mission Manager for the USACE Task Force Temporary Emergency Power Team, reads the hand-written letter from JoAnn Ehmann, City of Ingleside by the Bay Mayor, as he takes a break in the Deployable Tactical Operations Systems (DTOS) vehicle at pre-positioned at the Seguin Auxiliary Air Base, Texas. (Photo by Glenn Hawkey, Pittsburgh Planning and Response Team Mission Specialist)
Temporary Emergency Power Team
United State Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District Mission Manager for the USACE Task Force Temporary Emergency Power Team, reads the hand-written letter from JoAnn Ehmann, City of Ingleside by the Bay Mayor, as he takes a break in the Deployable Tactical Operations Systems (DTOS) vehicle at pre-positioned at the Seguin Auxiliary Air Base, Texas. (Photo by Glenn Hawkey, Pittsburgh Planning and Response Team Mission Specialist)
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As one of the first visitors at the newly renovated visitors center, Ms. Hoagland, the wife of Frank Hoagland, Ohio 30th District Senator (far right), goes through the turnstile at Hannibal Lock and Dam.
Hannibal Locks and Dam Visitor Center reopens
As one of the first visitors at the newly renovated visitors center, Ms. Hoagland, the wife of Frank Hoagland, Ohio 30th District Senator (far right), goes through the turnstile at Hannibal Lock and Dam.
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FY 2018 Appropriations total $276.4 million

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, reports that the Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations will include an additional $112 million funded through the work plan for the district’s civil works program.
Published: 6/20/2018

Proposed Planned Deviation to the Water Control Plan for 2018 calendar year at Berlin Lake, Ohio

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District is seeking comments for a proposed temporary deviation to its Berlin Lake water control plan that would extend higher water levels longer in the lake.
Published: 5/23/2018

Alert: Buoys may not be in place, new PFD policy for locking through

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is informing mariners, boaters and paddlers of two notices involving river safety as Memorial Day weekend approaches – the placement of warning buoys and a new personal flotation device policy.
Published: 5/23/2018

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Pittsburgh District holds start up meeting at Montgomery Lock and Dam

A start-up meeting for the Upper Ohio Navigation Project was held at Montgomery Locks and Dam, Nov. 9.
Published: 11/28/2017

East Branch extracts a piece of history

Pittsburgh District’s East Branch Lake team extracted a fossil from the lakes shoreline, Oct. 5.
Published: 10/10/2017

Mission Complete: USACE Task Force Temporary Emergency Power team powers down in Texas

68 facilities requested power assistance from Corpus Christi all the way to Beaumont. “45 facilities received generators to power buildings, lift stations, pump stations and other similar facilities,” said Action Officer Matthew R. Slezak. Overall 66 facilities were assessed with 21 not being required and closed, and two canceled with power being restored prior to USACE assessment.
Published: 9/21/2017

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Col. John Lloyd, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh, addressed more than 150 community members at the visitor center reopening ceremony at the Hannibal Lock and Dam on the Ohio River.
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Col. John Lloyd, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh, addressed more than 150 community members at the visitor center reopening ceremony at the Hannibal Lock and Dam on the Ohio River.
  • Col. John Lloyd, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh, addressed more than 150 community members at the visitor center reopening ceremony at the Hannibal Lock and Dam on the Ohio River.
  • As one of the first visitors at the newly renovated visitors center, Ms. Hoagland, the wife of Frank Hoagland, Ohio 30th District Senator (far right), goes through the turnstile at Hannibal Lock and Dam.
  • Col. John Lloyd, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, looks at the model-sized replica of the stream-powered Maneuver Boat 35, which was used to set the wicket-type gates in the early 1970s while Lockmaster, Scott Edgar presents the exhibits.
  • Stacy Lloyd, district commander's wife, greets one of the youngest visitors at the Hannibal Lock and Dam visitor’s center, July 1.
  • Matt McKissick, project engineer, and Bob Tramontina, construction control representative, oversee the more than $880,000 shoreline reclamation project in Worthington, West Virginia. The project is designed to protect a sanitary sewer line that runs along the West Fork River bank.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is partnering with the Town of Worthington to reclaim an eroded bank along a 1,400-foot stretch of the West Fork River. The more than $880,000 project is designed to protect a sanitary sewer line that runs along the riverbank. The project included installing R5 rip rap at the toe and R3 rip rap on the bank to help stop the erosion and protect the sewer line.
  • The 2017 Fish Attractor Program event resulted in securing hundreds of trees in the lake. A team of determined volunteers came together at Tygart Lake in Grafton, West Virginia to participate in the event, Feb. 25. Volunteer and the Tygart Lake staff secured more than 335 trees to the lakebed.
  • Nine students and an instructor from the New Castle School of Trades Maintenance Technology visited Shenango Lake to learn about the 2kW Solar Tracker in the Shenango Recreation Area, Jan. 27. During the visit, the students learned about installation of the tracker, its major components, and some of the challenges encountered when building the tracker. The tracker was installed in 2009 as the Leadership Development Program class project.
  • On a cold and snowy day in February, members of the district's dive team conducted operations to inspect and measure the lower sill of the 600-foot chamber at Montgomery Locks and Dam on the Ohio River. The measurements were requested by the Inland Navigation Design Center to assist them in the final design for the new bulkhead sill system. The new sill system is expected to be installed during fiscal year 2018. The team completed the mission in half the time and without incident.
  • During periods of high rainfall, the sewage pipes are inundated with surface water and overflow into local bodies of water. These discharges are called combined sewer overflows (CSOs).
  • Effective for the 2017 recreation season at Crooked Creek, the park office will no longer process pavilion reservation.
  • Lockmaster Willie Maynard at New Cumberland Locks and Dam walks along the middle wall toward the downstream end of the facility where crews are working to fix a hydraulic failure that closed the upper Ohio River to commercial traffic.
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