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  • January

    Col. Adam Czekanski, district commander, attended a meeting to sign a Project-Partnership Agreement with officials to kickstart the project. Signing the partnership agreement is the first step in improving the treatment plant’s efficiency while reducing inflow and infiltration within the collection system in Tyler and Wetzel counties. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District entered a partnership agreement with the city of Paden City, West Virginia, to upgrade sanitary sewer collection and treatment facilities as part of a $2 million Section 219 Environmental Infrastructure project, Thursday, Jan. 6.

    Corps upgrades Paden City’s wastewater treatment systems

    Ever had a problem with the septic tank in your yard? The cost to replace it, and consequences if you do not, can really stink – even more so when the problem is on a community-wide level. That is why the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is partnering with Paden City to upgrade the sanitary sewer collection and treatment facilities in Tyler and Wetzel counties as part of a $2 million environmental infrastructure project.

  • October

    Solarizing 350 feet of soil near the Lakeview recreation area at Mosquito Creek Lake (U.S. Army photo by Jamison Conley).

    Using sunshine, plastic, and pollination to help the environment

    Can plastic help birds, bees, butterflies, and bass? It can, if the plastic is part of a process called solarization, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ staff at Mosquito Creek Lake are using it to improve the entire regional watershed.

  • April

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    Pittsburgh District hosts multiple tree-planting, trash cleanup events throughout Earth Day

    Earth Day 2021 began as a frosty morning with a layer of snow powdering logs and vehicles. Not even the wind biting at bare skin peeking out from the layers of jackets and face masks stopped volunteers from helping restore and beautify one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District lakes.
  • Members of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources with cooperation of the American Chestnut Foundation, and employees from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District partnered to plant more than 100 chestnut tree seedlings at Mosquito Creek Lake, March 31.

    Hybrid-chestnut trees planted at Mosquito Creek Lake

    Members of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources with cooperation of the American Chestnut Foundation, and employees from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District partnered to plant more than 100 chestnut tree seedlings at Mosquito Creek Lake, March 31.
  • Fifteen Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildland Firefighters from Crawford, Venango and Mercer counties conducted a prescribed and controlled burn on U.S. Army Corps of Engineer land leased to them at Shenango Lake March 29.

    Shenango Conducts Prescribed Burn and Fire Management

    Fifteen Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildland Firefighters from Crawford, Venango and Mercer counties conducted a prescribed and controlled burn on U.S. Army Corps of Engineer land leased to them at Shenango Lake March 29.

  • December

    A workboat rests on the main chamber lock wall as repair crews above work to fix New Cumberland Locks and Dam's hydraulic system.

    Locked Up! Army Corps Lock Operators Battle Bone-Chilling Temps to Quickly Re-open Ohio River Navigation

    Bone-chilling winds cut through the crisp December air as operators and mechanics at a downed Ohio River lock scrambled on the early morning of Dec. 12 to isolate a hydraulic line break that shutdown navigation.

  • September

    In 1969, the former Department of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Mine Reclamation initiated a program called "Operation Scarlift." A lime treatment plant was established at Swamp Creek and was viewed as a short-term solution to the problem.

    Dead Sea Savior

    Once known as the Dead Sea of Elk County, East Branch Lake is having a resurgence of life.

  • June

    The snow and cold didn’t stop volunteers from participating in Loyalhanna Lake’s celebration of Earth Day at the Bush Recreation Area, April 25

    Volunteers beautify Loyalhanna

    The snow and cold didn’t stop volunteers from participating in Loyalhanna Lake’s celebration of Earth Day at the Bush Recreation Area, April 25.
  • Tionesta Lake teamed with the local sheriff’s department, fishing club, and others to clean up Tionesta Lake, April 25.

    Earth Day celebrated by Tionesta Lake

    Tionesta Lake teamed with the local sheriff’s department, fishing club, and others to clean up Tionesta Lake, April 25.

  • August

    In honor of National Public Lands Day, volunteers of all ages participated in the environmental improvement projects with Rangers Christina Fox and Carly Heatherly, Aug. 16 at Stonewall Jackson Lake, West Virginia.

    Stonewall Jackson Lake celebrates National Public Lands Day

    Story and photos by Christina Fox, Stonewall Jackson Lake                             In honor of
  • On June 14, Tionesta Lake ranger staff teamed up with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Boy Scout Troop 82, and some local community volunteers to build fish attractors for the lake.

    New fish attractors at Tionesta Lake

    On June 14, Tionesta Lake ranger staff teamed up with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Boy

  • May

    Sportsmen by the hundreds show up to local streams with hopes of catching a trout on opening day of trout season in Tionesta, Pa., at the stocked Ross Run Fish Habitat Improvement Area, Apr. 12.

    Let the angling begin

    Hundreds of anglers showed up to participate in the opening day of trout season at the stocked Ross Run Fish Habitat Improvenment Area, April 12.`
  • Tionesta Lake Project Staff and 10 of their children, ages eight to15 participated in National Take your Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 24. Keeping with this year's theme, Plant a Seed; Grow a Future, the children planted two types of saplings, American Chestnuts and Sawtooth Oaks.

    Plant a seed; grow a future at Tionesta Lake

    Tionesta Lake Project Staff and 10 of their children, ages eight to15 participated in National Take your Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 24. In keeping with this year’s theme, Plant a seed; Grow a Future, the group planted two types of saplings, Sawtooth Oaks and American Chestnuts.