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    Mobile District Commander Col. James DeLapp speaks to ROTC cadets during a recent visit to the Auburn University campus. DeLapp visited three Alabama universities last week to reignite relationships with both faculty members and students.

    Mobile District commander reignites relationships with local universities

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Commander Col. James DeLapp visited three Alabama universities last week to reignite relationships with faculty members and students. DeLapp met with, among others, the department heads of the University of Alabama, Auburn University and Tuskegee University.
  • Coastal Engineer Richard Allen an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler into the Apalachicola River to the broadcast system which provides data communication to the Corps of Engineers into the Apalachicola River near Wewahitchka, Florida for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The data provides feedback to basin managers to make informed decisions within the basin and provides a record of data for environmental compliance. (Photo by Frank Sanchez III)

    Data vital in monitoring ACF Basin's ecosystem

    Wewahitchka, FL. – The city of Wewahitchka, Fla., is named after the Seminole Indian name meaning "water eyes” and is the location where U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District’s coastal engineer Richard Allen is working with nature’s elements. Allen is monitoring how the bodies of water flowing through the Florida panhandle are impacting the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint (ACF) Basin and the surrounding communities.
  • Col. James DeLapp, Mobile District commander, and Lt. Col. Frankie Flowers, deputy district engineer for Latin America, traveled to Brazil, to assist the government in waterway development and management. Pictured here, DeLapp and Flowers meet with Brazil’s National Water Agency, or ANA. The ANA is legally responsible for implementing the National Water Resources Management System, created in 2000 to ensure the sustainable use of rivers and lakes.

    Mobile District officials travel to Brazil to discuss waterway development

    Two representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, visited cities in Brazil to discuss waterway development and management as well as the possibility of future partnerships, Aug. 7-11.
  • John Williams, division chief, Integration & Operations Division at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, Fl., presents Toni Ortiz, project manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, with a Munitions Directorate coin, Aug. 4. Ortiz received the coin for her outstanding support in overseeing more than $95 million in various construction projects for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

    Mobile District project manager recognized for outstanding support to Air Force Research Laboratory

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Project Manager Toni Ortiz was recently recognized by Division Chief John Williams, Integration & Operations Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory for providing exceptional support and creative solutions during several large-scale construction projects at Eglin Air Force Base, Fl.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, will be hosting an eclipse-viewing program at Carters Lake in Murray County, Ga., Aug. 21. Northbank Park, located within Carters Lake recreation area, will offer an unobstructed view of the eclipse over the lake.

    Carters Lake offers eclipse viewing program

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, will be hosting an eclipse-viewing program at Carters Lake in Murray County, Ga., Aug. 21. Northbank Park, located within Carters Lake recreation area, will offer an unobstructed view of the eclipse over the lake.
  • A Mobile District contractor works to renovate a dorm room, part of $9.7 million project to upgrade two old Army barracks on the former Ft. McClellan grounds.

    Corps completes $19.1 million for training, dorm upgrades at Center for Domestic Preparedness

    The Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, is in the midst of $19.1 million in upgrades at the FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, or CDP, in Anniston, Ala. The projects include creating a state-of-the-art training facility and renovating old Army barracks into fresh dormitories.