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  • December

    Military Munitions Response Program Manager Jason Blair conducts fieldwork at the former Umatilla Chemical Depot in Hermiston, Oregon, Nov. 18, 2025. The team conducted visual inspections of the buffer area, looking for signs of munitions. The area must pass inspection and be declared safe before it can be handed over to the Oregon National Guard’s Rees Training Center for use as training grounds. (U.S. Army photo by Makenzie Leonard)

    Walking the line: USACE team ensures safe terrain for future soldiers

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Military Munition Response Program is working to clear a 416-acre swath of property for the Oregon National Guard at the former Umatilla Army Ammunition Depot that had been identified in 2023 as potentially containing unexploded ordnance derived from the destruction of stockpiled munitions at the adjacent demolition range.

  • August

    Using the metal detectors of the day, USACE contractors in 2005, look for munitions at the former Lowry Bombing and Gunnery range near Denver, Colo.

    FUDS: Then to now... still charging ahead

    In 1982 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made the clean-up of Baird McGuire the one of its top priorities. Who did they call? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Omaha District and its Environmental Branch, which took the “Superfund” assignment, hit the ground running, and more than 30 years later is renowned for its comprehensive expertise and clean up capabilities relative to hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste sites.
  • A statue in Vail, Colo., honors the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, that trained at Camp Hale, Colo., near the resort town. Pete Seibert, who helped to start the ski resort served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

    Military Munitions Remediation at Camp Hale: the project, the history, the public

    Through the Department of Defense’s Formerly Used Defense Sites mission and under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is cleaning up contamination, addressing military munitions, and removing safety hazards caused by past activities near Camp Hale, Colo., where the Army trained for winter warfare from 1942 to 1965.

News from around USACE

Public Notice Announcing the Reissuance of the Nationwide Permits and the Caribbean District Final Regional Conditions
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On January 8, 2026, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published a final action in the Federal Register (91 FR 768) announcing the reissuance of 56 existing nationwide permits (NWPs) and one new...
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Strong Roots, Safer Waters: Cypress Trees Planted at Thurmond Lake
2/17/2026
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Savannah District recently planted bald cypress trees at J. Strom Thurmond Lake, also known as Clarks Hill Lake. The trees were installed at six hazardous shoal...
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