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    Rendering of The Dalles Dam Spillway, Columbia River, Oregon, 1954

    District takes Dam Safety exercises to community partners

    The District’s Dam Safety and Readiness sections are following an aggressive schedule of internal drills, but are also traveling to the Rogue and Willamette basins and the Columbia Gorge this summer to hold project familiarization sessions and tabletop exercises with local and county emergency managers and responders.

  • Highlights in the history of military women

    Highlights in the history of military women, courtesy of the Women in Military Service to America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
  • Carol Franson is a Regulatory project manager in the Eugene field office. She has worked for the Portland District for 12 years. The opportunity to travel prompted Carol Franson to join the Navy in 1970, a decade during which the military underwent many cultural changes in relation to the nation’s shifting social attitudes and expectations. She served as a personnelman near the end of the Vietnam War and was at the front gate of her base recording the Admiral’s interactions with protesters; saw nuclear weapons removed from the base after the war; and made the local news in San Jose, Calif., in 1976 as one of the first women who were allowed to remain in the military when she became pregnant. Toward the end of her pregnancy she had to wear civilian clothes, because the Navy did not design maternity uniforms until 1978.

    Women veterans’ history: Value of military experience evident in service to the Corps

    Women veterans in the Portland District who served in different military branches during different periods of women’s recent military history tell their stories, rightfully proud of their service to our nation.
  • Overhead bridge cranes travel the interior length of Corps powerhouses, mounted on parallel rails above the huge generators. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels across the width of the bridge crane carrying loads and suspending multi-ton parts for maintenance and installation projects. This is a smaller bridge crane, with a capacity of 300 tons; shown here as it “flies a load” in Detroit Dam’s powerhouse.

    Cranes take the loads off and up and over

    Omnipresent cranes do the heavy lifting around Corps projects, like strong workhorses on a pioneer farm. All Corps dams have one. The spillway gates at Bonneville Dam and other dams need them, and they slice the horizon of almost every Corps construction project.

  • Volunteerism - the unexpected gifts of giving

    Corps volunteer James Browne has volunteered every summer at Bonneville for nine years, and shares a reflection on his volunteer experiences.

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