Portland District News

Lyle Wold: 50 years of public service, would he ever retire?

Amber Tilton — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:18:00 GMT

Army veteran and civil servant Lyle Wold is retiring and explains his commitment to the nation after over 50 years of combined federal service.

What’s it like being a working mom in 2022?

Chris Gaylord — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:29:26 GMT

We asked our Bonneville Dam Resident Engineer, Martha Brandl, who balances her full-time position as a rockstar on our team with raising three children—including two twins. (That’s soon to be five, as Martha is expecting a second set of twins in May.)

Climbers inspect Bonneville Lock's miter gate

Tom Conning, Public Affairs Office — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:37:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains and assesses the locks along the Columbia and Snake rivers on an annual basis to keep an estimated $23 billion dollars’ worth of commerce flowing.

That sounds fishy: demonized trash fish finally gets some respect

Tom Conning, Public Affairs Office — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:30:00 GMT

Leaves are changing, the weather is cooling and getting wetter, and Fred Meyer is stocking its shelves with Christmas decorations, which means it’s October. Instead of skipping ahead to winter holidays, let’s fall back and celebrate autumn and Halloween by highlighting a fish that has been demonized in the past, partly for its looks, and partly for our past perceptions of it as a blood-sucking, bottom-feeding trash fish*: the Pacific lamprey.

Dam, that’s a lot of work: Bonneville buildings get face lift, cupolas

Tracy E. Schwartz, PME-C, Historian — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:45:00 GMT

Portland District put new roofs – one of the most vital parts of a building in the rainy northwest – on the Bonneville Project Office and Auditorium buildings, which are included in the list of National Historic Landmarks.