* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

Downriver of Grand Coulee, each dam's reservoir is closely regulated by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various Washington public utility districts to ensure flow, flood control, and power generation objectives are met.

In some cases, the Army Corps of Engineers transports juvenile fish downstream by truck or river barge.

* US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, USA

Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.

* 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

A Stuart family tradition says he deliberately degraded his academic performance in his final year to avoid service in the elite, but dull, Corps of Engineers.

* 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains parks on Old Hickory Lake and Percy Priest Lake.

The Panama Canal was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 ; the existing 83-kilometer ( 50-mi.

Stained glass of Lee's life in the National Cathedral, depicting his time at West Point, his service in the Army Corps of Engineers, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and his death

At the time, the focus of the curriculum was engineering ; the head of the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the school and the superintendent was an engineering officer.

In June 1829, Lee was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.

* Historic photos of Army Corps of Engineers lock and dam projects on the Sabine, 1910-20s

San Francisco Bay's profile changed dramatically in the late 19th century and again with the initiation of dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 20th century.

Previously, the bay waters and harbor facilities only allowed for ships with a draft of, but dredging activities undertaken by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with the Port of Oakland succeeded in providing access for vessels with a draft.

A race introduced in the episode " The Jihad ", represented by a character named M3 Green, is named the Nasat in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers e-book novellas.

The Starfleet Engineering Corps ( also called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ) is mentioned in several episodes in conjunction with projects such as hollowing out the underground laboratory complex inside the Regula I asteroid in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the design of the Yellowstone-class Runabout in the alternate timeline in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ", and devising a defense against the Breen energy-dampening weapon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " When It Rains ..." As a result of these successes, Starfleet engineers have gained a reputation as the undisputed masters of technological adaptation and modification.

Additionally, Pocket Books has published a series of eBooks and novels in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series.

* March 16 – Army Corps of Engineers re-established.

* February 26 – Continental Army Corps of Engineers disbanded.

Most of the levees are maintained by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of California completed reports as early as the 1870s and 1880s that detailed the geography and water supplies of the Sacramento, Feather, Yuba and Bear rivers.

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

In any case, our Peace Corps personnel should be offered as technician helpers in development projects of the U.N. and other international agencies.

About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official of the corps.

Can religious agencies use Government funds and Peace Corps personnel in their projects and still preserve the constitutional requirement on separation of church and state??

Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa provides environmental stewardship and service-learning opportunities to youth and young adults while accomplishing conservation, natural resource management projects and emergency response work through its Young Adult Program and the Summer Youth Program.

The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps ( VYCC ) is a non-profit, youth service and education organization that hires Corps Members, aged 16 – 24, to work on high-priority conservation projects in Vermont.

Through these work projects, Corps Members develop a strong work ethic, strengthen their leadership skills, and learn how to take personal responsibility for their actions.

One of the most popular of all New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps ( 1933 – 1943 ), which sent two million poor young men to work in rural and wilderness areas, primarily on conservation projects.

The Flood Control Act of 1944 also gave the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over flood control and irrigation projects and thus played a major role in disaster recovery from flooding.

* Historic photos of Army Corps of Engineers projects on the Neches River from 1910-20s

Corps professionals use the knowledge and skills honed on both military and civil projects to support the U. S. and local communities in the areas of real estate, contracting, mapping, construction, logistics, engineering, and management experience.

Four billion gallons of water per day are drawn from the Corps ' 136 multi-use flood control projects comprising of water storage, making it one of the United States ' largest water supply agencies.

The Corps of Engineers is the nation's largest provider of outdoor recreation, operating more than 2, 500 recreation areas at 463 projects ( mostly lakes ) and leasing an additional 1, 800 sites to state or local park and recreation authorities or private interests.

The Civil Works environmental mission that ensures all Corps projects, facilities and associated lands meet environmental standards.

One of the main projects for the Army Corps of Engineers was constructing railroads and bridges, which Union forces took advantage of because railroads and bridges provided access to resources and industry.

In civilian projects, the Corps became the lead federal flood control agency and significantly expanded its civil works activities, becoming among other things, a major provider of hydroelectric energy and the country's leading provider of recreation ; its role in responding to natural disasters also grew dramatically.

* Marine Design Center ( CEMDC ) — provides total project management including planning, engineering, and shipbuilding contract management in support of Corps, Army, and national water resource projects in peacetime, and augments the military construction capacity in time of national emergency or mobilization

Some of the Corps of Engineers ' civil works projects have been characterized in the press as being pork barrel or boondoggles such as the New Madrid Floodway Project and the New Orleans flood protection.

Review of Corps of Engineers ' projects has also been criticized for its lack of impartiality.

Senator Russ Feingold and Senator John McCain sponsored an amendment requiring peer review of Corps projects to the Water Resources Development Act of 2006, proclaiming " efforts to reform and add transparency to the way the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers receives funding for and undertakes water projects.