This week’s cover story on the U.S. Army Army Corps’s Corps mission to clean the devastating damage suffered by Los Angeles county during the Eaton and Palisada fires this year a long history of complainting the agency’s activities continues. It includes the work of the body to transform the Mississippi River into a significant shipping channel and, since the end of 1800, to control its flood, as well as the military construction to support the troops in two world wars and in other world raids, and to deploy an emergency elimination of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year.
Although the best known for the control of floods, the internal water and the protection of the environment, the post-stresses of the body of the body are those that the ENR journalists are often covered, this week the fires of Los Angeles reported by the publisher in CAP Scott Blair (see Story, p. 22). “The body plays a diverse role in the military and beyond,” he says. “In the last ten years I have been in the field that covers disasters, it has been the entity that uses FEMA to clean and manage a lot of recovery and reconstruction of work.” Other devastating disasters are Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 and Hurricane Harvey Flood Damage to Houston the same year.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the devastating flood of the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans and damage to the Gulf Coast. From this catastrophe, the body implemented the system of reduction of damage of damage to damage and damage of storm of New Orleans, a program of $ 14.5 million completed in 2018 that has helped substantially to reduce the risk of flooding in the city and in the region and is an example for other cities (see Viewpoint, p. 68).
After California fires, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and FEMA did an environmental cleaning of danger, which took about a month, and hired the body to take care of the rest of the cleaning effort, including the hiring of industry contractors together with County Government officials.
In his experiences with the body, Blair claims that he was often impressed with the management and dedication of his team members, especially when the deployments that often lasted up to a month were made with perfect transitions and excellent communication. “As an institution,” he concludes, “the body is still unique.”
