Mid-Columbia Corps workers deploy to help with hurricane response

Eleven Army Corps of Engineer employees from the Walla Walla District are deploying to Texas to help with emergency-power needs after Hurricane Harvey.

The Walla Walla District maintains one of the Corps’ seven emergency power-response teams of volunteers ready to deploy when disaster strikes.

One civil engineer from the Corps’ Walla Walla district headquarters office has left for Dallas to serve as a water-management expert.

A supervisory electrical engineer from Lower Granite Dam near Pomeroy will serve as an action officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s emergency operations center in Austin. A contracting officer from the Walla Walla office also is deploying to the Austin center as a mission specialist.

Other Walla Walla District employees are being sent to FEMA’s Incident Support Base at an Air Force field near San Antonio, where the Corps will do power planning and response work.

Employees from the Walla Walla office, Ice Harbor Dam near Burbank, Little Goose Dam near Starbuck and Mill Creek Dam in Walla Walla are deploying there.

This story was originally published August 31, 2017 at 5:44 PM with the headline "Mid-Columbia Corps workers deploy to help with hurricane response."