https://www.spn.usace.army.mil San Francisco District News RSS Feed en-us Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:21:45 GMT Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:14:36 GMT https://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/3949696/san-francisco-district-planning-team-applies-nature-based-solutions-to-roi-namu/ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District’s knowledge of and push for Engineering with Nature principles and designs reached a new high as the district’s EWN expertise jumped an ocean all the way to Roi-Namur, the second largest island of the Kwajalein Atoll in the western central Pacific Ocean. It’s part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and it lies 2,100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu and about 4,200 nautical miles southwest of San Francisco. On Oct. 11, a San Francisco District project development team submitted its preliminary EWN and non-EWN design plans to protect facilities against large waves to the USACE Honolulu District to present to the U.S. Army Garrison – Kwajalein Atoll and U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. <br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2024/Oct/29/2003573458/115/75/0/241029-A-BF997-0001.JPG' alt='This is a computerized graphic of an island with numerous types of trees and bushes on it in front of a gabion (rock wall) and a concrete seawall in front of the ocean.' /> <br /> Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:21:45 GMT Tammy L. Reed https://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/3949696/san-francisco-district-planning-team-applies-nature-based-solutions-to-roi-namu/ San Francisco District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Management Environmental Overseas People U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division