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Connecticut National Guard Engineers Bridge Tigris River
A bead of sweat drips off Capt. Chuck Taylor’s brow and into the dirt that lines the banks of the Tigris River. He tells the medic keep an eye on the Soldiers in the unit and make sure they stay hydrated. It’s 7 p.m. and the temperature is hovering just over 100 degrees. Both U.S. and Iraqi forces pull 360-degree security while the 250th Engineers Multi-Role Bridge Company, Connecticut Army National Guard, continued to work night and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Karkh Waste Water Treatment Plant to be rebuilt
In an effort to restore clean water to the citizens of southern Baghdad, and virtually millions of Iraqi’s further downstream, members of the Joint Reconstruction Operations Center are working together with agencies from U.S. Division-Center, the Government of Iraq and Japan to refurbish the Karkh Waste Water Treatment Plant. Originally, the mission of the JROC, established in 2006 by U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, was to coordinate and synchronize reconstruction efforts throughout Baghdad. That mission has been expanded in order to assist people working for the U.S. State Department and U.S. military in finalizing essential service infrastructure projects in and around the province of Baghdad. In 2005, the Karkh Waste Water Treatment Plant was attacked by insurgents and subsequently looted. The attack left the plant inoperable, causing untreated sewage … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Bridging the Tigris
On the banks of the mighty Tigris River, a track excavator slowly inched forward, pushing a land-based on ramp towards a pontoon suspension bridge. Simple pins, connecting the two, marked the Aug. 31 completion of a spectacular engineering effort from three separate engineer entities that took a month to complete. Engineers of the 225th Engineer Brigade, the 555th Engineer Brigade and elements of the Headquarters, 4th and 5th Iraqi Army Field Engineer Regiments have literally bridged the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Clean Water From the Tigris River
Looking at the murky, muddy waters of the Tigris River, it seems hard to imagine swimming in the river, much less drinking its waters. But minutes after a broken valve was repaired at the Tuwaitha Water Treatment Plant, the treated river water gushed from a pump, as crystal clear and potable as bottled water. The Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, celebrated bringing the water treatment … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Hahwar Canal System Clean Up
It is difficult for Americans to appreciate the significance of steps such as a canal clean up. We take clean water for granted and do all we can to ensure that our waterways are usable. In Iraq, it is a different matter. A simple thing like cleaning up a canal system has many ramifications, people’s health, agriculture, the local economy, and all those things that these basic improvements then create. Local Iraqis are cleaning the 250-kilometer Hahwar canal system to improve the distribution of water from the Tigris River to southwest Wasit Province. The canal system provides water to 240,000 donums (59,000 acres) of crop land, roughly 10 percent of the arable land in Wasit, which is home to over 2,000 farmers. “It’s been almost two years since the canals were cleaned, and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Irrigation Restored in Troubled Area
For thousands of years, the people in the rural areas surrounding Baghdad relied on canals to distribute water from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers to farms in the area. It is these farms which sustain the people and provide fresh food to the city. Since the 1960s the irrigation infrastructure fell into disrepair due to lack of maintenance and illegal tapping, said Capt. Mark Gillman, an engineer assigned to the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. When violence struck the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad in 2003, irrigation systems were further degraded and the people who lived and worked on the land suffered. The hardest blow to the infrastructure hit in 2007 when a mortar round destroyed Pump Station 1. This pump station lies directly between … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Tigris River to Provide Drinking Water for Iraqis
Bottled water or tap water? For several years this has been an unfiltered debate in the United States. Now it is a debate for the citizens of Abu Ajil, Iraq. A water treatment facility project was recently completed in Abu Ajil, which is located just outside of Tikrit, Iraq. The facility will provide a better purified source of water for more than 15,000 Iraqi citizens who inhabit the famed Fertile Crescent region. For thousands of years, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Coalition forces visit water company in Kut
Coalition forces conducted an assessment of the al Kut Water Company April 6. Lt. Col. Mario E. Murcia, an engineer with El Salvador’s Cuscatlán Battalion’s Civil Military Cooperation team, visited the water company to assess its capacity and maintenance. The water company supplies 300,000 residents of the city with water, said Diaa Mohammed Obed, an engineer and supervisor of the water company. Using five pumps, water is carried from the Tigris River to the plant for treatment. Once … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Our Allies, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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