Articles by JoAnne Castagna

1. Army Corps Protects Plant That Helps Protect Shore 5/1/2024

   An eroded coast puts the shoreline community at risk for flooding from storms, so the Army Corps has been replenishing the eroded sand and increasing the size of the beach to help protect the community. This has been done in part thanks to the discovery of a federally threatened coastal plant that hadn’t been seen in the region for almost a century.

2. Coastal Project Sheds Light On Importance Of Community Collaboration 11/2/2023

   In the 1970s, if you took a helicopter ride from New York City to the Montauk Point Lighthouse that sits on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, you could have spotted a woman in her 60s crawling along the 65-foot cliff under the beacon, packing and shaping earth with her bare hands and her small garden hoe.

3. Preserving An Iconic Beach For Future Generations 6/6/2023

   When Rifat Salim came to the United States from Pakistan as a young girl with her mother and siblings to reunite with her father after years of being a part, one of the first places he suggested they visit is Coney Island, a famous beach and amusement park destination in Brooklyn, New York City that’s visited by more than 5 million people annually.

4. U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Leads The Way In Natural Solutions For Coastal Flooding 3/2/2023

   Last spring, Dr. Todd Bridges and his colleagues were visiting a part of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge in California, a remote region that encompasses 45,000 acres of rivers, woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands.

5. Restoring NY-NJ Estuary Will Create Breathtaking Views And More 12/14/2022

   The Army Corps of Engineers, with partnering agencies, is using funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to revitalize marsh islands in Jamaica Bay. It’s part of a larger project to restore the degrading estuary in New York and New Jersey.

6. Restoring Bird Habitats While Sustaining Ours 8/11/2022

   This past spring, Dr. Lenore Tedesco was looking out her window at The Wetlands Institute that sits in the middle of vast marshland in Cape May County, New Jersey.

7. Coastal Storm Splits Island And Brings Communities Together 2/17/2022

   In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, was walking with a colleague and a coastal researcher around Westhampton Beach, a barrier island located on the south shore of Long Island, New York.

8. Successful Flood Project Benefits Small Village And New York City Miles Away 1/14/2022

   The Steele Brook Streambank Stabilization Project is one of many the Army Corps of Engineers has performed under its New York City Watershed Environmental Assistance Program. With the restoration of Steele Brook’s banks, there is less flooding and improved water quality, and it’s giving new life to Reservoir Park.

9. Army Corps Partners With Community For First Line Of Coastal Defense 10/9/2020

   Hurricane Isaias stormed up the east coast of the United States in early August, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 85 mph to the shores of flood-prone Port Monmouth, NJ. Immediately, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District reached out to the community to find out how they were doing and how its flood risk management project was working.

10. Army Corps Uses Data To Improve Coastal Projects Leading Into Hurricane Season 7/6/2020

    In a hotel conference room on Long Island, New York, a team of experts are processing data and information on computers. Alongside them is a large display monitor screen that's projecting the information.