During the late 1980s and early 1990s, personnel of the Southwestern Division (SWD) of the U.S.. Army Corps of Engineers carried out their diverse responsibilities amid sweeping transitions for the entire organization. Based in Dallas, Texas, the division serves Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, southern Kansas and Missouri, and eastern Colorado for civil works, and New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana for military construction and emergency management activities. The division's military construction activities ranged from strategic facilities for sophisticated defense aircraft in arid New Mexico to rehabilitating a major U.S. Army hospital in southern Texas. Its civil works varied from inland and coastal navigation projects in Arkansas and Texas to restoration of pre-Columbian irrigation systems in New Mexico. Major floods in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas punctuated the division's emergency management responses for the period. From its beginning in 1937 through the mid-1990s, SWD provided a variety of services to eight States. The division's area of operations stretched from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Rocky Mountains, comprising over 16 percent of the nation's land area and encompassing 10 percent of the populace. SWD employs approximately 4,200 civilians and 35 military personnel, all of whom are engaged in water resources development, support to the armed forces, environmental regulation, environmental cleanup and restoration, and emergency services. The division's civil works program includes management of 97 Corps lakes, on whose shores are located 660 Corps-managed recreation areas that receive 23 percent of all Corps visitors. The division manages the infrastructure for more than 20 percent of U.S. waterborne commerce on several of the nation's principal inland waterways and deep-draft shipping channels. Moreover, the division operates 18 hydropower projects and dozens of flood control projects throughout the Southwest.


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