Monday, 5 March 2012

Hurricane-delayed projects help engineers

A hurricane slowed the projects down, but it couldn't stop the Toledo, Ohio-based 983rd Engineer Battalion from completing the mission.

Between July 10 and Aug. 11 of last year, two rotations totaling more than 100 Reservists from the 983rd set up base camp in Stark County, Ohio, faced with two distinct construction projects: adding a retaining wall, two shelters and an additional parking tier to the parking lot at the Wilderness Center in Wilmot, and clearing a six-mile trail in the Canal Fulton.

According to Wilderness Center Development Director Howard S. Rubin, Jr. this is the third year of construction projects on the 573-acre property, but the first year that the …

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