Engineer Research and Development Center

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The Engineer Research and Development Center or ERDC is a United States government funded military base located at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The base was set up after the 1927 flood disaster of the Mississippi River. The base is staffed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With half a billion dollars of funding, their job is to research methods of flood control and prevention, along with other waterways technology and engineering.

[edit] List of ERDC Facilities

Coastal and Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, New Hampshire

Construction Engineering Research Lab, Champaign, Illinois

Environmental Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Geotechnical and Structures Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Information Technology Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Topographic Engineering Center, Alexandria, Virginia

[edit] External links

• ERDC Homepage
• Army engineers webpage
• Survey number HAER MS-2 - Waterways Experiment Station, Hydraulics Laboratory, Halls Ferry Road, 2 miles south of I-20, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

• Engineer Research and Development Center is at coordinates 32°17′59″N 90°51′51″W / 32.2995921, -90.8642709 (Engineer Research and Development Center)Coordinates: 32°17′59″N 90°51′51″W / 32.2995921, -90.8642709 (Engineer Research and Development Center)
• Waterways Experiment Station sub-office Clinton, Mississippi (Mississippi Basin Model) ( 32°18′29″N, 90°18′33″W)