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Robert Diaz of Lincoln, with New Horizons Enterprises, removes water in a classroom and barracks area at the training site. Cleanup is underway using $4 million in emergency funds. A request had been submitted to rebuild; the funds would come from federal tax dollars.
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Col. Shane M. Martin, construction and facilities management officer at the Nebraska National Guard, gives a tour of the flood damage at the Guard’s Camp Ashland training site. On the right is a new body of water created by the flooding.
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Col. Shane Martin surveys the damage. At top, sand is left after waters receded. At right, Martin and Maj. Scott Ingalsbe near erosion along the Platte River. Training has continued at facilities in Hastings and Mead, but they are too small or not configured properly to work long term.
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Camp Ashland begins to recover after flood
The Nebraska National Guard has submitted a bill for the reconstruction of the flood-prone Camp Ashland training site on the Platte River, in Ashland, Nebraska.
Col. Shane Martin on planks that were damaged by floodwaters at Memorial Hall at Camp Ashland, the Nebraska National Guard’s training site.
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Col. Shane M. Martin, construction and facilities management officer at the Nebraska National Guard, shows the erosion caused by flooding at Camp Ashland.
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Robert Diaz of Lincoln, with New Horizons Enterprises, removes water in a classroom and barracks area at the training site. Cleanup is underway using $4 million in emergency funds. A request had been submitted to rebuild; the funds would come from federal tax dollars.
- BRENDAN SULLIVAN/WORLD-HERALD
Col. Shane M. Martin, construction and facilities management officer at the Nebraska National Guard, gives a tour of the flood damage at the Guard’s Camp Ashland training site. On the right is a new body of water created by the flooding.
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Sand is left after waters receded.
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Crews fill the area around Camp Ashland's breached levee with dirt on Wednesday.
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Flood debris along the shore of the Platte River near Camp Ashland.
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Josh Gropp, left, and Robert Diaz of New Horizons Enterprises remove water that was used in flood cleanup in a building at Camp Ashland.
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Col. Shane Martin surveys the damage. At top, sand is left after waters receded. At right, Martin and Maj. Scott Ingalsbe near erosion along the Platte River. Training has continued at facilities in Hastings and Mead, but they are too small or not configured properly to work long term.
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Col. Shane Martin surveys the damage.
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The flood swept away a running trail at Camp Ashland along the Platte River. The Salt Creek also overflowed during last month's record flooding, so water poured into the base from multiple directions.
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A caution sign is displayed above a floor in Memorial Hall at Camp Ashland that was damaged in the flooding. Two feet of water inundated the 90-year-old building, causing $400,000 in damage.
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Larry Vrtiska, environmental program manager at the Nebraska Army National, uses an Argo ATV to get through deep sand at Camp Ashland that the floodwaters left behind.
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Col. Shane M. Martin, left, and Maj. Scott Ingalsbe during a tour of flood damage at Camp Ashland.
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Workers hope to remove drywall and insulation at Camp Ashland before mold grows.
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Camp Ashland’s concrete arena. A plan to rebuild Camp Ashland includes constructing buildings on stilts. Buildings now on stilts stayed dry, even during the March flooding, Col. Shane Martin said.
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Col. Shane M. Martin, left, and Maj. Scott Ingalsbe of the Nebraska National Guard in an outdoor arena at flooded Camp Ashland that seats 3,000 people.
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