The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has announced the selection of Jude T. Harrington as the new operations manager for the Raystown Lake Project.

For Sean Dawson, personal connections have been the driving force throughout his four years as Baltimore District’s Value Engineer. It’s these connections, problem-solving skills and dedication that made Dawson the recipient of the Army Corps’ 2019 Value Engineer Professional of the Year award.

Within this edition, we highlight the near-completion of the Secure Administrative/Operations Facility on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for our Intelligence partners; water safety outreach at our lakes; and using the latest technologies to find buried munitions in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, and the Maryland Port Administration have signed a Design Agreement that allows for the next steps in restoring two severely degraded islands in the Chesapeake Bay.

Attendees recognized 50 years of flood risk management and honored Pfc. Foster Joseph Sayers, the dam's namesake. Sayers, a U.S. Army machine gunner and former resident of Centre County, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1945 for his heroic actions in France during WWII.

For the past 25 years, the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island has built island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1994, Baltimore District and its partners have worked to restore remote island habitat by beneficially using dredged material at Poplar Island.