Alex Baldowski, a Baltimore District civil engineer and former Levee Safety Program manager, explains the purpose behind an annual exercise at the site of the 17th Street closure, a post-and-panel structure in the Potomac Park Levee System along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., September 25, 2024. The Potomac Park Levee System project's most visible component, the closure at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue (completed in 2013) can be fully closed in preparation for a high water event. This District of Columbia portion of the larger Washington, D.C., Flood Risk Management Project is federally operated and maintained by the National Park Service and was designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. (U.S. Army...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, and Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) signed an agreement that will initiate the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Backup Water Supply Feasibility Study aimed at developing coordinated and implementable solutions that ensure abundant water supply, including the identification of a secondary water source and additional water storage capability in the Washington...
The Baltimore District, Survey/Debris Section is replacing the approximately 50-year old timber pier at Fort McHenry with a pier of a similar footprint but to be made of concrete instead of timber. The new pier is intended to last another 40+ years to service the Survey Vessel CATLETT (60ft survey catamaran) as well as the Debris Vessel Reynolds and her soon to be replacement (~2025).
In the waterways of Maryland's Eastern Shore, the hard-working crew of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dredge MURDEN navigate their way through the shallow water, cleaning up the channels near Ocean City, dredging the project inside what teams call the 'clam dock' or the 'inside projects.'
Washington Aqueduct crews have been conducting repairs and updates to sections of the utility's first conduit - commonly referred to as the "Old Conduit," — since November 2023.
The Old Conduit is a 12-mile-long circular tube structure carrying water from the Potomac River near Great Falls to the Dalecarlia Reservoir.
In 2014, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, in coordination with additional Chesapeake Bay Program partners including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR), Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VRMC), and several additional nonprofit organizations and academic institutions, committed to the restoration of oyster population and habitat in 10...
Atkisson Dam in Harford County, Maryland, was constructed in 1942 to provide water supply to Edgewood Arsenal, now known as Aberdeen Proving Ground. It was named after U.S. Army Col. E.J. Atkisson, commander of the First Gas Regiment during World War I and commander of Edgewood Arsenal from 1920 to 1923. Even in the development of the project in the 1940s, the environment, risk management and a systems approach were at the forefront of the...
