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  • December

    Illinois Waterway Maintenance Crew members, Craig Williams, Cory Bowen and Mark Hanson remove the pintle ball and bushing from the lower right sector gate at T.J. O'Brien Lock.

    Sector Gates Raised After 35 Years

    For the first time in 35 years, the 255,000-pound sector gates at the Thomas J. (T.J.) O’Brien Lock and Dam are being raised and repaired as part of a critical maintenance project designed to rehabilitate the 54-year-old facility. T.J. O’Brien Lock and Dam is a unit of the Illinois Waterway Navigation System and is located at the entrance to Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Basil Meyer, construction representative at the Far East District Seoul Project office, has worked with the district since 2003 and has overseen projects at installations across the Republic of Korea.

    Spotlight: Basil Meyer

    Basil Meyer, construction representative at the Seoul Project office, has engineering in his
  • Philip Siu is a district intern from the Department of the Army internship program. This program gives interns the opportunity to understand the various roles played within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    District intern program sets new employees on right path

    The Department of the Army internship program gives interns the opportunity to understand the
  • USACE Baltimore chief of operations, receives his retirement certificate from Col. Trey Jordan, USACE Baltimore District commander, after 28 years of federal service alongside his family Dec. 16.

    Operations Chief Robert Pace retires after 28 years of federal service

    More than 40 years ago, Robert Pace was a graduate student doing fieldwork in the waterways near
  • NORFOLK, VA. -- Edward Burr was Norfolk's sixth commander. While in command of the Norfolk U.S. Engineers Office, Capt. Edward Burr oversaw improvements to the inland water route (Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal) from Norfolk, Virginia to Albemarle Sound, North Carolina. These improvements included logging and dredging operations on the North Landing River, as well as straightening the river and making it 80 feet wide and 9 feet deep. The Norfolk Office also removed multiple sunken vessels near Thimble Shoals and off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia. The Norfolk staff performed a preliminary examination of the harbor at Petersburg,Va. and the Appomattox River, and found the plan to divert the waters of the old North Chanel above Petersburg to prevent shoaling of the harbor and navigable channel not worthy of improvement.

    Norfolk District 135: Edward Burr

    Edward Burr served as the sixth commander of the Norfolk U.S. Engineers Office. While in command, oversaw improvements to the inland water route (Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal) from Norfolk, Virginia to Albemarle Sound, North Carolina. These improvements included logging and dredging operations on the North Landing River, as well as straightening the river and making it 80 feet wide and 9 feet deep.