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  • July

    Meadville Mayor Jaime Kinder gives a speech during Woodcock Creek Lake’s golden jubilee celebration in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, July 14, 2023. Community leaders and Corps of Engineers employees gathered on a summer morning to celebrate Woodcock Creek Dam’s 50th anniversary. The corps built Woodcock Creek Dam to reduce floods along the French Creek, saving communities such as Saegertown and Meadville from catastrophic flooding year after year and has prevented more than $38 million in flood damages since its construction in 1973. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Andrew Byrne)

    Woodcock Creek Lake celebrates Golden Jubilee

    “We lived with floods, pretty much every year.” That was the reality for Saegertown Borough Manager Charles Lawrence and many others living in the wake of the frequently flooding French Creek before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District built Woodcock Creek Lake Dam.
  • Col. John Lloyd, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh, addressed more than 150 community members at the visitor center reopening ceremony at the Hannibal Lock and Dam on the Ohio River.

    Hannibal Locks and Dam Visitor Center reopens

    With the snip of a ribbon and a rotation of a turnstile, the Hannibal Locks and Dam Visitor Center

  • June

    In the presence of family, friends and coworkers, Lt. Col. Christopher Riemer, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District deputy commander, bids farewell to his 20-plus year military career at a retirement luncheon, June 13. During the luncheon, held at the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, Pa., Riemer received his retirement certificate and numerous awards from Col. Bernard Lindstrom and other district leadership.

    District bids farewell to its deputy

    After more than 20 years of service, Lt. Col. Christopher Riemer, Pittsburgh District deputy commander, bids farewell during a retirement ceremony, June 13.