Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District | 02.22.2019
High winds and strong waves made winter construction difficult.
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District | 01.16.2019
Work complete on the Sictuate Harbor Jetty in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard East | 12.24.2018
Coast Guard Station Little Creek crew members pray at the bedside of Robert McCall at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 24, 2018. McCall sustained severe injuries, including facial trauma, broken bones, and internal bleeding, after his 23-foot boat crashed into the Little Creek jetty, Dec. 23, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard East | 12.24.2018
Robert McCall's 23-foot boat stranded on the rocks of Little Creek Jetty in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Dec. 23, 2018. Four passengers survived the crash and were rescued by a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Little Creek. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Seaman Loren Greenlund)...
Photo by Sarah Lazo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District | 06.21.2018
Eddie Somers, president, Smith Island United, signs a piece of jetty stone celebrating the completion of two jetties and a stone sill as part of a navigation improvement project at Rhodes Point on Smith Island, Maryland, at the conclusion of a ceremony with federal, state and local officials held at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland, June 21, 2018. The stone was placed at the Smith......
Photo by Sarah Lazo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District | 06.21.2018
Dual jetties and stone sill as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers navigation improvement project at Rhodes Point on Smith Island, Maryland, June 21, 2018. The jetties were completed in June 2018 and prevent shoaling in the channel and reduce the continual need for dredging. The construction of a stone sill was also completed along 850 feet of eroding shoreline south of the mouth of......
Photo by Sarah Lazo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District | 06.21.2018
From left, Eddie Somers, president, Smith Island United; Randy Laird, president, Somerset County Commissioners; Mark Belton, Maryland Natural Resources secretary; Charles Halm, director, Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Baltimore Field Office; and Col. Ed Chamberlayne, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, present a......
Photo by Sarah Lazo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District | 06.21.2018
Col. Ed Chamberlayne, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District commander, signs a piece of jetty stone celebrating the completion of two jetties and a stone sill as part of a navigation improvement project at Rhodes Point on Smith Island, Maryland, at the conclusion of a ceremony with federal, state and local officials held at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland, June 21, 2018.......