Brendin Ailles, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Seattle District employee on a detail with the district's emergency management branch, shares how he was first introduced to USACE as a child and shares an update on the levee rehabilitation work he's doing now, in Skagit County, Wash., Aug. 12, 2026.
Public Law 84-99 authorizes USACE to repair or restore eligible flood risk reduction works damaged by recent flooding.
Repairs to the North Fork Skagit River levee system to provide 50-year flood protection for residential and agricultural lands in the Skagit Delta in the city of Mount Vernon, Washington, begins today.
