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Digging Deep - Understanding The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento DistrictS1E6 – How To Fix A Dam Mike Ruthford is a lead engineer/technical lead with the Sacramento District’s Engineering Division and Dam Safety Production Center team. His primary focus is on what USACE calls “non-routine dam safety projects” including the District’s Isabella Dam Safety Modification Project in Kern County, California, a $650 million dam remediation program to improve flood protection for downstream

Digging Deep - Understanding The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E5 – Helping Smaller Communities With Big Projects Rachael Orellana is the Flood Risk Program Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Planning Division and oversees the District’s growing Flood Plain Management Services; Planning Assistance to States; and the California, Nevada, and Utah Silver Jackets teams. Her program includes more than 25 active projects with a portfolio valued at

Digging Deep - Understanding The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E4 – How To Be A Civilian Engineer Sacramento District’s Rick Poeppelman has carved out a nice career of being a civilian engineer in an Army engineering organization. He heads the district’s Engineering Division, which includes a host of disciplines, including structural, environmental, and civil engineering, as well as geology, project and program management, and a whole lot more. Poeppelman joins Digging Deep

Digging Deep - Understanding The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E3 – Explore & Discover USACE Recreation Sacramento District’s Taylor Saia holds a unique position within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – not that she’s the only one within USACE that does what she does, but rather it’s a position most often associated with a different agency all together. Ms. Saia joins Digging Deep to fill us in on how an agency focused on dams, levees, and waterways happened to get into the

Digging Deep - Understanding The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E2 – Planning for Sacramento’s Next Big Storm Sacramento District Planning Division Chief Ms. Alicia Kirchner leads one of the largest planning divisions within the USACE enterprise, responsible for providing planning expertise to help identify and solve water resource problems for the district. Ms. Kirchner joins Digging Deep to help us better understand the need for Sacramento region flood protection projects

Digging Deep: Understanding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E1b - It Starts With The Commander Sacramento District Commander Col. James Handura provides a brief history on Army and Civil Engineers and gives an overview of how his District serves the public and the greater USACE mission. Plus he reveals the talent that he'd most like to have. COL Handura's reading list: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Radical

Digging Deep: Understanding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District S1E1a - Introduction Simple, informal conversations with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District leaders and team members designed to help you better understand what USACE is and what it does – from the District’s mission, to the various programs that contribute to that mission; from the District’s projects that serve the public, to the team members behind the projects; from USACE and project history to