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  • July

    Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, center, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Commander Col. Andrew Baker, center left, sign an agreement for a $3 million feasibility study for the Birdsprings Flood-Risk Mitigation project June 1 in Window Rock, Arizona

    Navajo Nation signs feasibility agreement, recognizes the Navajo Silver Jackets

    WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Beneath the natural splendor of a sandstone arch, known as Window Rock, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Commander Col. Andrew Baker signed an agreement June 1 for a $3 million feasibility study.

  • September

    Chris Stanton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Silver Jackets Program manager, prepares written scenarios for a flood-response tabletop exercise in the Navajo Nation’s Birdsprings Chapter’s meeting hall May 30 in Birdsprings, Arizona.

    Planner of the Year: Chris Stanton

    Traveling throughout the Southwest, Christopher Stanton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District lead planner and Silver Jackets program manager, has built a professional reputation for dependability.

  • July

    From left to right: Jonathan Hallemeier, Alan Wells, Chris Stanton and Joel Pliskin of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Silver Jackets planning team, pose for a picture May 30 in Birdsprings, Arizona. The Birdsprings Chapter of the Navajo Nation hosted the inaugural flood-response tabletop exercise in partnership with the Silver Jackets. The Silver Jackets Program brings together local, tribal, state and federal agencies to collaboratively address flood risk and other natural hazards.

    Navajo Nation hosts USACE Silver Jackets for flood response training

    The Birdsprings Chapter of the Navajo Nation, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Silver Jackets program, hosted its inaugural virtual and in-person flood response tabletop exercise May 30 in Birdsprings, Arizona.

  • September

    Flooding in December 2010 resulted in the closure of roads in the Prado Dam basin.

    Silver Jackets comprise many agencies, one solution

    Los Angeles District Commander Col. Kirk Gibbs joined water resource agencies, led by the California Department of Water Resources, at a Sept. 9 signing ceremony here during the Floodplain Management Association’s annual conference to formally establish California as the 40th state to form a Silver Jackets program.