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2013 – ACEC Honor Award

Wallace Montgomery: ACEC Honor Award

Rehabilitation of Devil’s Backbone Dam

Wallace Montgomery awarded 2013 ACEC Honor Award for Rehabilitation of Devil’s Backbone Dam.   Project located on Antietam Creek several miles south of Hagerstown in Washington County, Maryland.  This is one of the few remaining original dams from the height of Washington County’s flour production days of the early 19th century.  WM was selected to rehabilitate the dam.  The goal was to provide a cost effective, environmentally sound and historically sensitive solution for the dam.