November 15, 2015
2016 Handshake Partnership Recipients
The attached memorandum announces the successful recipients of FY 2016 Handshake Partnership Program funding. This program continues to forge important new relationships and open new paths in partnering. Thanks you for your many worthy nominations from across the nation. It was a very difficult competition and the final selectees came from a good cross-section of our national program: ten states and eleven Corps districts are represented among the sixteen recipients.

Please join me in congratulating the selected recipients, which include Perry Lake; Big Hill Lake; Tioga/Cowanesque Lakes; DeGray Lake; Beech Fork Lake; Stockton Lake; W Kerr Scott Reservoir; Loyalhanna Lake; Hannibal Lake; West Point Lake; Lake Superior; Lake Washington Ship Canal; Carlyle Lake; Milford Lake; and Lake Lanier.

Thanks again for your many worthwhile nominations from across the country and congratulations again to our final recipients! Please contact Mr. Allen Gwinn at (814) 658-6810, or allen.gwinn@usace.army.mil, should you have any questions or need more information.

Essayons!
Best,
Edward E. Belk, Jr PE

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