 Also in 1905, he supervised design and construction of a $150,000 project at a powder depot in Dover, New Jersey, returning to Washington, DC, in 1906 to continue work as a consulting engineer on the Canal and the Panama Canal Locks.He left the Army Corps in 1907 to become the division engineer and later the design engineer for the New York Board of Water Supply, where his responsibilities included design and construction projects for the Catskill water system.In 1910, the Albany Society of Civil Engineers published his work, "The Design of Masonry Dams."