During World War I he served with the 23rd Engineers in France . He served in the Philippines from 1921 until 1923 and helped organize The 14th Engineer Regiment Philippine Scouts , largely composed of Filipino soldiers . He was the Corps of Engineers ' District Engineer in New Orleans during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 , and he helped coordinate federal relief efforts . Pick was named Missouri River Division Engineer in 1942 , and with William Glenn Sloan of the Bureau of Reclamation he co-wrote the Pick-Sloan Plan for controlling the water resources of the Missouri River Basin
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Lewis A. Pick