Great River Environmental Action Team (GREAT II). Upper Mississippi River Guttenberg, Iowa to Saverton, Missouri Flood Plain Management Work Group. Appendix.

Abstract

The purpose of the GREAT II studies is to identify and resolve conflicts resulting from separate legislative actions of Congress which mandated that the Upper Mississippi River be managed in the national interest for commercial navigation and as a fish and wildlife refuge. The concept of the study originated from a need to coordinate the maintenance activities of a nine-foot navigation channel by the U.S. Corps of Engineers from Guttenberg, Iowa, to Saverton, Missouri, with other river uses. Great ii was founded because of increasing concern by conservationists and the general public over the lack of information available about the impacts of U.S. Corps of Engineers' channel maintenance activities on many key resources of the river. The scope of the GREAT II study is directed toward developing a river system management plan incorporating total river resource requirements. GREAT II was organized early in fiscal year 1977 (October, 1976 through September, 1977) and is studying the river from Guttenberg, Iowa, to Saverton, Missouri.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA098262

Entities

People

  • Mark Laustrup

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Engineers
  • Flood Plains
  • Maintenance
  • Mississippi
  • Mississippi River
  • Missouri
  • Navigation
  • Rivers
  • Wildlife

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering