Proactive Strategy for Dredge-Ready Operation and Maintenance at Low-Use Navigation Projects

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note describes a collaborative strategy with a Federal navigation project sponsor for conducting operation and maintenance (O&M) dredging and disposal activities. A collaborative strategy increases opportunities for securing funding to conduct maintenance dredging and promotes responsiveness to local sponsor needs and capabilities. Dredge-ready or shovel-ready maintenance dredging plans compete well and may possibly be more competitive for future Federal funding presently unavailable through U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for low-use navigation projects. The governing criteria for obtaining Federal O&M funding to conduct routine dredging is based on commerce statistics. Typically, low-use navigation projects fall below a budgeted funding cutoff line, resulting in deferred maintenance that severely impacts local users and the associated economy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA522218

Entities

People

  • Hiram T. Arden
  • Nicholas C. Kraus

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Dredging
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Hydraulics
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Navigation
  • Open Water
  • Pipelines
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Water
  • Water Quality

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  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
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